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.
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.
