Lord have mercy...I loved this book.
This novel is the first in a series ( a series - yeah!!!) It is a new take on Sherlock Holmes. In this series, Holmes is in his early 50's. He has 'retired' and is living outside London in a small country village. Holmes is literally stumbled upon by his 15 year old neighbor Mary Russell. Mary has lost her parents and brother in a car accident and is living with her aunt until she comes into her inheritance at age 21. In Mary, Holmes finds a comparable mind to his own. He takes her on as his apprentice.
Here's the thing. I have never read the original Sherlock Holmes. Everything I know about the famous detective, I learned from Robert Downey Jr. So I enjoyed this book without any preconceptions about how the characters should act. This book is chock full of cases to be solved. And I thoroughly enjoyed each and every one of them.
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