|a 'Inspector Treadles, Charlotte Holmes's friend and collaborator, has been found locked in a room with two dead men, both of whom worked with his wife at the great manufacturing enterprise she has recently inherited. |a Murder on Cold Street / |c Sherry Thomas.

|a Thomas, Sherry |q (Sherry M.), |0 |e author. The Art of Theft, by Sherry Thomas can be purchases wherever books are sold, or borrowed from your local library.|a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d OCLCO |d OCLCF |d SNR |d OCLCO |d UAP |d HBP |d NZAUC |d TCH |d YU6 |d JTH |d OCLCO |d E3V This series is easy to love, and I am content and pleased to see the books only improving with time. I love the little chosen family Charlotte has made for herself, and I am interested to see the developments the next book will bring. The mystery itself is intricate, interwoven with details from previous books, which lends the story a curated quality that I really enjoyed. Thomas always has incredibly strong secondary characters, and I hope some of the ones who appear in Cold Street will return. It advances the relationships between a number of characters, although most satisfyingly that of Charlotte and Lord Ingram. I am already a big fan of the series, but I was incredibly impressed by this latest book. Despite that, the gang begins their task, endeavoring to uncover the truth and save the inspector from the hangman’s noose by Christmas. Matters look pretty bleak, to put it frankly. It actually gets worse: the two dead men are associated with Alice, one is her late father’s business partner, and the other works for her at her company, Cousins Manufacturing. It is fortunate that Charlotte is on the case, as the evidence is pretty damning: Treadles was found in a locked room, with two dead men, holding a gun and covered in blood. His wife, Alice, is convinced of his innocence, and engages Holmes and her associates to discover the truth of the matter. Inspector Treadles, an ally to the Holmes gang and a friend of Lord Ingram, has been accused of murder. The end of the last book, The Art of Theft, left readers on a cliff-hanger. However, not so with this novel, an adventure that takes the intrepid Charlotte Holmes to a new part of London, where mysterious murders in the form of a locked-door mystery present themselves. The dynamics between characters can become stale, or fail to evolve, and the excitement wanes. Normally, at this point in a series ( Murder on Cold Street is the fifth in the Lady Sherlock series) I start to lose interest or forget all of the events of the previous books.

Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas