Publisher: Pegasus Books, June 1 2021

Format: Hardcover 

Pages: 256

Rating: 3/5 stars

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Bringing Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian Era into the dark days of World War II, this imaginative new thriller confronts the world’s greatest detective with a killer emulating the murders of Jack the Ripper.

London, 1942.

A killer going by the name of “Crimson Jack” is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is the self-styled Crimson Jack a descendant of the original Jack—or merely a madman obsessed with those notorious killings?

In desperation Scotland Yard turn to Sherlock Holmes, the world’s greatest detective. Surely he is the one man who can sift fact from legend to track down Crimson Jack before he completes his tally of death. As Holmes and the faithful Watson tread the blacked out streets of London, death waits just around the corner.

Inspired by the classic film series from Universal Pictures starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, which took Sherlock Holmes to the 1940s, this is a brand-new adventure from a talented author who brilliantly evokes one of mystery fiction’s most popular characters.

My Review:

Thank you Pegasus Books for the copy of this book.
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Read if you like: historical mysteries and Sherlock Holmes stories.
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This was a fun mystery that reimagines Sherlock Holmes in WW2 London, and he must solve the mystery of a person taking on the role of Jack the Ripper. I liked that Watson was the narrator for the book, and there was a fun cast of characters as Holmes and Watson try to find out who the killer is before they murder the same number of women that Jack the Ripper did!
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CW: murder, death, violence against women, war, graphic descriptions.