A Hunt By Moonlight: A Victorian Detective Novel in a Gaslamp Fantasy Setting (Werewolves and Gaslight Book 1)
- 4.6 out of 5
- 350 ratings
- 298 pages
Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13
This Victorian-style paranormal murder mystery follows police and amateur investigators pursuing a killer amid werewolf lore and class tension. Language includes recurring mild expletives and slurs about illegitimacy and social status; characters also hurl insults about intelligence during stressful investigations. Parents should know the plot centers on murders and injured victims, with descriptions of blood and emergency care but not sustained graphic torture. Backstory mentions rape of a child and an abortion that led to legal punishment, and prostitutes are discussed in harsh, dehumanizing terms; there is no depicted sexual intimacy. Strongest single expletives of the harshest type do not appear in the material reviewed.
Reviews first uploaded October 6, 2026 12:00 pm. Revised October 9, 2026 6:35 am. Page updated October 9, 2026 6:35 am.
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Crude Mild
19Insults such as calling someone foolish or incompetent appear in arguments among police, suspects, and allies; vulgar anatomical jokes are not a pattern in the samples.
Amazon reviews mentioning crude
Specific words
- idiot: 10
- stupid: 9
Profanity Moderate
59Characters use mild and occasional stronger language in internal monologue and heated exchanges, including expletives, birth-related slurs tied to class prejudice, and a single compound insult; it appears regularly across the mystery but is not constant on every page.
Amazon reviews mentioning profanity
Specific words
- damn: 30
- hell: 16
- bastard: 12
- bitch: 1
Sex Mild
5There is no on-page sexual activity; dialogue and backstory refer to prostitution, degrading labels for victims, and a past rape connected to an abortion case, without graphic detail.
Specific words
- whore: 3
- rape: 2
Violence Moderate
57A serial-killer mystery includes murder aftermath, bleeding injuries, werewolf attacks, and memories of stabbing and shootings; tension and medical treatment are present, while several reader notes describe the violence as not highly explicit.
Amazon reviews mentioning violence
Specific words
- blood: 45
- bleed: 8
- punch: 2
- kick: 1
- stab: 1
About this book
A Scotland Yard Inspector hunts something more dangerous than werewolves through the gaslit streets of London. Royston Jones, unacknowledged bastard of a high-born family, is determined to track the killer before more young women fall to his knife. But his investigation puts him in the way of a lord who is a clandestine werewolf and the man’s fiancée , a woman alchemist with attitude and a secret of her own. Will they destroy Royston to protect their covert identities, or will they join with him to hunt the hunter? Lose yourself in a Victorian London full of mystery and werewolves! Read more