The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz is the first officially sanctioned take-off of Sherlock Holmes by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate. Anthony Horowitz is a famed writer of young adult action novels (the Alex Rider series) and also an acclaimed writer of the PBS series Foyle's War.
Horowitz writes with an authentic Watsonian voice with all the regular characters being here - Inspector Lestrade, Mrs Hudson, Mycroft.
The story is multi-layered, the characters diverse.
I loved the patient gathering of clues, the unravelling of corruption and diabolical plans.
However there are a couple of other clues that suggest this not a Coyle books; for example Holmes does not come across as arrogant as in the original books.
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