Length 384 pages
Format softcover
Published 2017
Series Kopp Sisters #3
My Copy provided by the publisher
Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions is a cozy historical crime fiction (think cozy mystery without the mystery).
Despite being the third book in the series, Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessionals reads well as a standalone. The main characters come with baggage but there's enough backstory included in the present day setting that the reader doesn't feel lost with what's happened in the previous books.
Constance is an interesting character and the author ensures she gets page time not only in relation to the passages involving the crimes but also in her personal setting, notably when her daughter runs away to join a stage show and the ensuing hunt to track her down. I did like the somewhat humorous aspect to this side show.
Set in 1916, the book provides insight into the laws of the time which seem ridiculous by modern standards, in particular two cases of young women who are charged for waywardness, incorrigibility and moral depravity. Whilst not much happens in this space from a crime perspective, the book delivers on character and charm.
My rating: 2.5/5, it was ok. I found the book more interesting than entertaining but that's more to do my reading tastes rather than the book itself.
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