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    Art in the Blood
    Art in the Blood
    Art in the Blood
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    Art in the Blood

    Written by Bonnie MacBird

    Narrated by Thomas Judd

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    London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson can neither comfort nor rouse his friend – until a strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris.

    Mlle La Victoire, a beautiful French cabaret star writes that her illegitimate son by an English lord has disappeared, and she has been attacked in the streets of Montmartre.

    Racing to Paris with Watson at his side, Holmes discovers the missing child is only the tip of the iceberg of a much larger problem. The most valuable statue since the Winged Victory has been violently stolen in Marseilles, and several children from a silk mill in Lancashire have been found murdered. The clues in all three cases point to a single, untouchable man.

    Will Holmes recover in time to find the missing boy and stop a rising tide of murders? To do so he must stay one step ahead of a dangerous French rival and the threatening interference of his own brother, Mycroft.

    This latest adventure, in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sends the iconic duo from London to Paris and the icy wilds of Lancashire in a case which tests Watson's friendship and the fragility and gifts of Sherlock Holmes' own artistic nature to the limits.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 5, 2016
    ISBN9780008129705
    Author

    Bonnie MacBird

    Bonnie MacBird was born and raised in San Francisco and fell in love with Sherlock Holmes by reading the canon at age ten. She attended Stanford University, earning a BA in Music and an MA in Film. Her long Hollywood career includes feature film development exec at Universal, the original screenplay for the movie TRON, three Emmy Awards for documentary writing and producing, numerous produced plays and musicals, and theatre credits as an actor and director. In addition to her work in entertainment, Bonnie teaches a popular screenwriting class at UCLA Extension, as well as being an accomplished water-colourist. She is a regular speaker on writing, creativity, and Sherlock Holmes. She lives in Los Angeles, with frequent trips to London    

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    • 2/5
      [ Not the Holmes or Watson we all know! ] I read pretty much any Holmes pastiche I find, but this book and the next in the series were disappointing enough that I won’t continue this series. Holmes is portrayed as rather bumbling, not nearly as sharp as Doyle’s detective. Watson, on the other hand, is implied to be a ladies’ man and often more capable than Holmes himself. Then there’s the subject matter (child sexual abuse) and the gruesome violence, including that which the author inflicts on Holmes. If you like the Holmes canon and prefer modern authors to adhere more closely to the less graphic style of Doyle, you’re not going to like this one. Even if this were a non-Holmes book with the names of the duo changed, I wouldn’t be able to recommend this story as a detective novel thanks to the meandering and confusing narrative, the disgusting crime, and the tedious dead ends that add to the word count and needlessly prolong the story.
    • 5/5
      Excellent depiction of our old friends, holmes and Watson. Ciao
    • 4/5
      Loved it! Perfectly portray my two favorites and I love the two mysteries and the way they worked themselves together. I also like the switch in the POV in different chapters. Really well done!
    • 3/5
      I would liked to have given this book more stars but found the writing not that good. I also found the character of Holmes unlikable. He was, through most of the book, nasty, sarcastic, and short tempered. In addition, althoughthe plot idea was decent, I found a lack of period detail. I did not feel like I was in Victorian London at all.
    • 4/5
      I liked it. The narrator does a good job at all the voices.
    • 3/5
      The author does a good job of capturing the period atmosphere, but the story is excessively grim, and the abuse visited upon the detective, especially at the end, borders on the ridiculous.
    • 4/5
      1888 Mlle La Victoire asks for Holmes help as her son, Emil, that was fathered by the married Earl of Pellingham has disappeared. But is there a connection between that and the theft of a valuable statue, or even the murder of children from a silk mill in Lancashire.
      An enjoyable historical mystery, a good start to the series.
    • 2/5
      A Sherlock mystery set in 1888 - hard to imagine he and Watson were only 35. Much violence and racing round in carriages, cocaine use and cryptic messages but of course murders solved.
    • 1/5
      Both Holmes and Watson using swear words? NoAmericanized ones at that? NoSherlock Holmes and Mycroft distrusting one another, Sherlock cussing at Mycroft? NoMycroft accusing Sherlock of having 'feeling' for a woman? NoMycroft letting Sherlock sit in jail, allowing a fake case against him to continue..................of Jack the Ripper at that ***cough Dust and Shadow anyone cough*******Using more French than English, and not bothering to translate for those of us who don't know much French.The descriptive scenery is good, I liked the plot enough, just not enough to finish it. Not when I have others to read. I would recommend for those who are not too particular about their Sherlock Holmes. I am not a purist, just didn't care for this one.
    • 4/5
      With no interesting cases to challenge him, Sherlock Holmes is bored and that means depression and cocaine. Watson is unable to help. But when a perfumed letter arrives written in disappearing ink and coincidentally a call from Holmes’ brother Mycroft with a ‘request’ that Sherlock uncover the whereabouts of the Greek Nike statue whose disappearance could precipitate an international incident and which may be linked to the death of four orphans, Sherlock is on the case. With Watson in tow, he heads for Paris to meet Mlle La Victoire, the writer of the letter whose son is missing and whose father, the Earl of Pellington, is a collector of fine art and is not particularly scrupulous about how he acquires it.Art in the Blood by author Bonnie MacBird is a nice homage to the great consulting detective and a whole lot of fun to read. It is a real page turner full of twists and turns and just a rollicking good tale full of adventure and memorable characters both old and new. Definitely a worthy addition to the Holmes canon.