I had a hard time getting into this book. The similarity of the names Miss Clay and Miss Clyde confused me in the early part of the book. Grave robbing was an interesting concept for the story. I found the working and living conditions of the mill girls shocking. Josie Clay was an excellent female protagonist who a doctor attempted to kill so he could use her body for experiments and as she lived in a boarding house for factory workers. I admired her dedication to her father. The factory manager, Braham Terrance, is a kind man who is attracted to Josie. The Yellow Lantern is based on strange-but-true history. I received a complimentary copy of this book from Barbour Publishing and NetGalley and was under no obligation to post a review.

I thank you for the opportunity to read and review this book. This author was new to me and I was not let down. It was a great story and very well written. The characters were easy to relate to and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I highly recommend this to everyone!!

The "Yellow Lantern" by Angie Sicken was amazing and as good as the other books books in the "True Crime" series.

The story was a page turner from the very beginning. The story is set in 1824 Massachusetts where bodies are stolen from grave for shady medical reasons. I had heard about "body snatcher, but in the back of my mind I thought no way.. What would you do if you wake up and you are informed that you were pronounced dead or you realize that a family members body was stolen in the name of medical experiments. The main character Jessie Clayton was very likable! She spend her time trying to figure out what is happening and how to get out of the mess her life was put in.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good mystery and suspense book.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from netgalley and publishing company for a honest review. All thoughts and opinions are mine.

This series of books is incredible! Each author has given us a well written mystery/ thriller, yet they are non-fiction. It is sometimes hard to believe that people could treat each other this way, yet this is what the news is made of every night. Angie Dicken took an old, old story of murder and blackmail and made it exciting and interesting in today's climate of mass shootings and crimes against each other. Read this book...read the series. You won't be sorry.

The Yellow Lantern by Angie Dicken

The Yellow Lantern is based on a true story

I found this book confusing and could not follow the story very well. There were too many characters, some with very similar names which I found confusing.

I would like to thank Net Galley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is the third book in these series and it's not my favorite.I have heard of grave robbing,body snatchers and the horrors of the mills so I enjoy that aspect despite its macabre nature.I never connected with the characters and the middle slowed down and I had to force my self to read through it.

True crime has always fascinated me although I don't get a chance to read it as much as I used to.
This series of books Barbour has out, True Colors: Historical Stories of American Crime fascinates me and each story in the series is based off of a truth.
This story really fascinated me in the sense it's different than most stories I read in it's topic coverage. It deals with grave robbers, how's that for putting it out there?
I love historical stories, they are my favorite but I do love reading topics that are not widely covered and this is right up my alley.
I am hoping to read more nonfiction books soon to better my understanding of this.
I look forward to reading more books by this author soon!
Published August 1st 2019 by Barbour Books.
I was given a complimentary copy of this book. Thank you.
All opinions expressed are my own.

I just finished “The Yellow Lantern” by Angie Dicken. This book is written about grave robbers around the time of 1824 as told in the first chapter. Although I had always heard of such things, I had no idea that the dead were exhumed to be used for medical experimentation. I thought that they robbed the corpses of any jewelry or things of value they were buried with.

I was not at all comfortable reading this book. In fact, it really freaked me out. I ended up speed-reading the novel just to get it done so that I could review it. I’m sorry, but this was just not my type of reading, nor my type of historical fiction. The author was a good writer and obviously did her homework about the subject, but I think someone else could review this book with more objectivity.

I admired the loyalty Josephine had for her father in spite of his misdeeds. I loved the forgiveness that was portrayed in the story and enjoyed reading about the faith of Josephine and Braham. There is an HEA for the main characters. I found the facts that the story was based on quite interesting. The author writes without any graphic details of the grave robbing. I received a copy from NetGalley. I chose to write a review and share my opinion.

I confess, although I had heard the term “grave robbers” I did not realize it was an actual practice that took place sometime in our history. What an interesting book The Yellow Lantern is and is book One in this true crime series. This historical mystery revolves around the practice of body snatching, stealing recently dead bodies after burial for medical research. This was strictly forbidden and also illegal, and if the culprits were caught they faced severe penalties. Josephine was thought to be dead although she was barely alive, when the grave snatcher brought her to the doctor for research. The Doctor realizing she was alive was going to kill her to cover up his mistake. She pled for her life and he allowed her to live if she would help him in letting him know when someone was close to death so they could be ready to snatch the body as soon as it was buried. …..Thus begins this most interesting tale Dicken has written about a horrid practice in an era bygone. The history in this book is well researched. It is interesting to learn about grave robbing and body snatching. The plot is an interesting one and centers on Jessie fighting against her conscience and religious scruples in trying to help the body snatchers. She is doing this to save her beloved father from debtors prison…….I received a complimentary copy of this book from Barbour Publishing and was under no obligation to post a review.

Wow! When Josephine awakens, she is positioned as the next corpse for research. Her body snatched from the graveyard, only she hadn't died! Josephine makes it her challenge to stop the Doctor and those he employs. Based on true stories it certainly gives a person some history to ponder! I was gifted a copy through the publisher and NetGalley, no review was required. My review is voluntary...

Can you Imagine waking up on an operating table being thought dead? well that happens to Josie. She manages to avoid being disected and lives. She has to find a body to replace herself. She moves to another town and gets a job in a mill. She becomes attracted to the mill foreman, Braham. Trying to keep her secret, she tries to avoid any attachments. This book discusses the hazards of mill work and the illegal body snatching for experiments. This historical is filled with interesting and complex characters. I could not put this book down!

The Yellow Lantern is a Gothic crime suspense. What a great plot! This book will keep you on the edge of your seat. I am really enjoying this series of crime books based on true happenings. I highly recommend this book.

