2017 reading challenge: a book with alliteration in the title

[baronessekat]

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


After having listened to several heavy and dark audiobooks lately, this was the perfect bit of palette cleanse. I also have to say that this was the first "Sherlock Holmes" story that I have liked in a very long time.

Charlotte Holmes is a bit of an eccentric. She approaches life on her own terms, does not accept things because that's how proper English ladies do things, and has an uncanny skill at observation and deduction. So when several members of the elite end up dead, she starts piecing things together. Only the constabulary will not listen to a mere woman, so she creates the persona of Sherlock Holmes and provides guidance to them through correspondence and ruse.

This was not at all a heavy thinking book. In fact it had more of the feel of a Regency Romance without the romance. I enjoyed the book and should the next one cross my path I will read it, but I do not see myself rushing out to find it right away.



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Comments

[stitchwhich]

Have you tried the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King? It is about an American school girl who stumbles over Shirlock after his retirement and ends up being taken as his apprentice. I love it, and I am mostly 'meh' about Shirlock Holmes. Um, sort of. I just realized that I enjoy "Elementary" on TV and am a big fan of Shirlock on BBC. Okay, well, the books leave me cold though. Generally.

[baronessekat]

I will certainly look into those.