Goodreads Synopsis:
Charlotte Holmes and
Jamie Watson think they’re finally in the clear. They’ve left
Sherringford School—and the Moriartys—behind for a pre-college summer
program at Oxford University. A chance to start from scratch and explore
dating for the first time, while exploring a new city with all the
freedom their program provides. But when they arrive, Charlotte is
immediately drawn into a new case: a series of accidents have been
befalling the members of the community theater troupe in Oxford, and
now, on the eve of their production of Hamlet, they’re starting all over
again. What once seemed like a comedy of errors is now a race to
prevent the next tragedy—before Charlotte or Jamie is the next victim.
The hotly anticipated and explosive third book in the New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes series.
It’s been a year since the shocking death of August Moriarty, and Jamie and Charlotte haven’t spoken.
Jamie
is going through the motions at Sherringford, trying to finish his
senior year without incident, with a nice girlfriend he can’t seem to
fall for.
Charlotte is on the run, from Lucien Moriarty and from
her own mistakes. No one has seen her since that fateful night on the
lawn in Sussex—and Charlotte wants it that way. She knows she isn’t safe
to be around. She knows her Watson can’t forgive her.
Holmes and
Watson may not be looking to reconcile, but when strange things start
happening, it’s clear that someone wants the team back together. Someone
who has been quietly observing them both. Making plans. Biding their
time.
Someone who wants to see one of them suffer and the other one dead.
Watson and Holmes: A match made in disaster.
Jamie
Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a winter-break reprieve
after a fall semester that almost got them killed. But Charlotte isn’t
the only Holmes with secrets, and the mood at her family’s Sussex estate
is palpably tense. On top of everything else, Holmes and Watson could
be becoming more than friends—but still, the darkness in Charlotte’s past is a wall between them.
A
distraction arises soon enough, because Charlotte’s beloved uncle
Leander goes missing from the estate—after being oddly private about his
latest assignment in a German art forgery ring. The game is afoot once
again, and Charlotte is single-minded in her pursuit.
Their first
stop? Berlin. Their first contact? August Moriarty (formerly
Charlotte’s obsession, currently believed by most to be dead), whose
powerful family has been ripping off famous paintings for the last
hundred years. But as they follow the gritty underground scene in Berlin
to glittering art houses in Prague, Holmes and Watson begin to realize
that this is a much more complicated case than a disappearance. Much
more dangerous, too.
What they learn might change everything they know about their families, themselves, and each other.
