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Charlotte Holmes Lady Sherlock is back solving new cases in the Victorianset mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of The Hollow of Fear

As Sherlock Holmes consulting detective Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals But she has never stolen a priceless artworkor rather made away with the secrets hidden behind a muchcoveted canvas

But Mrs Watson is desperate to help her old friend recover those secrets and Charlotte finds herself involved in a feverpaced scheme to infiltrate a glamorous Yuletide ball where the painting is one handshake away from being sold and the secrets a bare breath from exposure

Her dear friend Lord Ingram her sister Livia Livias admirer Stephen Marbletoneveryone pitches in to help and everyone has a grand time But nothing about this adventure is what it seems and disaster is biding time on the grounds of a glittering French chateau waiting only for Charlotte to make a single mistake