Enola Holmes, the other detective.

While we were watching Sherlock on Netflix earlier this summer, my daughter asked if I had ever read the "Sister Books".  I had no idea what she was talking about.

Didn't I know Millie Bobby Brown was going to play the sister of Sherlock Holmes in a new film?  Isn't Millie Bobby Brown the perfect actor to play a detective? Will she be telekinetic in the Enola Holmes movies? Did I have the Enola Holmes books in the library?
 The answer to all of these questions was no, and so off I went to the Lincoln Public Libraries to check out Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes series.


As I began The Case of the Missing Marquess, my daughter spotted the book and deftly ripped it
from my hands.  Luckily, Amazon exists, and within minutes I was reading on my kindle while my kiddo curled up in the couch with the hardback.

"Deeper and deeper into the shadows and East London dockside slums, she walks on. Alone.." (p.3)

After a quick. mysterious prologue, we meet Enola.  In her first sentence she queries, "I would very much like to know why my mother named me 'Enola,' which, backwards, spells alone." We know immediately we are in for an interesting mother daughter relationship.

When "Mum", Lady Eudoria Vernet Holmes, disappears on Enola's fourteenth birthday the mystery begins and we follow Enola's search for the truth.

I have read the first two books in the series.  I am already dreading reaching the sixth, because Enola is a champion for independence and savvy.  I want to follow her far in to the future to see what she can accomplish as she reaches adulthood.  Purchasing all six books for my library and eagerly awaiting the film adaptations!