The Sisterhood by Tasha Alexander

The Sisterhood
by Tasha Alexander

ISBN-13: 9781250374981
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Released: September 23, 2025

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
London, 1907: When the Season's most accomplished and elegant debutante, Victoria Goldsborough, collapses and dies at her engagement ball, the great and good of London Society prepare to mourn the tragic loss of an upstanding young woman. But all is not what it seems, and after a toxic beverage is revealed to be the cause of death, the king himself instructs Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves to unearth the truth.

Who would want to harm one of the most popular women of the year? Is it her fiancé with whom she had an unusually brief courtship; a rival for his affections bitter at being cast aside; her best friend who is almost certainly hiding a secret from Colin and Emily; a disappointed suitor with a hidden gambling habit; or a notorious jewel thief who has taken a priceless tiara from the Goldsborough home? When a second debutante succumbs to poison, the race is on to find a ruthless killer.

Emily and Colin’s investigation leads to a centuries old tomb in the center of London with a mysterious link to another death dating back to Roman times and the violent reign of Boudica, ancient Britain's fearsome warrior queen.


My Review:
The Sisterhood is a mystery set in 1907 in England. There's also a secondary story going on in 60 that tells about Boudica's revolt, which is only linked to the main story because someone found a tomb they thought might be Boudica's. This book is the 19th in a series. You can understand this book without reading the previous ones, and this story didn't spoil the mysteries of the previous books.

Historical and setting details were woven into the story without slowing the pacing. The main characters were engaging and reacted realistically to events. I was mildly frustrated that Emily and Colin didn't ask very good questions and went off on tangents, discovering a lot of information relating to possible motives while dropping the question of who could have given the poison. When they finally asked the right questions and got proof of whodunit, the reader wasn't allowed to know whodunit until the reveal (though I had finally worked out whodunit shortly before). The 'why' for the first murder was explained, but details about the second murder were sparse and seemed to conflict with some previous information on timing. The story ended abruptly, leaving a lot of loose ends.

There were no sex scenes, though married sex was implied. There were only a few uses of bad language. Overall, I'd recommend this mystery, but I enjoyed this author's earlier mysteries better.


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