Books by Bonnie MacBird

After Art in the Blood and Unquiet Spirits, Holmes and Watson are back in the third of Bonnie MacBird's critically acclaimed Sherlock Holmes Adventures, written in the tradition of Conan Doyle himself.

The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood. December 1889. Fresh from debunking a "ghostly" hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta.

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.

It's the season of peace and goodwill, but a Victorian Christmas is no holiday for the world's most popular detective in this new book from Bonnie MacBird, author of the bestselling Sherlock Holmes novel Art in the Blood.

Sneen falder over London på en kold decemberdag i 1888. Sherlock Holmes er ved at gå i hundene. Han er faldet tilbage i sit kokainmisbrug efter det mislykkedes ham at fange Jack the Ripper. Ikke engang hans trofaste ven Watson kan få ham på bedre tanker. Men da han modtager et mystisk brev fra Paris, ændres alt. Brevet er fra Mlle La Victorie, en smuk fransk cabaretstjerne. Hun skriver, at hendes uægte søn, som hun fik sammen med en engelsk lord, er forsvundet, og at hun er blevet overfaldet i Montmartre. Holmes og Watson haster til Paris, hvor de opdager, at sønnens forsvinden kun er toppen af isbjerget: En værdifuld statue af Nike fra Samothrake er blevet stjålet i Marseille og flere børn fra et silkespinderi er blevet myrdet. Alt peger på en enkelt mand, en mand, som ingen kan finde. Kan Holmes nå at finde den forsvundne dreng og stoppe morderen i tide? Han bliver hele tiden nødt til at være et skridt foran sin farlige franske rival. Oveni er Holmes’ bror Mycroft et forstyrrende element i efterforskningen. Udsigterne for succes er ikke ligefrem strålende, men det er nu eller aldrig!