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Bonnie MacBird

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Bonnie MacBird has been a screenwriter (TRON), studio executive (Universal) producer (three Emmys), a playwright and a classically trained actor. She taught writing at UCLA Extension's Writers' Program, and is a regular speaker on writing, creativity, and Sherlock Holmes.

She has five Sherlock Holmes novels, out now: ART IN THE BLOOD (2015), UNQUIET SPIRITS (2017) and THE DEVIL'S DUE (2019), THE THREE LOCKS (2020) and WHAT CHILD IS THIS? (2021). A sixth is in work. All are for HarperCollins

MacBird lives in Los Angeles and London
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Bonnie MacBird I'm currently working on the next book in my Holmes series for HarperCollins. It's called UNQUIET SPIRITS, and has to do with ghosts, whisky, and a se…moreI'm currently working on the next book in my Holmes series for HarperCollins. It's called UNQUIET SPIRITS, and has to do with ghosts, whisky, and a secret in Holmes' past.
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Bonnie MacBird Bringing along a small kit of modern pharmaceuticals, I'd journey to Victorian London and try to convince Sherlock Holmes to take me on as another "assistant".
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Hello!

Hello and I hope to meet fellow Sherlockians, mystery buffs, and those who love Victorian thrillers. When I read a book set in the past, one of the delights for me is the research, the sense of time and place: the technology, the foods, the news events, the social trends, the weather, the clothes, I want to be transported. In ART IN THE BLOOD,set in 1888, Holmes and Watson encounter Bohemian Paris Read more of this blog post »
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“There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgement of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.’ —Abraham Lincoln”
Bonnie MacBird, The Devil’s Due

“It is well known that in exchange for visionary powers, artists often suffer with extreme sensitivity and violent changeability of temperament. A philosophical crisis, or simply boredom of inactivity, could send [Holmes] spinning into a paralysed gloom from which [I] could not retrieve him.”
Bonnie MacBird, Art in the Blood

“Watson, there are those rare people who elicit behaviour from us that others may not. Let me suggest that you were one man on the battlefield, another with your patients, a third altogether with Mary and perhaps a fourth in my company, for example?'
'No, Holmes. I am always myself. Well, perhaps I smoke less around Mary.'
He smiled at this.
'But whatever the situation, I try always to be the best man I can be.”
Bonnie MacBird, Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder

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