The House at Baker Street

'I loved The House at Baker Street. This is the perfect post-Sherlock book: warm, compassionate, intelligent, with plot and language crafted in the style of the Master Conan Doyle himself. Martha Hudson and Mary Watson step off the page, finally given the life they always needed. It's the kind of book any of us would be proud to have written, but to have done so as a debut is little short of exceptional. Michelle Birkby is a name to watch as she rises to literary stardom - and I can already feel the television adaptation on the way'Manda Scott, author of the Rome and Boudica series

Cleverly incorporating much-loved elements of the original Conan Doyle novels, this is a witty feminist take on the crime classicThe Lady