Review

The Disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth

A Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mystery

by Leonard Goldberg

Release date: June11th, 2019

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I received a complimentary ARC copy of The Disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth
A Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Leonard Goldberg from NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press/MacMillan in order to read and give an honest review.

” A face-paced, intelligent and brilliant read that will keep you turning pages…”

In this instalment of the Daughter of Sherlock Holmes series, the daughter of the now deceased Sherlock Holmes is yet pulled into another investigation. A visit from an old colleague of Watson’s and his subsequent murder put the ball in motion.  Joanna Blalock along with Sherlock’s old partner Watson and Watson’s son, set on a mission to save a WWI a kidnapped British cryptographer, Alistair Ainsworth, from the Germans before he is forced to reveal secrets that could put the country…

This is my first Kristin Hannah book. She’s the writer of the super popular WW2 book, The Nightingale but I was so tired of the many WW2 books on the market, that I just decided to give that a pass. 13 year old Leni Allbright and her family move to Alaska and go off the grid as a possible cure for her father, Ernt’s illness. He just came back from Vietnam and is suffering from PTSD. He is extremely paranoid and volatile. At first, they do well in Alaska, they moved to Alaska during the summer so extremely longer days and shorter nights. Their neighbors are super welcoming and pitch in to prepare them for the winter coming. Winter shows up bringing with it a lot of darkness and snow, Ernt’s mental state starts deteriorating all over again and the family starts falling apart. Leni and her mother have to…

Instead of giving you one review this week, I want to do a quick run down of the last 4 books I read. I did this last year and if you guys like it I can probably do it every quarter or something. Just let me know in the comments. So without further ado, here are four books you’ll either want to add to your TBR immediately or decide to drop from your list!

1. Maybe In Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid:

“I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn’t end up with you.” 

I loved “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” so I decided to give Reid’s backlist titles a try. At 29, Hannah Martin moves back to Los Angeles after…