All in Her Hands by Audrey Blake rejoins Dr Nora Beady now Gibson as she, husband Dr Daniel Gibson and adoptive father Dr Horace Croft juggle patients with the running of Great Queen Street Hospital when a difficult case leads Nora to realize that midwives were being pushed out of birthing rooms by arrogant male doctors. As she takes on this fight against the belief that only men can practice medicine, old trauma resurfaces as illness plagues London.
I loved this book, as I did the first two. Stories of women breaking through the patriarchy, glass ceilings and fighting for their place alongside men makes for great historical fiction and non-fiction. Dr. Nora Beady is exactly the type of headstrong, determined, badass heroine to follow on this inspiring if sometimes disheartening story.
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How to Get Away with Murder by Rebecca Philipson follows former Scotland Yard detective Sam as she tries to get her life together post mental breakdown. When she stumbles across the murder scene of a young girl, Charlotte, Sam decides it's time to be a cop again. Sam is assigned a small task force investigating a book left at the scene, How to Get Away with Murder by Denver Brady, a how-to for aspiring serial killers.
This book was interesting, and the premise unique to me as it’s a book within a book. The killer’s pov are chapters of the book told as Sam reads them. That being said, the ending was kind of underwhelming to me.
