missingvolume | #41 A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles #1) by Claire O'Dell

This is set in a future America that is in the middle of a second civil war and uses some of the framework of Sherlock Holmes to talk about it. Watson is a disabled army doctor missing one arm and her prosthetic arm doesn’t work well enough to allow her to work as a surgeon. Sherlock and Watson are introduced to each other by a mutual friend that does show up again and again in the story. Sherlock is moodier in this one and Watson is dealing with PTSD and underemployment at the VA. The story works well in the framework of the Holmes type of setting, but things are changed to fit the new setting and even by the story the mystery is solved but the societal things have not been changed that much. A decent SF near future dystopian story that uses the Holmes and Watson motif but doesn’t slavishly follow it to the letter.

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