If you want to read a romance novel, not a mystery, then you may enjoy this book more than I did. The plot and its resolution defy logic. Worse, the heroine seems to jump back and forth between the centuries in her acceptance and rejection of cultural norms for women. Sometimes she is a Victorian romantic, yet at other times she is a woman of the 21st century in her opinions, decisions, and ideas. It was terribly inconsistent. I know complex characters are unpredictable but this character as well as the storyline just didn't add up for me.