A review by slc333
Brighton Belle by Sara Sheridan

2.0

2.5 stars. I enjoyed the setting of post WW2 Brighton and I liked how Mirabelle's curiosity gradually draws her out to the depression she was in after her lover's death. It was on track for a 3 star rating when two things happened near the end

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Sandor dies. It was completely unnecessary to the progression of the story, and so random with nothing to do with the actual mystery that is the subject of the book. The second thing was the very odd final villain reveal/capture. We spend the whole book with Lisabetta & her gang as the villains only to have most of them dead with no confrontation and Mirabelle's dramatic capture of the bad guy being of someone who had not been in the story AT ALL until this point and who only came to murder the original villain for killing her husband.

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