Gemma Doyle is back in London with her friends and boyfriend to attend the Sherlock Holmes convention. She expects to hear about a lot of things and see a lot of Sherlock-related items that she may want to bring back to the states to sell in her bookstore. What she doesn’t expect is her father to be arrested for the murder of her long-lost uncle.
The detective on the case is determined to find her father guilty. With the police thinking that they already have their guy, what hope is there that the real killer will be discovered, and her father set free? Gemma isn’t about to sit back and let her father be found guilty just because the detective has a grudge.
Gemma and her friends begin their own investigation into the life and death of her long-lost uncle. What will she uncover about her family, and will she be able to prove her father innocent before the murderer gets away?
This was a very interesting book. I actually listened to this book as an audio book, rather than reading it myself. It was a great listen while I was washing dishes and folding laundry. The voice of the reader was pleasant, and I liked that she didn’t try to make the voices more masculine when it was a male. I, personally, don’t like when they do that because I feel like it messes with the natural flow of the writing. I do understand that some people do enjoy this greatly. Before I make this too much of a thing, I feel that I should point out that her voice did change for each character in one way or another, making it where the book was not dull and monotonous either.
I liked the story line for the most part, though I will admit I felt that there were scenes that were not needed and simply felt like they were filler to make sure that the novel was in fact long enough. There were a lot of interesting interactions during the course of the investigation, that I thought were really great.
I would recommend this book to people who love cozy mysteries and Sherlock Holmes. I would give this book three and a half stars out of five stars, but since I cannot do that on most sites, I will round it up to a four. I bought my audio for this book from Chirp at www.chirp.com.
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