This was a good cosy mystery up until the last third-ish. The writing isn’t the best and the characters are kinda dull, but the story itself is pretty good - even if it very quickly weers off the suffragette theme it was initially sold as and goes straight into being about a little bit of everything.

Set around 1920 the story initially centers Iris, a young journalist who learns that her suffragette mother’s death may not be as simple as Iris has always thought. This is followed by an election, some attempts at journalism and romance and a bunch of sleuthing. There is also a new death and a very, very lengthy trial that ends very, very suddenly, at which point I had pretty much disconnected from the story.

I didn’t hate it. I also didn’t love it.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me an ARC in exchange for my honest review.