I quite enjoyed reading this. It's short and fast paced, and the audiobook is well performed. Mary is a likeable enough main character, although I found her a little bland. I'm also not in the YA demographic and I do think might have enjoyed this a bit more when I was younger and better able to relate to her as a 17-year-old.

I've been frustrated lately with books set in England and written by American authors. This isn't the worst of them by any means, but again there are things making it through the editing process that really should have been caught (off the top of my head, "pants" for trousers and using kilometres instead of miles). In addition to that, it felt like the book couldn't quite decide how modern to be in how it presented sex workers and sexual assault. The terminology and attitudes didn't feel internally consistent to me.

I would have liked more mystery in the mystery. This was very much an "it's obviously that guy" for me, and I would have loved to be surprised by an actual twist rather than just frustrated that Mary seemed to turn off her critical faculties at times for the convenience of the plot.

I received a complimentary copy of this book for review. All opinions are my own.

This is a fun young adult, murder mystery book. I was hoping it would be more detailed and more like the Jack the Ripper storyline. I enjoyed the WWII time period but I felt it was very surface level. If you are truly a young adult, or haven't read as many books in this genre, you would probably enjoy it more than I did.