A KILLER IS AFOOT
Transplanted Englishwoman Gemma Doyle owns the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium in the quaint town of West London on Cape Cod, specializing in the Holmes canon and pastiche, and the adjoining Mrs. Hudson’s Tea Room. When Gemma finds a rare and potentially valuable magazine containing the first Sherlock Holmes story hidden in the bookshop, she and her friend Jayne set off to find the owner. What they find instead is a dead woman and Gemma’s house ransacked.
The highly perceptive Gemma is the police’s first suspect, so she puts her 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 they’re locked up for good.