Guest Review: Chronicles of the Lost Years – Tracy Cooper-Posey

When Sherlock Holmes was at the peak of his success he disappeared, abruptly, for three years. Dr. Watson believed him to be dead. No one knows what happened to him in those years…until now.

Watson takes up his pen one last time to describe in a private memoir the true tale of Holmes’ adventures during his three-year absence from Baker Street and provides a fictional explanation for many of the mysteries and inaccuracies found within the Sherlock Holmes collection of stories and novels.

The answers come in the shape of a woman – Elizabeth Sigerson. Elizabeth is independent, practical, a crack shot with a pistol and definitely not a woman of her time. Elizabeth is embroiled in Holmes’ life just when Holmes scheme to expose Moriarty is culminating. She can more than hold her own against Holmes’ abilities but she has a secret that Holmes is compelled to solve…

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Release Date:  December 1, 2012
Publisher:  Tracy Cooper-Posey
Source:  Provided by Author
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Reviewer’s Thoughts:

With a writing style that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle could mistake for his own, Tracy Cooper-Posey re-opens the life of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson and provides us with a new and exciting tale about the brilliant Holmes and his dear friend Watson during the 3 years that are missing from Holmes life in the original tales.

Chronicles of the Lost Years is everything you expect from a Sherlock Holmes tale, twists and turns, brilliant reasoning, tenacious villains and while this includes a female lead character don’t expect the usually undemonstrative Holmes to be all lovey, this is not a romance it is a Sherlock Holmes mystery.

While the misogynistic Holmes still has little use for the female gender as a whole, he doesn’t seem to see Elizabeth, the heroine of the book, in the same light. Most likely Holmes unusual tolerance for Elizabeth is because her intellect, logic and intelligence rival his own.

We are taken from the cozy sitting room at 221B Baker street to the sweeping deserts of Persia and the mountains of Tibet and back again. We witness the demise of Moriarty to start the explanation of the missing 3 years and we  have a battle of wills and cunning with the last of Moriarty’s gang to bring us to the climactic ending. If you have not read Sherlock Holmes before you may have to adjust to the style of writing and don’t expect everything to be wrapped up in a neat bow at the end of the book because that is just not how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, or in this modern adaptation of his work Tracy Cooper-Posey, tells a story or writes a book as the case maybe.

I have been a Holmes fan for many years so I enjoyed this a great deal, I know this wont be everyone’s cup of tea and as I warned don’t be looking for traditional romance and happy ever after. I am giving Chronicles of the Lost Years a 5 out of 5 cocktails because it is spot on with the aim of the author and a great deal of fun to read.

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