Moriarty

By: Anthony Horowitz

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt

“Anthony Horowitz throws down the gauntlet in his infernally clever Sherlock Holmes pastiche.” — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

The game is once again afoot in this thrilling mystery from internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz, sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate, that explores what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty tumbled to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls.

Horowitz’s nail-biting novel plunges us back into the dark and complex world of detective Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty—dubbed the Napoleon of crime” by Holmes—in the aftermath of their fateful struggle at the Reichenbach Falls.

Days after the encounter at the Swiss waterfall, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. Moriarty’s death has left an immediate, poisonous vacuum in the criminal underworld, and there is no shortage of candidates to take his place—including one particularly fiendish criminal mastermind.

Chase and Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes’s methods of investigation and deduction originally introduced by Conan Doyle in “The Sign of Four”, must forge a path through the darkest corners of England’s capital—from the elegant squares of Mayfair to the shadowy wharfs and alleyways of the London Docks—in pursuit of this sinister figure, a man much feared but seldom seen, who is determined to stake his claim as Moriarty’s successor.

A riveting, deeply atmospheric tale of murder and menace from one of the only writers to earn the seal of approval from Conan Doyle’s estate, Moriarty breathes life into Holmes’s dark and fascinating world.

Read, don't listen

The American accents are unforgivable. The story is meh in the telling--the dynamic between the new pseudo-Watson and pseudo-Holmes feeling a bit unbelievable in the reading of it--an annoying experience. This is mitigated somewhat by the twist toward the end. However I do often find twists to be cheap gimmicks, and can't make up my mind about this one....bookclub , where are you when I need you?!?

😮 <— my actual face

This book started as your standard Sherlock novel and then got more and more shocking. I absolutely loved it! Fantastic writing!!!

Great story!

Just like the good old fashioned Sherlock Holmes novels. Horowitz does the novels justice. Great storyline

Unfortunate plot twist

I was enjoying the book until the plot twist. After that I lost interest and had no desire to keep listening. Some listeners may find the twist brilliant, but there's something about offing characters the reader has become attached to at the end of the book that feels more like a gimmick than anything else. It was an emotional manipulation that didn't work for me. I've really enjoyed Anthony Horowitz's other books and enjoyed this to a point and then didn't care about listening to the end.

The twist at the end and how it unwinds setting up future novels

The dialogue and accents were cringy at times and overly dramatic for the sake of drama.