London, 1932.
When Harriet White rebuffs the advances of her boss at the Baker Street Building Society, she finds herself demoted to a new position… a very unusual position. Deep in the postal department beneath the bank, she is tasked with working her way through a mountain of correspondence addressed to Baker Street’s most famous resident: Mr Sherlock Holmes.
Seemingly undeterred by the fact that Sherlock Holmes doesn’t exist, letter after letter arrives, beseeching him to help solve mysteries, and Harry diligently replies to each writer with the same response: Mr Holmes has retired from detective work and now lives in Sussex, keeping bees.
Until one entreaty catches her eye. It’s from a village around five miles from Harry’s family estate, about a young woman who went to London to work as a domestic, then disappeared soon afterwards in strange circumstances. Intrigued, Harry decides, just this once, to take matters into her own hands.
And so, the case of the missing maid is opened…
Firstly thank you to Rachel's Random Resources, Boldwood Books and Holly Hepburn for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
Now I've read some books by Holly Hepburn before and loved them but this was a new kind of book from her so while I knew the writing would be brilliant I was interested to see how she would do going from romance to cosy crime. And the answer to that is brilliantly. I can't believe this is her first cosy crime book she got the pacing spot on we had little points of worry for Harry's safety, brilliant Sherlock Holmes-inspired detective work from her and just a tiny hint of romance which I'm hoping we get more of in the next book.
I really loved Harry from the first point she stepped onto the page, She is such a strong-minded female character and you can't help but cheer her on when she stands up to creeps like her boss or shrugs off society's norms for a woman of her station to go do detective work and help someone of a lower station. She is an absolutely brilliantly written character and I'm so glad there are more books planned in this series because I'm really excited to see what she gets up to next and what the next intriguing letter for Mr.Holmes holds.
As I said Holly Hepburn's writing style is fantastic and love reading books by her because it's so easy to immerse yourself in them because of how she writes. I am so looking forward to book two and I hope it's hitting the shelves soon.
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