Why have I chosen to start this blog? Because I’d like you to join me on a visit to Kensington, London, during the Victorian era. This is where the sleuth of my new cozy mystery series, eighteen-year-old Lucy Turner, lives with her widowed mother Herbertina (“Hebe”) Compton Turner. As the story starts, Lucy is in love with a newly-minted barrister named William Schwenk Gilbert. He’s tall, blond, handsome, and unfortunately thinks of her only as the young girl who lives down the street from his parents’ house. If his name sounds familiar to you, you’re right – he is William S. Gilbert, who will later achieve fame as half of…