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A review by faysieh
The Case of the Missing Bride by Carmen Radtke
5.0
What a super story! I fairly flew through this and almost read it in one sitting.
The Artemis' Delight sails from Melbourne on its way to Canada with a stop at San Francisco.
On board, as 'agreed' stowaways, out of sight of the few gentlemen passengers, are 22 brides-to-be with their chaperone Matron, Mrs McKenzie.
Alyssa Chalmers is a different breed from the majority of the girls but all of them are orphaned and on their way to find husbands in a new land.
The characters, particularly Alyssa, Emma, Matron, Dr Mark Bryson, Mr Kendrick, Davies, Mr Wainwright and Captain Moore are amazingly well written characters and the history of the times, where women had no standing in society, is so well portrayed.
The descriptions of the ship's passage, a bout of sea -sickness and the lengths that have to be taken to escort the hidden 'cargo' are exceptionally good.
The only trouble is, one of the gentlemen passengers, keen to find out more about the steam engine, stumbles across a girl and then the secret is out.
Someone, but who, is writing entries in a diary, that are full of menace and potential mistreatment of the females on board.
And then Emma goes missing. Alyssa, Dr Bryson and Mr Kendrick combine forces and play amateur detectives in order to solve the mystery.
This is the first book I have read that Carmen Radtke has written and it definitely won't be the last!
The Artemis' Delight sails from Melbourne on its way to Canada with a stop at San Francisco.
On board, as 'agreed' stowaways, out of sight of the few gentlemen passengers, are 22 brides-to-be with their chaperone Matron, Mrs McKenzie.
Alyssa Chalmers is a different breed from the majority of the girls but all of them are orphaned and on their way to find husbands in a new land.
The characters, particularly Alyssa, Emma, Matron, Dr Mark Bryson, Mr Kendrick, Davies, Mr Wainwright and Captain Moore are amazingly well written characters and the history of the times, where women had no standing in society, is so well portrayed.
The descriptions of the ship's passage, a bout of sea -sickness and the lengths that have to be taken to escort the hidden 'cargo' are exceptionally good.
The only trouble is, one of the gentlemen passengers, keen to find out more about the steam engine, stumbles across a girl and then the secret is out.
Someone, but who, is writing entries in a diary, that are full of menace and potential mistreatment of the females on board.
And then Emma goes missing. Alyssa, Dr Bryson and Mr Kendrick combine forces and play amateur detectives in order to solve the mystery.
This is the first book I have read that Carmen Radtke has written and it definitely won't be the last!