Charlotte Holmes was an odd child and becomes even more unconventional as a grown woman, as a scarlet woman, tarnished according to Victorian decorum. Fortunately, her nonconformity hides a brilliant mind, one she uses to survive and thrive. When some of her family is suspected in the murders of several prominent members of Victorian society, Charlotte determines to solve the crimes and prove her loved ones innocent, but first she needs to take on an assumed name to protect her identity and to have her skills as a genius puzzle-solver taken seriously by the police and the world at large. What could be more natural than Sherlock?
The first in the "Lady Sherlock" series, A Study in Scarlet Women, is a complex mystery with multiple deaths, multiple motives, and multiple suspects. While Thomas could have made her female Sherlock impervious to doubt and secure in her supreme intellect, Charlotte Holmes is extremely vulnerable simply due to the time period and her gender, and it isn't without a great deal of luck and help from a few friends that she is able to succeed. An incredible start to a series, readers will come to love the flawed but intelligent heroine and will be eager to read more of Lady Sherlock's future adventures.
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