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Spiritglass Charade: A Stoker & Holmes Novel
Spiritglass Charade: A Stoker & Holmes Novel | Colleen Gleason
4 posts | 12 read | 4 to read
Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you're the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood, so to speak. After the Affair of the Clockwork Scarab, Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes are eager to help Princess Alix with a new case. Seventeen-year-old Willa Aston is obsessed with spiritual mediums, convinced she is speaking with her mother from beyond the grave. What seems like a case of spiritualist fraud quickly devolves into something far more menacing: someone is trying to make Willa appear lunatic using an innocent-looking spiritglass to control her. The list of clues piles up: an unexpected murder, a gang of pickpockets, and the return of vampires to London. But are these events connected? As Uncle Sherlock would say, there are no coincidences. It will take all of Mina's wit and Evaline's muscle to keep London's sinister underground at bay.
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AlexisKami
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Pickpick

Amazing sequel to "The Clockwork scarab"
In love with the cover.

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jpmcwisemorgan
Mehso-so

The series as whole has a lot of potential. This one dies less of the characters explaining who they are and let's that aspect come out in other ways. I like that we get both perspectives, and we learn how the two main characters view not only the mystery but each other. All the additional historical bits like seances help to develop the setting (and Doyle was into spiritualism at one point). I just think the author might be trying to do too much.

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Literary_Siren
Pickpick

Better than the first! Starting The Chess Queen Enigma now! 5⭐️

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Literary_Siren
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Here we go, starting the second book!