A Study in Honor, Claire ODell
A Study in Honor, Claire ODell
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A Study in Honor
A Novel

Author: Claire O'Dell

Narrator: Lisa Renee Pitts

Unabridged: 11 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/31/2018


Synopsis

A selection in Parade’s roundup of “25 Hottest Books of Summer 2018” A Paste Magazine’s Most Anticipated 25 books of 2018 pickA Medium’s Books pick for We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 listSet in a near future Washington, D.C., a clever, incisive, and fresh feminist twist on a classic literary icon—Sherlock Holmes—in which Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sara Holmes will use espionage, advanced technology, and the power of deduction to unmask a murderer targeting Civil War veterans.Dr. Janet Watson knows firsthand the horrifying cost of a divided nation. While treating broken soldiers on the battlefields of the New Civil War, a sniper’s bullet shattered her arm and ended her career. Honorably discharged and struggling with the semi-functional mechanical arm that replaced the limb she lost, she returns to the nation’s capital, a bleak, edgy city in the throes of a fraught presidential election. Homeless and jobless, Watson is uncertain of the future when she meets another black and queer woman, Sara Holmes, a mysterious yet playfully challenging covert agent who offers the doctor a place to stay.Watson’s readjustment to civilian life is complicated by the infuriating antics of her strange new roommate. But the tensions between them dissolve when Watson discovers that soldiers from the New Civil War have begun dying one by one—and that the deaths may be the tip of something far more dangerous, involving the pharmaceutical industry and even the looming election. Joining forces, Watson and Holmes embark on a thrilling investigation to solve the mystery—and secure justice for these fallen soldiers.

About Claire O'Dell

Claire O'Dell grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the years of the Vietnam War and the Watergate Scandal. She attended high school just a few miles from the house where Mary Surratt once lived and where John Wilkes Booth planned for Lincoln to die. All this might explain why she spent so much time in the history and political science departments at college. Claire currently lives in Manchester, Connecticut, with her family and two idiosyncratic cats.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Elle

“It’s not as expensive as you think.” Sara Holmes leaned against the entry to the parlor, arms folded and mouth quirked into a smile. The lace gloves on her hands were just visible, though their color had faded to a pale gray. “How did you-” “Deduction. And a certain empathy born of like experi......more

I was really looking forward to this book, and although it has some great qualities, I didn't enjoy it. I have not read many published Sherlock Holmes adaptations, but I think I've rated them all two or three stars. So, please keep in mind that I may be more biased against adaptations with these cha......more

Goodreads review by Susie

I have a lot of thoughts about this novel and I'm reviewing primarily to work my way through them - probably not very coherently. Don't say I didn't warn you. Some positives: I thought the handling of trauma was excellent and the setting scary plausible as was the indifference of 'caring' bureaucraci......more

Goodreads review by Amy

Soooo.... let me begin by saying that I was given the sequel to this book in exchange for an honest review, but I really hate starting a series anywhere but the beginning. Like, DUH! So of course I then had to track down a copy of this book, which I couldn’t find anywhere except online. Thank God fo......more