Mycroft and Sherlock Kareem Abdul-Jabbar BOOKS FOR Rising War Office star Mycroft Holmes persuades SHERLOCK HOLMES his brother, Sherlock, to FANS volunteer at a best friend's orphanage, where the TWISTYMYSTERIESTHAT suspicious death of a street WILLKEEPYOUGUESSING urchin and a mysterious UNTILTHELASTPAGE Chinese woman lead the brothers into the London opium trade's dark underside. The Daughter of Sherlock A Study in Charlotte Holmes Brittany Cavallaro Leonard Goldberg Jamie Watson has always been 1914. Joanna Blalock's keen intrigued by Charlotte Holmes; mind and incredible insight after all, their great-great- lead her to become a highly- great-grandfathers are one of skilled nurse. But when she the most infamous pairs in and her ten-year-old son history. But the Holmes witness a man fall to his family has always been odd, and Charlotte is no death, they are visited by the exception. She's inherited Sherlock's volatility elderly Dr. John Watson. Impressed by her and some of his vices-and when Jamie and forensic skills, he invites her to become a Charlotte end up at the same Connecticut member of his investigative team. Caught up in a boarding school, Charlotte makes it clear she's Holmesian mystery, Jonanna and her companions not looking for friends. But when a student they must devise an ingenious plan to catch a both have a history with dies under suspicious murderer in the act while dodging circumstances, Jamie can no longer afford to familiar culprits, Scotland Yard, and members of keep his distance. the British aristocracy. Maisie Dobbs Jacqueline Winspear The Inheritance Charles Finch Maisie Dobbs entered Charles Lenox has received a domestic service in 1910 at cryptic plea for help from an old thirteen When her Harrow schoolmate, Gerald remarkable intelligence is Leigh, but when he looks into discovered by her employer, the matter he finds that his Maisie becomes the pupil of friend has suddenly disappeared. Maurice Blanche, a friend of As boys they had shared a her employer. In 1929, following an secret: a bequest from a apprenticeship with Blanche, Maisie hangs out mysterious benefactor had smoothed Leigh's way her shingle. She soon becomes enmeshed in a into the world after the death of his father. Lenox, mystery surrounding The Retreat. Maisie already with a passionate interest in detective work, investigates, uncovering a disturbing mystery made discovering the benefactor's identity his first which gives Maisie the courage to confront a case-but was never able to solve it. ghost that has haunted her for years. Hell Bay A Study in Scarlet Women Will Thomas Sherry Thomas While providing security for a With her inquisitive mind, secret conference with the Charlotte Holmes has never felt French government, private comfortable with the demureness enquiry agent Cyrus Barker, expected of the fairer sex in upper after the host of the party and class society. When the city is the French ambassador and struck by a trio of unexpected head of security are murdered, must uncover a deaths and suspicion falls on her killer among the guests as they are all trapped sister and her father, Charlotte is desperate to find in a manor hour with no way to escape. the true culprits and clear the family name. She'll have help from friends new and old. But in the end, Stalking Jack the Ripper it will be up to Charlotte to challenge society's Kerri Maniscalco expectations and match wits against an unseen Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose mastermind. Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter. But between the The Sweetness at the Bottom social teas and silk dress fittings, of the Pie she leads a forbidden secret life. Alan Bradley Against her stern father's wishes Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, and society's expectations, an aspiring chemist with a Audrey often slips away to her uncle's passion for poison, begins her laboratory to study the gruesome practice of adventure when a dead bird is forensic medicine. When her work on a string found on the doorstep of her of killed corpses drags Audrey into the family's mansion in the summer investigation of a serial murderer, her search for of 1950, thus propelling her into a mystery that answers brings her close to her own sheltered involves an investigation into a man's murder world. where her father is the main suspect. Closed Casket Sophie Hannah The Beekeeper's As guests arrive for a party for Apprentice her Irish mansion, Lady Playford Laurie R. King has decided to cut off her two In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is children without a penny...and retired and quietly engaged in leave her vast fortune to an the study of honeybees in invalid who has only weeks to Sussex when a young woman live. Among Lady Playford's literally stumbles into his lap visitors are two strangers: the famous Belgian on the Sussex downs. Fifteen detective Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently Catchpool of Scotland Yard. Neither knows why orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an he has been invited--until Poirot begins to intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under wonder if Lady Playford expects a murder. But his reluctant tutelage, this very modern twentieth- why does she seem so determined to provoke a century woman proves a deft protegee, and a killer? And why--when the crime is committed, fitting partner for the Victorian detective. despite Poirot's best efforts to stop it--does the identity of the victim make no sense at all?