A Conspiracy In Belgravia (The Lady Sherlock Series)

"Sherry Thomas’ Lady Sherlock series, of which this is the second book, takes a straightforward premise – what if Sherlock Holmes had been a woman instead of a man – and explores every possible facet of it in a pitch-perfect, fascinating and gloriously historically accurate manner. True, Charlotte Holmes, her sister Livia and her companion, Mrs. Watson, do get to have adventures few women could have in 1880. But rather than erasing the oppressive systems designed to stamp out lives like theirs, Thomas shows her characters walking the era’s sociocultural tightropes, which raises the stakes. And that’s in addition to telling a mystery that Arthur Conan Doyle would be proud to call his own – and developing not one, but two love stories he could never have created in his wildest dreams."