Saturday night I read
Elementary She Read by Vicki Delany. Fantastic title and cover don't you think? This is a new cozy series for Vicki that comes out in March from Crooked Lane Books. I thought it was superb! There is so much to love in this book, main character Gemma and her best friend Jayne make a great team. I would love to have Gemma keen sense of observation, house and shop in Boston's cape cod area, along with a mysterious traveling uncle. This was fun, it was fast and it was thought provoking. Vicki is a great author, chose a great cozy setting as well as a fun way to show a love of Sherlock! I think this will be a very popular series, do keep it in mind for your Spring break read!
Gemma Doyle, a transplanted Englishwoman, has returned to the quaint town of West London on Cape Cod to manage her Great Uncle Arthur's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium. The shop--located at 222 Baker Street--specializes in the Holmes canon and pastiche, and is also the home of Moriarty the cat. When Gemma finds a rare and potentially valuable magazine containing the first Sherlock Homes story hidden in the bookshop, she and her friend Jayne (who runs the adjoining Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room) set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body. The highly perceptive Gemma is the police’s first suspect, so she puts her consummate powers of deduction to work to clear her name, investigating a handsome rare books expert, the dead woman's suspiciously unmoved son, and a whole family of greedy characters desperate to cash in on their inheritance. But when Gemma and Jayne accidentally place themselves at a second murder scene, it's a race to uncover the truth before the detectives lock them up for good.
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