This is another story in the True Colors series. Fictionalized accounts of true crime. So far, this series has been very interesting going back in history to tell us how these crimes came about. This one is set in late 1800's in MA depicting a grave robbing ring that studies the bodies for medical reasons. Very macabre and disturbing. This mostly revolves around a cotton mill and the girls that work there. All kinds of accidents happen so there are quite a few victims. All in all, a good read.
I received a free copy of this book from Netgalley and the publisher and voluntarily chose to review it.

I received a free digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I am a fan of historical fiction in general. I'm not sure that this book will end up in my top ten list.

The story deals with grave robbers, fabric mills, cotton farms and the troubles that come with owing money to the wrong people.

The main character, Josephine, finds herself needing to help with grave robbing to get her father out of trouble. Part of my less than 5-star review is because her problem felt fuzzy to me. It appears that she owed bodies to a doctor she had been working with, but I'm not sure why. She was also supposed to pay off someone else to get her father out of trouble, but that was also not super clear. He had been in a debtors prison and was released, but was now supposed to be sent back? Her situation was desperate enough that she felt the need to associate with grave robbers, but I'm not sure it was clear enough to me that I could understand why she would do such a thing and why there were no other options.

At any rate, she moves to another town to work in a cotton mill. She is to be on the lookout for deaths and then assist with the body stealing. At the mill, she makes friends and enemies, as expected. I wish it wasn't so easy to tell the "good guys" from the "bad guys" as it makes the story a whole lot more fun to read.

This book took me back to 1824 when medical science was archaic and grave robbing was popular. As I started this book I had a chill going up my spine. I had no idea grave robbing was a real thing let alone it was something that was done for research. I felt like I was reading a Gothic romantic mystery.
Ms. Dicken writes a mystery like Agatha Christie. I was on pins and needles the entire time. I kept turning pages late into the night attempting to figure out the mystery.
Josie and Braham were a great hero and heroine and the cast of characters that Ms. Dicken placed around them at the cotton mill complimented them and the story. Liesel the little bobbin girl is adorable and I could just see her running around the mill when called.
I loved watching Josie use herbs in caring for the girls at the mill. She'd learned about herbs at her mother's knee so it was enjoyable to watch her come into her own as a healer.
Overall this is book is exciting, suspenseful, romantic, and has everything that I love in a historical romantic mystery. I learned about cotton mills, grave robbing, and the beginning of our medical sciences.

Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book via the publisher in association with Angie Dicken's street team. I was not required to write a review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This was such a farfetched story that I found it hard to get through. But as the author explained in her note body snatchers did in fact exist in the 1800's. This story is a very tangled web of murder and deceit. This book was interesting but not really enjoyable.

Grave Robbers, Cotton Mills, and a Dawning Romance

In 1824, Jessie Clayton is gravely ill, but she doesn’t want to die. Dr. Chadwick is there, a doctor she’s been assisting for some time. He shakes his head there’s nothing he can do, but then Jessie wakes up on an operating table. She’s the next corpse Dr. Chadwick plans to dissect for his research. Shocked that she’s alive, he wants to kill her to cover his crime of body snatching. Everyone already thinks she’s dead anyway, but Jessie pleads with him, and she’s spared. The deal is that she will become Jessie Clay and go to work at a cotton mill. She will also scout fresh bodies for the body snatchers by pretending to be a mourner.

Accidents are rife at the mill, and Jessie becomes well known for her healing remedies.. The manager, Braham Taylor, notices her for her healing gifts. They become friends and romantic feelings develop between them. It is because of Braham that she will face her greatest test and decide her own fate.

This historical mystery revolves around the practice of body snatching, stealing recently dead bodies for medical research. It was strictly illegal, and if the snatchers were caught they faced severe penalties. The cotton mills were another factor in life in Massachusetts and other states. The conditions were dangerous and the workers were mostly young women, factory girls.

The history in this book is well researched. Although it’s hard to read about, it’s interesting to learn more about body snatching. The plot draws you in centering on Jessie’s religious scruples and her need to continue to help the body snatchers to save her father from debtors prison.

The characters are likable. You can feel Jessie’s conflict about the role she’s playing. The budding romance between Jessie and Braham is sensitively written. There is no promiscuous sex, so it’s suitable for young readers.

I received this book from Barbour Publishing for this review.

The Yellow Lantern is set in the Northeast in the early 1800s. Against her will, Josephine Clayton was drug into a network of body snatchers by her father and his farmhand. She was made to believe that her participation was the only way to protect her father, the only parent she had left. As part of her role, Josephine became Josie Clay and was hired on at the Gloughton Mill, a place where accidents often happened and could lead to death. No one could have predicted her growing attachment to the mill's manager, Braham Taylor, and his foster aunt, Mrytle Bates. Josie was torn between her loyalty to her father, her loyalty to God, and her growing affection for Braham and Aunt Myrtle. While she herself an herbalist was involved in the healing arts, using stolen bodies for medical research was repugnant to her. A way out of her predicament was elusive.

It took me awhile to get into this story, but once I did, I was hooked. I recommend the book with its unique story line and well-written dialogue to fans of suspense and historical fiction. I am grateful to Barbour Publishing for providing me with a copy of The Yellow Lantern via NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion. I was under no obligation to provide a positive review and received no monetary compensation.

What happens when a person who loves to heal through medicinal herbs is asked to use one of her remedies to kill someone? Josie Clayton finds herself in this position as she tries to pay off her father's debt. I enjoyed the love story as well as the portrayal of the villains in this historical crime drama. I haven't read the other books in the series but look forward to them.