‘By far the best murder mystery I've read in a long time, so if you love eccentric characters, unconventional detectives, a dash of dark humour & murder mysteries with a Sherlock Holmes twist, this is the one!’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Meet Abigail Wren: a dog-with-a-bone investigator, a mouth that’s always getting her into trouble, and unlikely heiress to the entire Moriarty empire?
Abigail Wren is down on her luck. But when an unexpected stranger tumbles into her normal life, her whole world is flipped upside down: not only has she inherited a crumbling manor in the countryside, but also a household of ageing criminals. And not just any criminals: a bunch of eccentric misfits fiercely loyal to her long-lost ancestor. His name? Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes’s greatest enemy. What?!
She doesn’t know what she’s more horrified by – managing a tumbling down manor house turned tea shop or inheriting a criminal empire – but all she knows is that she wants nothing to do with it. Her new “employees” feel the same. How can they take orders from someone whose always been on the right side of the law?
But when one of their team, Maurice Finch, dies in suspicious circumstances, they all agree: someone needs to work out what happened. Abbie has an idea: just once, they’ll work together and catch the killer. For a bunch of misfit criminals, it’s an unusual change of career, but for Finch, they’ll try.
But no sooner have they drawn up a list of suspects and found an intriguing note left near Finch’s body, than another death blows everything out of the water.
With the killer circling ever closer to the Moriarty estate, Abbie starts to realise something else even more shocking: she’s beginning to care about the found family that came with it. Can they catch the killer before it’s too late, or will she be just another Moriarty lost to the history books?
The Moriarty Murders is a cozy crime novel with a Sherlock Holmes twist that’s perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Robert Thorogood and Agatha Christie! This sharp, twisty mystery is the first in a new series from multi-million selling and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tony Lee, writing as Jack Gatland.