Young Sherlock Holmes: Red Leech by Andrew Lane

The Blurb On The Back:

Sherlock Holmes
Think you know him?
Think again

A dead man walking
A scarred face
A crime that shattered a country.

Sherlock Holmes knows that adults keep secrets. But he didn’t expect to find the world’s most famous assassin apparently living in Surrey when he’s meant to be dead – and his own brother somehow involved,

When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk all to discover it for yourself. So begins an adventure that will lead Sherlock to America, to the centre of a deadly web – where life and death are cheap, and truth has a price no sane person would pay …

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The Verdict:

Andrew Lane’s sequel to YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES: DEATH CLOUD is a well researched book the builds on the legend that John Wilkes Booth escaped capture for the murder of Abraham Lincoln and ties in a plan for the resurgence of the Confederate campaign. For me the overall plot was a little too preposterous and the villain too over-the-top but I like the way that Sherlock is developing as a character and especially the way Lane incorporates elements of the Holmes legend into his stories, which ensures that I will keep reading on.

Thanks to Macmillan for the free copy of this book.