Top Sherlock Holmes Books

by Lyndsay Faye

Faye’s debut novel faithfully captures period flavor, though a lighter touch would have been welcome at times. Her greater... Full review >

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by Mitch Cullin

A talented writer’s bold step forward. Let’s hope Cullin isn’t finished with Sherlock Holmes. Full review >

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by Larry Millett

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by Alan Vanneman

The premise promises some visceral chills, but the awkward prose could use more speed and less help from the thesaurus.... Full review >

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by Laurie R. King

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edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Jon Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower

The volume closes with Walsh’s irrelevant essay on Doyle’s anti-Irish streak; Christopher Redmond’s account of the author’s... Full review >

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edited by Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger

Enough variety for the dabbler, together with enough reverence for the canon to appeal to the true Holmes addict. Full review >

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by Ted Riccardi

Riccardi (The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, 2003) brings variety and clever roman à clef strokes to this volume... Full review >

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edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Jon L. Ellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh

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by Michael Kurland

The fourth Moriarty novel by the prolific Kurland (The Great Game, 2001, etc.) carries forward the never-ending franchise... Full review >

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by Caleb Carr

We needed this, from Sherlock Holmes? No thanks. Full review >

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by Carole Nelson Douglas

Like its seven predecessors (Femme Fatale, 2003, etc.), a paean to women’s audacity, pugnacity and street smarts, told with... Full review >

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by John R. King

Sherlockians may quibble at their hero’s fallibility, but King (The Angel of Death in Chicago, 2008, etc.) could well create... Full review >

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