Can't Wait Wednesday: The Whitechapel Widow by Emily Organ (A Emma Langley Victorian Mystery Book One)

 

For this week's Can't Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, I'm featuring, The Whitechapel Widow, by Emily Organ. It is book one of the new Emma Langley Victorian Mystery Series and looks like a book for fans of Anne Perry. It is a little edgier than the average cozy and considering it involves the time and era of Jack the Ripper I'm not sure you'd call it a cozy. But the mystery looks intriguing as a woman tries to get to the bottom of who murdered her husband In Whitechapel London. It does say in the comments it is a clean mystery so nothing too disturbing here. I think I might have to start this series. 

I hope you've found a book you can't wait for this week. Happy reading ya'll!

Historical Mystery

March 27, 2025

Book Description courtesy of GoodReads:

London hunts the Ripper. A widow hunts her husband's killer.

London, 1888. While Jack the Ripper's reign of terror grips the city, Emma Langley's world shatters when her husband is found murdered in Whitechapel. But grief is quickly overshadowed by a startling discovery. William Langley was not the man she thought she knew.

As panic fills London's streets, Emma delves into her husband's secret life, uncovering a web of lies that stretches from glittering society drawing rooms to the seedy gambling dens of the East End. Aided by Penny Green, a former reporter with a nose for trouble, Emma follows a trail of blackmail and corruption.

But exposing her husband's killer could make her the next victim and in the shadows of gaslit streets, a murderer waits, ready to strike again…

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Never Reviewed (but maybe I should!)

 

This week's theme for Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is "Books I Never Reviewed." Wow....that is hard to narrow down to just ten. My blog is only three years old so there are plenty to choose from. Sometimes I think of reviewing my favorites that I read long ago but is that cheating when you run a book blog? I mean, do I have to have read it that week for it to count? It's an interesting thought. Go back and write reviews for books I read five years ago? Even with Outlander I re-read them before I reviewed them.

Anyway here are ten books I really enjoyed but haven't reviewed. Maybe I should! Happy reading ya'll!

**No covers displayed due to time, but the titles are linked to Goodreads if you want more information on one of these amazing books!

1. The Murder On the Links by Agatha Christie (Cozy Mystery)

2. The Six Wives of Henry the VIII by Alison Weir (History- British Biography)

3. Highland Spirits by Amanda Scott (Historical Scottish Romance)

4. Leaving Ireland by Ann Moore (Historical Irish Romance)

5. Poldark by Winston Graham (Historical Fiction Cornwall)

6. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Historical Fiction Russia )

7. Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon (Historical Fiction/Romance)

8. Celia Garth by Gwen Bristow (Historical Fiction set in Charleston)

9. Queen of This Realm by Jean Plaidy (Historical Biography of Elizabeth II)

10. Into Africa by Martin Dugard (History- Stanley and Livingstone's discovery)

Stacking the Shelves #46

 

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Reading Reality. It's a place to showcase any books I have purchased, borrowed, or been lucky enough to have been given an advance copy of. Hope you find something that looks interesting to you or that makes you remember a favorite book you need to finish. Enjoy your reading this week!

Borrowed from Libby App:

I waited over a month for this one! I was excited to see it finally available. This author is very popular and this is her latest. Set in two different time periods it's not a novel I'd usually read but it involves Egyptian archaeology, museums, and a mystery so it looks intriguing. I'm on chapter 5 already and still hooked so I'm hoping I'm not disappointed. Looking at her other books I'm not sure if I'd like the settings but if this one is well written I might give them a try. It jumps back and forth between two main characters, Charlotte and Annie. Charlotte lives and works in 1970's New York and Annie lives in the same era. But we will be transported back to the 1930's to hear Charlotte's story. Traveling to Egypt something sinister happens and we will spend the book finding out what.

Purchase for Kindle: $1.99 on sale 

This is a book I will flip through and read when I need a break and just want to read a random chapter. It details all the major Queens of Scotland from Lady MacBeth to Anne. I'll just probably read it from week to week slowly and not necessarily in order. But that is nice as novels can sometimes take up so much of my time I don't read as much non fiction. This is in keeping with my goal to change that this year. I don't know a lot about the Queens of Scotland so I'm looking forward to a mini biography of each one.

Borrowed from Kindle Unlimited: 

This is book one in a mystery series I'd not seen before. It involves a sixteenth century Scottish lawyer, Hew Cullen, who is trying to solve a case of the murder of a teenager and accusations of misconduct by a Professor at the St. Andrews University. I love books set in Scotland and I love mysteries even more so I'm hoping this one is good. There are four more in the series too if I am wanting to continue. 

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