
It is common knowledge in society that Lord and Lady Ingram are estranged. The woman was a holy terror: the sweetest face, the pillowiest bosom, and a perspicacity that stripped a man naked in seconds. Her “dear friend Lord Ingram stands accused of the murder of his estranged wife.” Lord Ingram has known and cared for Charlotte since they were adolescents. The Hollow of Fear is an intensely personal case for Charlotte. His voice, soft but confident, betrayed a hint of amusement. His fingers tapped against his walking stick. “Pleased to make your acquaintance at last, Miss Holmes,” said the man. Charlotte Holmes’s reputation precedes her wherever she goes, like the evening when she meets the nemesis in the Sherlock Holmes pantheon. Her supplicants think she speaks and acts on Holmes’s behalf, but Charlotte relies on her extraordinary skills of observation and detection to solve crimes, assisted by her staunch ally, the redoubtable Mrs. The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas is the third book in the Lady Sherlock series featuring Charlotte Holmes.Ĭharlotte Holmes’s cover is nothing if not impressive: far more than being the great detective’s amanuensis, she is the embodiment of “Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective” to her clients.
