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
