REVIEW: A Ruse of Shadows by Sherry Thomas

This entry, the eighth in the Lady Sherlock series, begins with Charlotte Holmes being interrogated in her London hotel room by recently unretired Chief Inspector John Talbot and his erstwhile protege Inspector Treadles. Treadles is ambivalent – he is an ally (and perhaps after a long period of ambivalence, a friend) of Charlotte/Sherlock, and so he’s less thrilled than he would normally be to be working again with the Chief Inspector.

Charlotte, as usual, seems to be calm and unperturbed by th...