I read an audiobook in two days.
Who DOES that? Thank goodness for fasting and the New York subway.
Thomas does something interesting here where she gets the setting and language very right and then uses it to tell a 21st century detective story. These are not cozy mysteries and there is a feel to the topics/bluntness of the text that is - deliberately, I think - out of sync with the language. It’s as if Thomas is asking “what if they spoke about the things we speak about” and then wrote that story.
Also, Charlotte Holmes is excellent and I really liked how different she and Mrs. Watson and everyone is from the original while still filling the correct narrative hole.
Obviously I just bought the next book.