The Diabolical Bones (Bronte Sisters Mystery #2) by Bella Ellis

From Goodreads

It’s Christmas 1845 and Haworth is in the grip of a freezing winter.

Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë are rather losing interest in detecting until they hear of a shocking discovery: the bones of a child have been found interred within the walls of a local house, Top Withens Hall, home to the scandalous and brutish Bradshaw family.

When the sisters set off to find out more, they are confronted with an increasingly complex and sinister case, which leads them into the dark world of orphanages, and onto the trail of other lost, and likely murdered children. After another local boy goes missing, Charlotte, Emily and Anne vow to find him before it’s too late.

But in order to do so, they must face their most despicable and wicked adversary yet – one that would not hesitate to cause them the gravest of harm...

My thoughts

I gave this a 4 stars or 8/10.  This is the second in the Bronte Sisters Mystery series by Bella Ellis which is the pen name of Rowan Coleman.  Rowan Coleman has an affinity with the Bronte family and the area that they lived in.  This is very clear in her writing and her imagination in being able to weave a fictional series about real people who wrote some of the most well known books of their time, featuring them as amateur detectives trying to get them attempt to solve mysteries is genius in my opinion.

I read and enjoyed the first book in the series, The Vanished Bride over two years ago.

In this story we find the Bronte's trying to solve the mystery of a case of some old bones belonging to a child that are discovered hidden in the walls of a local house.  Can the Bronte's work out what happened and who the child belonged to?  As the owners of the house a rather notoriously rough and well know for all the wrong reasons family.  Is this anything to do with them or is this to do with someone else?  

As the story develops is this discovery of bones the first such event or have others been found in the past and if so are they linked in any way at all?  

I look forward to reading the next story in this series as I am sure that there will be more to follow.