Belmont Library Mystery Book Group: Daughter of Sherlock Holmes, February 2019

DAUGHTER OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by Leonard S. Goldberg

February 14, 2019

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Born March 19, 1936, in Charleston, SC. Education: Attended the Citadel,

1953-54, and College of Charleston, 1954-56; Medical College of South

Carolina, M.D., 1959. Military/Wartime Service:U.S. Air Force, physician,

1961-63; served in Japan; became captain.

Leonard S. Goldberg is one of the leading forensic doctors in the United

States. In addition to acting as a consultant and an expert witness in medical

malpractice trials, he uses his specialized knowledge in his medical thriller

novels. The lead character in most of his books is Dr. Joanna Blalock, a

beautiful, brilliant Los Angeles forensic pathologist. Working with her lover,

police detective Jake Sinclair, Blalock investigates suspicious hospital deaths,

black-market organ transplants, and the like.

Goldberg comes back to his "Joanna Blalock" series with the 2017 novel The

Daughter of Sherlock Holmes. In this volume, he tells the story of an ancestor

of Joanna's, also named Joanna Blalock. Set in 1910, it finds this older

Joanna Blalock living with her son and her dead husband's family.

.... A highly skilled nurse with unique mental talents is recruited into the

investigative team of the elderly Dr. John Watson and his handsome son

before being swept up in a Holmesian mystery with ties to the Second Afghan

War, a hidden treasure and a murder at the highest levels of British society.

DAUGHTER OF SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES

Read-alikes (search NoveList “Sherlock Holmes pastiche’ for more)

1. A bitter truth by Charles Todd, Reason: Stalwart and smart women nurses

turned sleuths must use all their formidable skills to solve murders steeped in

family secrets, revenge, and war in these atmospheric and compelling

mysteries set in 1910's England. -- Melissa Gray

2. Dracula by Dacre Stoker, Reason: Revisit the London of much-loved

fictional universes re-imagined with a twist in these compelling and

outrageously entertaining pastiches of the horror of Dracula (Dracula: The

Undead) and the mysteries of Holmes and Watson (The Daughter of Sherlock

Holmes). -- Melissa Gray

3. A study in scarlet women by Sherry M. Thomas, Reason: These complex,

suspenseful mysteries revisit the atmospheric world of Sherlock Holmes, but

with a twist -- a distinctly female twist. Both absorbing stories star determined

and outrageously intelligent women whose identities are inextricably bound to

the Great Detective's. -- Melissa Gray

Belmont Library Mystery Book Group