The Unpicking by Moore, Donna

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Author: Moore, DonnaHistorical mysteriesPublished on 27 October 2023 by Fly on the Wall Press in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 290 pages131 x 199 x 23 | 248g
I had read enough mystery stories to know that girls who went out to meet strangers at night never came to a good endStirling, 1877. Lillias Gilfillan, a recently orphaned girl of sixteen, falls in love and elopes with a man who sees her as wealthy and naive: a little boat without its oars. In a sea of rising debt and deception, Lillias must learn quickly, or drown.Glasgow, 1894. Clementina knows little mercy living in a home for wayward girls. With the Jingling Devil always lurking in the shadows and a child growing inside her, can she outrun him and save her best friend in the process?Glasgow, 1919. Mabel is one of the first policewomen in Glasgow, on a mission to find a murderer. In doing so, she finds a web of corruption and now the Jingling Devil wants her dead.The Unpicking spans three generations of hysterical women who take on systemic corruption and injustice, despite all odds.