Lawless & The Devil of Euston Square

This book took a little for me to get into it. The writing style of dividing the text into periods throughout one - two years was helpful. The intrigue did hold my attention. Once into it, I was drawn forward from page to page wondering what will happen next, who was good, who was diabolical. I am interested in reading his other two works about Lawless written in 2016 & 2017.

While I enjoyed the character of Campbell Lawless and the introduction to Miss Villiers I found the book overly long and a bit tedious. The author, William Sutton, did an excellent job of describing the lives of the "lower class" during the Victorian period. Also describing the changes that were occurring during that period. The story itself would have been better, for me, if the book were at least 100 pages shorter. It isn't that I don't recommend this - it is that this book wasn't really for me.

I normally enjoy all Victorian England mysteries, but not this one. Campbell Lawless is a wanna be, he gets involved in all sorts of messes. I did manage to read the whole but it was a long read.
***I received this book in exchange for an honest review***

The parent publisher for Lawless and the Devil of Euston Square is a well known UK sci-fi publisher I’ve worked with quite a bit. When I learned they were creating a new crime/mystery imprint, Exhibit A, I got really excited. This is the first of the new imprint’s novels that I’ve read and they nailed it. Lawless and the Devil of Euston Square is a Victorian police procedural, Book #1 of a new historical thriller series. Do you like Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes? This series has much of the same feel with an added Dickensian flavor. It’s all about the little grey cells, as Poirot would say. Sound interesting? Read the rest of my review at http://popcornreads.com/?p=6282.

This is a slow plodding story. At 506 pages, it is way to long. The characters were okay, nothing remarkable about them..I never finished the book.

Never received this book as I was listed to. So I contacted the person who was responsible for the giveaway and received an email saying that they were sorry and the book was going to be sent out. Never did receive it. I was really looking forward to it too...

Reviews:
The action moves with dizzying speed from the highest quarters in the land to the vilest slums and low dives of the teeming city. … Thoroughly enjoyable. Novelist Allan Massie, The Scotsman,

First-rate Victorian crime fiction. The Herald

Prose and interweaving plots built like wrought-iron Victorian follies … Genuinely funny. Michael Gardiner, Scotland on Sunday

A blast from the capital's past which brilliantly mirrors our own troubled and nervous times. … Challenging and supremely witty … Compelling, unpredictable and entertaining. Amazon Reviews

Shines in its evocation of Victorian London: a living, breathing, stinking beast of a city. The Book Bag