RATING: GOOD
SPOILERS!!!
Thoughts and notes about the books I am reading. My entries are not book reviews but just my personal thoughts and opinions about what I'm reading at the moment. The entries obviously contain SPOILERS.
First Published: July 10, 2010
Kate is hired by Mr Moony, a jeweller, who has been robbed. The thief stole the pawned items he had in his safe and he is worried about his clients. Kate agrees to go and see those clients.
Watson first introduces himself as part of the Northumberland Fusiliers. The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers was an infantry regiment of the British Army.
First Published: December 27, 1887
This is the first Sherlock Holmes novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The narrator is Dr Watson, and he explains that in 1878 after serving the Northumberland Fusiliers, he was wounded in Afghanistan in the war, so he was sent back to England.
The novel is set in Edinburgh, Scotland. Edinburgh is Scotland's compact, hilly capital. It has a medieval Old Town and elegant Georgian New Town with gardens and neoclassical buildings.
First Published: August 9, 2018
The book starts on May 14. Helen Birch has been promoted to Detective Inspector, and it is today when she starts her new job. We discover that Helen has a dark past as her brother Chrlie went missing when he was twenty, and he was never found.