Thank you to Net Galley and Grove Atlantic for the e-ARC in exchange for my honest review.  Many know that I've long been obsessed with the Lizzie Borden story.  I've read literally everything written on it, and even spent a night in the Bed and Breakfast that was the Borden home.  I crossed my fingers AND toes hoping to get an advance of this one, just because I didn't want to wait. That said, I was initially having a difficult time with this book, because it wasn't matching the history as I knew it, and I kept getting tripped up.  I then let that go, decided just to enjoy the writing and ended up liking it a great deal.  This title has a very surreal, dreamy quality about the writing.  Engrossing, and it thrills me to see this mystery still trendy, even today, so many years later.

This is a look at the famous Lizzie Borden murder case of 1892. There have been so many books written about this case, I wasn’t sure Schmidt would have anything new to add, and while the information about the crime is the same, she provides incredible detail and some interesting insight into the Borden family and their maid