So today I'm grumpy because while I try to be objective, there's just no way I can when it comes to the most recent book I finished. I have no idea if it's good or bad (I mean, it's not terrible, not at all) because I just enjoyed it so much. And I have books like that sometimes - books that very much hit things that I personally love where I want to recommend them, but I'm not sure how blinded I am by getting so many of my tastes all at once. And that was definitely the case for this book, which I believe is either the third or fourth book I finished this year.
A Study in Scarlet Women | Sherry Thomas
Berkely
2016
336 Pages
Rating: 5 Stars
Book 4/50 of 2019
Synopsis:
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.
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.
