Joanna and her Watsons return in book 3 with an unexpected arrival on a very unlikely night. Despite the raging storm, Dr. Verner feels it is most important to tell someone about the patient he just encountered. Fearing for his life, Joanna gives Dr. Verner very strict instructions, but unfortunately Dr. Verner is lost. Now Joanna and the Watsons must find out why he was killed so they can save another soul and save England in World War One.
I enjoy Joanna probably a bit more than her father, Sherlock. She doesn't have the same disregard for emotions like Sherlock did. Plus she puts a high value throughout the novel on Johnny's education at Eton whereas I cannot see Sherlock agreeing with her. She's more personable but still stand offish in a way that makes her mysterious. The similarities extend to her reasoning as she is still as methodical as Sherlock. However, she doesn't take as much risk as Sherlock would have, and I think that the mother in her reminding herself that she has a child.
It's difficult to say what I didn't like about it, because there wasn't much. As mentioned above, there is a side bit about Johnny, but it does nothing for the overall plot of the story. Maybe if it had more substance to the novel then I would have given this a 5 star rating. As it is, I have to say that Leonard Goldberg's Daughter of Sherlock Holmes series has a distinctive treason-esque style to it. It's like a combination of Sherlock Holmes and Tom Clancy.
Overall I enjoyed the novel and it's plot, but there was just a small distraction with Joanna's son that I had to rate it 4 out of 5 stars.
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