A review by bookitalum
The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals by Michelle Morgan

3.0

I agree with other reviewers who have suggested the author’s so-called “scandals” were no more than the details of some commonplace and other less-common crimes of which she found information in archived newspapers and fleshed out with details from public records (a la census data). The stories are written well enough and with a clear goal of building suspense. However, the end of the book left me lacking, as though I had inadvertently missed the ‘good part.’ If you’re in between good reads and have interests in the Victorian age and the macabre, this will scratch the itch until you find another book. If you lack these interests, I suggest you skip it altogether.