Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Release Date: January 6, 2025
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Source: Publisher
Genre: Thrillers / Suspense
Success has come quickly to Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. The New York City agency led by three detectives—Brendan Holmes, “the brain,” Margaret Marple, “the eyes,” and Auguste Poe, the “muscle”—with famous names and mysterious pasts is one major case away from cementing its professional reputation.
But as a series of child abductions tests the PIs’ legendary skills, the cerebral Holmes’s absence leaves a gaping hole in the agency roster.
Only by closing ranks and solving the mystery within can they recover all that’s been lost.
But as a series of child abductions tests the PIs’ legendary skills, the cerebral Holmes’s absence leaves a gaping hole in the agency roster.
Only by closing ranks and solving the mystery within can they recover all that’s been lost.
Holmes Is Missing is the second installment in James Patterson and Brian Sitts's Holmes, Margaret, and Poe series. This series features Auguste Poe, Margaret Maple, and Brendon Holmes. As the story opens, Holmes is not missing but self-isolating, trying to break a decades-long addiction to heroin. Meanwhile, Holmes, Marple, and Poe Investigations, along with their assistant Virginia, gets involved in what appears to be a child kidnapping ring. 6 newborns have been stolen from the nursery.
Margaret believes this is the time to visit Holmes at the rehab in Ithaca, New York, and convince him he needs to help with this case. Holmes comes back with them, but he doesn’t feel he can help them with his case. In fact, I dare call him a whiney crybaby for much of the story. Until he meets a mysterious man who may know a bit too much about him and his mother. This "wannabee" true crime writer may have sinister intentions of his own.
His cure for heroin is the prescription drug buprenorphine and he’s certain that the side effects dull his hyper-cognition to the point that he can’t make the extremely rapid connections that his partners need him to make as the ‘brains’ of their team. So, Poe, Maple, and Detective Helene Grey, who has a few surprises of her own, try their best to solve this case, which ends up being connected to two other abductions, one in England.
While Holmes is dealing with his issues, and Poe, surprisingly, has some new ones to deal with, Maple is the voice of reason and stability. Oh, and let's give Virginia credit where credit is deserved. She has been a steady addition to the team, and perhaps she will end up being more involved since the authors stunned me with the cliffhanger ending, which means that even more sinister things are on the road ahead.
Without spoiling the event, the cast ends up at an author signing, and it's a hoot, especially when the authors of this book toss in some really big names to antagonize Poe, Holmes, and Maple.
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