The Late Irene Adler: a Victorian thriller

Twelve years after outwitting Sherlock Holmes, the cleverest woman in Europe faces the one case she cannot afford to lose: her own.London, 1890. Irene Adler lives in retirement under a name that is not her own. But someone is murdering, one by one, the members of a private club, and leaves on every body the same signature: a pressed violet and a few bars of an old opera. Every clue points to her.To escape the gallows for crimes she did not commit, Irene must trace the thread back to a night in Warsaw in 1878, a file she believed buried, and a dead man who refuses to stay dead. Along the way she will meet an inspector who risks his career for her, a journalist who looks at her too long, and a housekeeper with more secrets than the diva herself.A Victorian thriller of revenge, false identities, and impossible twists, told in the unforgettable voice of the one woman who was always, to Sherlock Holmes, the woman.