For Queen And Country

Emily Watson lives in a quaint English manor house with her twin sister, confined to a 20-mile radius around the estate for reasons she has never known. When the mysterious Professor Moriarty comes to visit and her sister goes missing, she discovers she is the half-sister of Dr. John Watson. Traveling to London to meet him, she finds that he is the biographer and flatmate of famed consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, in whom Professor Moriarty has expressed a sinister interest. Soon after her arrival, Emily becomes embroiled in the kidnapping of a Russian diplomat, which could cause political havoc if the culprit is not quickly brought to justice. The case has ties to her past, and a curious thread throughout that threatens to topple the already precarious balance of Europe's empires. This short novel is a revolutionary re-introduction to a universe that has been the object of fascination for over a hundred years, and promises a series full of diverse circumstances and many twists and turns before the final problem is addressed.

Just six weeks after the events of The Devil at Prayers, Emily Watson is settling into her new home at 221B Baker Street. Although she is enthralled by the cases brought to Holmes, and completely smitten with Andrew Lynch, she is haunted by the conclusion to the Ivanov case. When Holmes receives a letter from a girl whose brother has disappeared, Emily is struck with the sense that she has heard Nicole Camberwell's name before. When they arrive in the North Yorkshire town of Rosedale Abbey, Emily recognises Nicole from the Dmitri Koval crime scene. With the discovery of Simon Camberwell's body, the group is thrown into a thick plot tied to the nearby lead mines and local superstition. This instalment of For Queen and Country brings light to a previously unchronicled case once mentioned by Doctor Watson: the Camberwell poisoning case, which was solved by winding up the dead man's watch. The game is afoot in this atmospheric story full of inner turmoil, chilling implications, and a darker shadow around every corner.