There’s this one little dock area with an ice cream shop that hands out small cups of popcorn to feed to the gulls and ducks. I love walking the artisan stalls and looking at all the amazing art.ģ) Cheating, but I’d also probably take them to the coast, because it’s gorgeous. It’s awesome.Ģ) Saturday Market, which is an open arts & crafts market downtown. I think I’d take them toġ) McMenamin’s Kennedy School, which is this old elementary school that got turned into a restaurant that has bars in the principal’s office and detention hall and a theater in the gym. Portland, OR is one of my favorite cities, for sure. If you were to give Lock and Mori a guided tour of your favorite city that kept well away from tourist hotspots, what are the top three places you’d recommend never leaving the city without seeing?

I love all things Sherlock Holmes, so I'm excited to see how the relationship between these two is built and then devolves as the series progresses. Petty stopping by the blog to answer a few questions about Lock & Mori, the first book in a new series featuring a young Sherlock Holmes and his eventual sworn enemy, Miss James Moriarty. “Lock and Mori” receives a tantalizing 4 clues out of five.Today I'm thrilled to have author Heather W. Petty does a marvelous job of re-crafting a popular story and will not leave readers bored.

There would have been pages and pages in between important events and that would have been excruciating. Both Lock and Mori’s minds moved and calculated so fast there’s no way a slow plot could have been interesting. Normally I hate it when books have really fast plots, but this book needed it. If I started reading it again, I was not going to want to stop until I reached the end. Still, once I was halfway through the novel, I put it down and refused to pick it up again until I had a solid chunk of time to devote to it. Even so, I pictured a mini-Benedict Cumberbatch throughout the entire novel. This unexpected sign of humanity is really refreshing. In some ways they are the same, but in many they aren’t.įor starters, Mori is a girl and yes, it does lead to some romance, although love doesn’t take over the novel.īoth characters are in high school, leading Lock to make mistakes, and there are some clues he just can’t figure out. If you go into this novel expecting the main characters to be mini versions of themselves, you’ll be shocked. Naturally, Mori does not follow through with that part.

There’s been a murder in Regent’s Park and Lock challenges Mori to solve the mystery before he does, the only catch being they have to share every clue with each other. Petty gives beset the novel off of James Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes on their first case. Set in modern day London, “Lock and Mori” by Heather W. A new gender-bending Sherlock has made its way to bookstore shelves.

Lock & Mori by Heather W. Petty