A review by jazzlioness
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

2.0

I thought the end was clever but the topic too gruesome and depressing to be enjoyable. The writing is not very good both because Holmes looks foolish in several instances something Doyle would never have allowed and because some of the descriptions are lazy "the hallway was carpeted with flowered wallpaper." You don't carpet floors with wallpaper. There needs to be "and it had." There are several of these instances of bad proofing or odd descriptions. It felt like the author was trying to do way too much both with an axe to grind against to original and trying to incorporate references to say see, here I know my Holmes. There are so many better Holmes books than this one. Try Laurie R. King, Carole Nelson Douglass or Larry Millett to start.