Crafts and Life

Gemma Doyle, a transplanted Englishwoman, has returned to the quaint town of West London on Cape Cod to manage her Great Uncle Arthur's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium. The shop–located at 222 Baker Street–specializes in the Holmes canon and pastiche, and is also the home of Moriarty the cat. When Gemma finds a rare and potentially valuable magazine containing the first Sherlock Homes story hidden in the bookshop, she and her friend Jayne (who runs the adjoining Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room) set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body.

The highly perceptive Gemma is the police’s first suspect, so she puts her consummate powers of deduction to work to clear her name, investigating a handsome rare books expert, the dead woman's suspiciously unmoved son, and a whole family of greedy characters desperate to cash in on their inheritance. But when Gemma and Jayne accidentally place themselves at a second murder scene, it's a race to uncover the truth before the detectives lock them up for good.

Gemma Doyle is running the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium for her Great Uncle (she has half shares in the business and half shares in the house) this is based at 222 Baker Street (her Great Uncle would have preferred 221 Baker Street but that wasn't for sale!), after a very busy day Gemma finds what appears to be a valuable magazine stashed behind some books, she and her friend Jayne track down where the person who stashed it is staying only to find her dead! One of the detectives is an ex-boyfriend (who knows her quirks) but the other seems to believe she is the murderer! Gemma needs to channel Sherlock himself to find out what is going on.

I found this heavy going to start with but about half way through it picked up and I am glad I stuck with it!