![]() ![]() ![]() There is also a tantalizing, slow-burn love story between Holmes and a longtime friend befitting Thomas' skills as a romance novelist. Holmes herself is cast in the mold of the recent television incarnations of Conan Doyle’s savant as well as Deanna Raybourn’s detectives, Lady Julia Grey and Veronica Speedwell-with an added devotion to food that lends her an unexpected charm. The novel is peopled with characters who warm the reader with a glow of recognition-Watson, Lestrade, Mycroft, and Moriarty all appear in some form-but Thomas also imbues them with personalized histories and characteristics. ![]() Weaving them together is amateur sleuth Charlotte Holmes, who is also an inadvertent participant in them due to a social catastrophe she precipitated for personal reasons. The novel begins in 1886 England with the foreshadowing of a suspicious death, but the incident is only one of many seemingly unrelated events that form a pattern over the succeeding chapters. ![]() Gender bending is just the first sign that unusual happenings are afoot in this origin story for a revamped Sherlock Holmes series by bestselling author Thomas ( The Perilous Sea, 2015, etc.). What if the word’s most famous (and eccentric) Victorian detective were a young gentlewoman in the midst of a scandal? ![]()
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