Rob Ryan Knihy

Dr John Watson has another case to solve - this time it's murder on the home front. A stunning Dr Watson thriller from the author of Dead Man's Land

The year is 1917 and Major John Watson is held in a notorious prisoner of war camp deep in Germany, there as Medical Officer for the British prisoners. With the Allied blockade of Germany, food is perilously short in the camp and when a new prisoner is murdered all assume the poor chap was killed for his Red Cross parcel. Watson, though, isn't so sure. Something isn't quite what it seems and a creeping feeling of unease tells Watson there is more to this than meets the eye. And when an escape plot is apparently uncovered in his hut and he is sent to solitary confinement, he knows he has touched a nerve. If Watson is to reveal the heinous crimes that have occurred at the camp, he must escape before he is silenced for good. All he needs is some long-distance help from Sherlock Holmes...

A stunning thriller and “a page-turning read” (Daily Mail) set in the trenches of World War I featuring beloved literary character and Sherlock Holmes’s sidekick Dr. John Watson. Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying by the thousands every day…so one more death shouldn’t be a surprise. But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and Sherlock Holmes’s former sidekick Dr. John Watson finds his suspicions raised. The victim’s jaw was clamped shut in a terrible rictus and facial expression suggested that the man had seen unimaginable horror. Something is terribly wrong. But this is just the beginning. Soon more bodies appear, and Watson must discover who is the killer in the trenches. But who can he trust? Surrounded by unimaginable carnage, amidst a conflict that’s ripping the world apart, Watson must step out of the shadows and into the limelight if he’s to stop a brutal killer before he strikes again.

Rob Ryan s art delicate, colourful, playful, and evocative brings sophisticated layers of emotion to simple vignettes with universal appeal.

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