Published: January 3, 2017
ISBN: 978-1250072245
Genre: Non-fiction, Biography
Format: Print
Obtained via: Library
Reviewed by name and email address: Gina Ginalrmreviews@gmail.com
FIVE HEARTS
As the calendar rolled over to 1899 to the early 1900’s few
women, if any, attended law school. If
they did, it was almost as an afterthought—in night classes. One such woman was
Grace Humiston. But Grace was much more
than a dilatant sitting in a night class. Law school was only the beginning of
what Grace became and the impact she had on not only her home city of New York,
but as far reaching as Italy. In a world
where the women who did pursue higher education and particularly law school,
for most it was to meet a husband or learn a bit about their family finances. Grace had something else in mind. Her
professor, seeing how unique and talented she was quickly moved her to the day
classes. Upon her graduation she set
about to help the poor of New York receive justice. Bit by bit she took on cases of the people who
could not fend for themselves—abusive husbands, a slave labor camp in the south
and saving an innocent man from death row. Each case led her closer and closer
to perhaps the most important not only her career, but in shaping how missing
persons are handled even today in the City of New York.
I do not normally seek out non-fiction and even less
biographies. I read, for the most part,
to step away from my everyday life and, while I love my day job, sometimes I
need to go, at least in my mind, somewhere else. When I saw the blurb for Brad
Ricca’s Mrs. Sherlock Holmes, however, I had to pick it up. I was not
disappointed. In fact, I was treated to an even better read than I anticipated.
Humiston was not only an attorney and a detective, she was a force of nature.
The first female deputy attorney It is through Ricca’s amazing story telling
that Grace comes to live on the pages of a book that, once you start, you
simply cannot put down. He tells her story like a well told mystery. He draws
you into Grace’s life and you cannot wait to see what she will do next. While I
will tell my friends about a book I’m reading, I rarely go out of my way to
discuss and encourage them to pick up and read one. Ricca’s Mrs. Sherlock
Holmes so captured my attention I’ve told most of my friends and co-workers
that this is one book you do not want to miss. If you read only one book this
year, make it this one.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
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