USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes
upside down in the first novel in this Victorian mystery series.... With her inquisitive
mind Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer
sex in upper class society. But even she never thought that she would become a social pariah
an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. When the city is struck by a
trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her sister and her father Charlotte is
desperate to find the true culprits and clear the family name. She'll have help from friends
new and old-a kind-hearted widow a police inspector and a man who has long loved her. But
in the end it will be up to Charlotte under the assumed name Sherlock Holmes to challenge
society's expectations and match wits against an unseen mastermind. An NPR Best Book of 2016
