What REALLY happened after Moriarty went over the Reichenbach Falls?? Conan Doyle brought Sherlock back to life (due to popular demand), but his arch-nemesis was never heard from again. Well now the story continues! In Moriarty, UK sensation, Anthony Horowitz, has created a world post-Moriarty/pre-Sherlock's resurrection where London faces an evil the likes of which Scotland Yard has never seen…
Days after the incident at the Swiss waterfall, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. Moriarty’s death has left an immediate, and incredibly poisonous vacuum in the criminal underworld, and there is no shortage of candidates to take his place—including one particularly fiendish criminal mastermind, Clarence Devereux.
Chase and Inspector Athelney Jones of Scotland Yard, a devoted student of Holmes’s methods of investigation originally introduced by Conan Doyle in “The Sign of Four”, must forge a path through the darkest corners of London 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, Moriarty breathes life into Conan Doyle’s dark and fascinating world once again. So much excitement for this book! Lots of librarian chatter on Earlyword's galley chat, and Horowitz was just announced as the author for the next James Bond novel! Very cool!
– Annie