Bonnie MacBird. HarperCollins/Collins Crime Club, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-00-813083-1
MacBird's less than compelling debut finds Sherlock Holmes setting fire to his Baker Street rooms in late 1888. The detective has been in a downward spiral since his involvement in the Jack Ripper case temporarily landed him in prison on charges of...
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Bonnie MacBird. Collins Crime Club, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-00-812971-2
MacBird’s outstanding sequel to 2015’s Art in the Blood melds a twisty, multilayered plot with a plausible exploration of Sherlock Holmes’s life before Watson. The detective is unusually rude toward a prospective client, Isla McLaren, who seeks his...
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Bonnie MacBird. Collins Crime Club, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-00-834810-6
Set in 1890, MacBird’s solid third Sherlock Holmes adventure (after 2017’s Unquiet Spirits) poses a clever mystery for the master detective to solve. London is being afflicted by a series of strange deaths, including that of medical research donor...
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Bonnie MacBird. Collins Crime Club, $26.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-008380-83-0
MacBird’s intriguing fourth Sherlock Holmes adventure (after 2019’s The Devil’s Due) centers on three possibly connected mysteries. The first fleshes out the backstory of Dr. Watson, who’s unsettled to receive a letter and a locked box from an...
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Bonnie MacBird. Collins Crime Club, $26.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-00-852128-8
MacBird’s diverting fifth Sherlock Holmes adventure (after 2021’s The Three Locks) draws Holmes and Watson into two cases involving children shortly before Christmas Eve. First, they thwart the attempted abduction of a four-year-old boy from his...
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