Death Cloud

My turn. Have you ever wondered what kind of events inspired a certain boy to become the greatest detective in fictitious history? Wonder no longer. Authorized and Endorsed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate, Death Cloud, written by Andrew Lane, is the beginning of the Sherlock Holmes legend. The book begins in 1868 when Sherlock Holmes was only fourteen years old. After being sent to live with his uncle (that he’d never met) because his father was sent to India, Sherlock becomes involved in his very first murder mystery. Throw in an American tutor hired by Mycroft, Sherlock’s older brother, a girl, and a very first best friend and you have the makings of a fantastic story that doesn’t let you go from the Prologue. Follow Sherlock through the slums of his uncle’s hometown, down the river to the home of a doctor that studies infectious diseases, into London and even to the coast of France as he follows clue after clue leading to his first nemesis Baron Maupertuis. In the end, of course Sherlock sorts out the mystery and saves the day, but in the interests of the reader, Mr. Lane allows the Baron to escape. This is an amazing beginning to a new series about Sherlock Holmes and I am already counting down the days until the second book, Rebel Fire is published this fall.

I can't even get to chapter 9 and I payed for this book. It needs a major fix.

One of my favorite reads