Art in the Blood by Bonnie MacBird

Art in the Blood:  A Sherlock Holmes Adventure
                                   by Bonnie MacBird. A Collins Crime Club imprint, 2015.
                                   (HarperCollins Publishers).


In his mid-thirties, Holmes is depressed and using cocaine. Watson is married, but Mary has been called away, so when Watson must aid Sherlock, he responds quickly. They soon take on an unexpected case of a missing child, son of a beautiful French singer and the very English Earl of Pellingham . The Earl collects art and a priceless sculpture is missing and rumoured on its way to his collection. Are the boy and the statue connected? What about other missing boys in the Earl's silk mills? Visiting Paris and finding his French detective rival, taking on the identity of a wheelchair bound art expert with Mycroft's research, and facing the appeal of the gorgeous Frenchwoman, Sherlock searches for clues into the mystery and its ultimate solution.




It's London. It's Holmes and Watson together again to solve another crime. In the capable hands of Bonnie MacBird, the two continue to keep the baddies of the world under control.  Although few have done Holmes-a-likes as well as Laurie King in her inspired Mary Russell series, do try this title and lose yourself in the adventure! Hopefully, this will be as successful a new series for MacBird.