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jacey
The cover copy says: 'This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting.' However I think once I'd read the first few pages it was pretty close to what I was expecting. This riffs off Sherlock Holmes, though the Holmes character is an angel called Crow (The Angel of London) and his doctor-sidekick (and narrator) is Dr Doyle who is hiding a couple of very big secrets. Set in 1888, in a version of London, expect angels (fallen and otherwise) vampires, hell hounds, and the worthies of the London police (Conan Doyle's Lestrade, plus the historically correct Abberline and Reid.) The duo revisit the Hound of the Baskervilles, meet Moriarty, but throughout it's the murder of prostitutes in Whitechapel and Spitalfields that intrigue Crow, and that's where the trajectory of this story eventually leads. Supernatural and criminal worlds collide. This is intriguing and very readable.
