Ladies, anatomists and precious stones. 

The first two pages are terrific. But unfortunately, I was not able to hold my attention to the rest of the story. Might be my personal nitpick, though.

I am sorry, but I have tried to pick this book up several times to read it and I find my mind wandering by the third or fourth page. I don't like giving bad reviews but if you would still like me to, let me know.

If you enjoy old-fashioned period mysteries, you might like this. I haven't read any of the other books in the series, but if you read and enjoyed them, I'm sure you'll like this. It's perfectly well-executed, but it couldn't hold my attention for more than a couple chapters at a time. I'm usually a pretty fast reader, but this book felt like it took years to get through because I just could not bring myself to take any interest in anything that happened. The mystery wasn't interesting, the characters weren't interesting, nothing about it was actually interesting for me. 

It isn't even bad in any significant way, just painfully dull. It wasn't even interesting enough to hate.