Part of Lady Sherlock
First published 2023
Charlotte Holmes has a deal on the table. Recover a missing dossier for the Crown and she gets her life back. She boards the RMS Provence at Southampton, bound for the eastern hemisphere, with one objective: find the documents before anyone realizes who she is. Then the Bay of Biscay turns violent. A storm batters the ship on the same night Charlotte makes her move, and somewhere in the chaos a passenger is murdered. This is the problem. Charlotte is very good at solving murders. She has done it before, many times, under the name Sherlock Holmes, a name the world believes belongs to a man who is now dead. Stepping forward to investigate would expose her. The wrong people would learn that Sherlock Holmes is alive and still working. So Charlotte has to do something that goes against every instinct she has. She has to stand back, keep her head down, and let a killer move freely through a ship she cannot leave. A Tempest at Sea is the seventh book in Sherry Thomas's Lady Sherlock series, a bestselling reimagining of the Conan Doyle detective stories with Charlotte Holmes at the center.
Genres: historical-fiction, mystery, adult-fiction, thriller, detective
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, fast-paced, intricate, suspenseful
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, forced-inaction, hidden-identity, locked-setting
Setting: RMS Provence, Southampton, Bay of Biscay, Eastern Hemisphere
Period: 19th-century, Edwardian Era
353 pages · Paperback · Berkley
Content warnings: murder