Ritu Mukerji

Mystery Fiction 2022 | 287 pages

It is 1875 in Philadelphia and the recently established Women's Medical College is the employer of our main character, Dr. Lydia Weston, where she is a Professor of Medicine as well as an attending physician.  Of course, women physicians are rare at this time, suspect, held as incredulous, disrespected.  When a patient of Dr. Weston's, Anna, goes missing and then is believed to be found dead, Lydia becomes an invaluable source of information to the detectives working the case.

On page 150, a twist occurs that I did not see coming!

I love Dr. Weston, and her bright, smart, snappy, assertive personality.  I keep wanting to see what realization or insight she would find next.

This is the Deschutes Public Library community read for 2025 and, therefore, has nothing offensive in it and is a bit saccharin.  But/and I found it an enjoyable mystery, imbued with feminist sensibilities.

I recommend it for a fun, pleasurable, easy read.

April 2025