This is my third Littlewood/ Elwood and so far my favourite. I enjoyed the Victorian Yorkshire setting and the language felt fitting of the period, though there are repeated references to Wuthering Heights which only reminded me of Brontë’s superior Gothic tale.

The mystery was compelling, a true page-turner. It’s clear early on that the narrator is perhaps a poor judge of character, blinded by Victorian societal expectations. This makes him a potentially unreliable narrator and one fitting for the period given his repetitive insistence of seeing “reason.” However, some may him frustrating. I sometimes wished we could hear from one of the female character’s point of view.