Review: The Back to Front Murder by Tim Major

Synopsis: May 1898: Sherlock Holmes investigates a murder stolen from a writer’s research.

Abigail Moone presents an unusual problem at Baker Street. She is a writer of mystery stories under a male pseudonym, and gets her ideas following real people and imagining how she might kill them and get away with it. It’s made her very successful, until her latest “victim” dies, apparently of the poison method she meticulously planned in her notebook. Abigail insists she is not responsible, and that someone is trying to frame her for his death. With the evidence stacking up against her, she begs Holmes to prove her innocence…

I have read a number of books, by a number of authors, who have taken on the mantle of writing new Holmes & Watson books. Many have failed to meet with my expectations; others have done so admirably. This is one of the latter. It actually felt as if the words came from Conan Doyle's own pen - all the nuances that I remembered from my own collection of Sherlockian literature were there.

Major's book is one of many in the Titan Books stables of authors taking on the Holmes genre - but this is the first from that group that I have read. It is not an overly long read, and there is a little twist at the end. I look forward to reading more from both this and other authors under the Titan Books umbrella.

Edit: you can read about Tim's journey here @ Crimereads