7 rows · · An irresistible mystery set in s Edinburgh, Kaite Welsh's THE WAGES OF SIN features a 4/5(1). The Wages of Sin by Kaite Welsh is the first book in the Sarah Gilchrist Mysteries series. The book follows first-year medical student Sarah Gilchrist as attends the University of Edenborough the first year it admits women into their medical school. The Wages of Sin works well as a murder mystery. The tale is suspenseful and well-executed. However, as historical fiction, the book is a notch above. Author Kaite Welsh dramatizes the misogyny of the era. The book is set in , the first year women were accepted in /5().
12/10/ Set in Edinburgh in , Welsh's richly evocative second Sarah Gilchrist mystery (after 's The Wages of Sin) finds headstrong Sarah, a first-year medical student, trying to balance family expectations and her own desire to become a bltadwin.ru's parents will pay her medical school fees on one condition: she must marry Miles Greene, the colorless second son of a. The Wages of Sin A Novel Kaite Welsh. A page-turning tale of murder, subversion and vice in which a female medical student in Victorian Edinburgh is drawn into a murder investigation when she recognizes one of the corpses in her anatomy lecture. An irresistible mystery set in s Edinburgh, Kaite Welsh's THE WAGES OF SIN features a female medical student-turned-detective, and will thrill fans of Sarah Waters and Antonia Hodgson. 'Historical fiction doesn't get much more delicious or original' Damian Barr.
Welsh’s innovation is to reset this same kind of story into a past when both medical and crime-solving knowledge were rather behind their present state Wages of Sin is centred on Sarah Gilchrist, who has been sent to Edinburgh to escape some disgrace in London whose nature is hinted at from the start of the novel but only revealed later on. Welsh writes her as something of a snob, and very driven; but she’s also an engaging character, with an absolute desire to be an independent woman. The Wages of Sin by Kaite Welsh is a page-turning tale of murder, subversion, and vice in which a female medical student in Victorian Edinburgh is drawn into a murder investigation when she recognizes one of the corpses in her anatomy lecture. A prostitute is murdered in late-nineteenth-century Edinburgh, and no one cares. The Wages of Sin has three critical things going for it. First, it's a strong series debut. Second, Welsh is based in the city in which her story transpires, rendering her supporting research spot on. Third, and most important, she is a good writer who has figured out how to plot a fine mystery. Any fan of Victorian-era mysteries who picks up this one will eagerly await the next in Welsh's series.” The Star-Ledger.
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