The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes

The thrilling tale of Sherlock Holmes’ daughter and her companion Dr. John Watson Jr. as they investigate a murder at the highest levels of British society from the USA Today bestselling author.
1910. Joanna Blalock’s keen mind and incredible insight lead her to become a highly-skilled nurse, one of the few professions that allow her to use her finely-tuned brain. But when she and her ten-year-old son witness a man fall to his death, apparently by suicide, they are visited by the elderly Dr. John Watson and his charming, handsome son, Dr. John Watson Jr. Impressed by her forensic and deductive skills, they invite her to become the third member of their deductive team.
Caught up in a Holmesian mystery that spans from hidden treasure to the Second Afghan War of 1878-1880, Joanna and her companions must devise an ingenious plan to catch a murderer in the act while dodging familiar culprits, Scotland Yard, and members of the British aristocracy. Unbeknownst to her, Joanna harbors a mystery of her own. The product of a one-time assignation between the now dead Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, the only woman to ever outwit the famous detective, Joanna has unwittingly inherited her parents’ deductive genius.

    One of my favorite things about the older mystery novel is the comradery between the detectives and their companions. Whether it be Sherlock and Watson or Poirot and Hasting, there is always this sort of master and apprentice relationship going on. “The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes,” has made the irksome decision to throw a bit of romance into it. Coupling that with the name-dropping of familiar names and it becomes quite clear who the baddies are and what happened even by chapter 4 entitled “Christopher Moran.” There might have been a slight mystery around who Joanna Blalock might be if the book wasn’t called “The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes.”
Throughout the entire book, all of the characters seemed to be the children of Arthur Conan Doyle’s characters. The ones that weren’t, simply were there to be discredited or move the story along. I suppose this would  be a good book for a younger set that may not have read the Sherlock Stories but for someone who enjoys the stories in their original and the more modern counterparts, this story felt like a mimic of the originals.
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