RATING: GOOD
SPOILERS!!!
The ending was excellent in my opinion. During the funeral of Lizzie and Paul Kellett, Kate spots a woman with a child, and she manages to get her alone. It is Agnes's sister, Beatrice, and she says that her mother felt that she and her nephew should pay her respects to Lizzie Kellett, who had provided money for them all these years. Beatrice is angry because she thinks that Joshua let her sister down. Agnes died a couple of years later when she succumbed at work. Kate tells Beatrice that she believes that Joshua intended to go for her sister.
Later Kate goes to talk to the constable and tells him her theory that Joshua went to find Agnes in the munition factory when he heard about the explosions. Kate knows that there is an unidentified man, and she and Mitchell compare the report of the unidentified man and Joshua, and they discover that there are many similarities, and when they talk to his dentist, they realise that Joshua died in the explosions which lasted for many hours.
Mitchell is going to tell Evelyn and Kate feels it is her responsibility to tell Tabitha. When she tells her, the girl reacts angrily and even accuses Kate of reaching to conclusions because she has been unable to find out the truth. I think that Tabitha's attitude is unfair, especially when from the first she told Kate that she wanted the truth however difficult it was. Tabitha goes to be with her mother, and she wants her uncle Neville to be with them.
Kate goes to find Neville, but he is not in his house, and she starts to suspect something when she finds morphia in the medicine cupboard he had for his wife. The man is still in the mill, and Kate goes to find him. When she confronts him, telling him that she knows he killed Kellett, Neville tries to kill her by pushing from the edge into some loader. Thankfully, Sykes and Mitchell appear and stop him, and Neville claims that he was just helping Kate when she tripped and fell. When Kate says he is lying, Neville comes to her and she pulls out her leg and the man plunges down the ledge. Neville doesn't die, but is taken to hospital.
Kate goes home and her housekeeper says she should stay in bed, and she is glad to be able to rest. When she wakes up, she finds Evelyn there, and the woman wants her to say that Neville didn't try to kill her, nor did he kill Paul Kellett because the mill depends on him. Then Kate realises the truth all along. It was Evelyn who killed her husband, and Evelyn tell her that when she saw him flee, she went after him on her horse. Joshua told him that he was going after Agnes, and she grew so angry that she hit him with her crop, and her horse trampled over him. Evelyn claims that it was an accident, and she went to find Neville and Kellet, but when they returned, he was dead. And then they decided to conceal his death by taking him to the munition factory and leave his body there. Kellet used his knowledge to blackmail Neville.
Neville dies, and Kate decides not to say a word. Tabitha married and sent her a check for her services, but she didn't contact her again, which I think was unfair from her part. Kate also learns that Tabitha and Hector sold the mill. And at the end of the book Dr Grainger comes to Kate, hinting that he likes her and wants her to come to the Lake District with him, but Kate refuses. It is true that she feels drawn to him after Gerald's death, but things are complicated, especially after all that has happened, so she turns him down.
I enjoyed this firs book in the series, and I am definitely keep reading the series.
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