This lively and well-researched debut introduces a charming historical series and an appealing fish-out-of-water sleuth who seeks independence and a career in an age when most women are bent on getting married...” 

—Library Journal (STARRED review), Debut Mystery of the Month

I really and truly could not put it down… Vatsal succeeds once again in fleshing out a strong-willed, ambitious, and thoroughly delightful young heroine..." 

—Susan Elia MacNeal,
New York Times-bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series