A joyous novel with the Brontë sisters as amateur detectives, read in a few fun hours. Their characters are clear and bold, echoing the different styles of their books. The claustrophobic isolation and boredom of their lives before they become "detectors" is well drawn, I have always wondered if we would have their novels had TV been invented in the 1840's. The biographical details are used to good effect, although we are told once too many times that Branwell has red hair.
The story moves at a rapid pace and contains many of the features of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, mysterious strangers, figures in the attic, passion, madness, and fire; its not a pastiche, but I had fun spotting how this "real life" made it into the sisters novels. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and am hoping this will be a series.