Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 6/5/2019 + 1031 more book reviews

Fourth in the series featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. It isn't the most action-packed book, the mystery is rather leisurely and there's really no reason to care much about the murder victim - who isn't the reason they are out on the moor in the first place. I liked how it harkened back to "The Hound of the Baskervilles", but even if you haven't read that, there is enough info for you to get the gist of it. As in the last book, King drags a red herring across the reader's path. Mary does seem rather irritable in this outing, but then she's spending all her time slogging her way through the wet, questioning folks while Holmes spends a lot of time in London. There are many hot baths mentioned. I gather it isn't seen as the best of this series, but I liked it. Read King's afterword about Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, he was a real person, and her reasoning to build the plot around him is worth a grin.

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