num_pages: 317
description: Watson and Holmes: A match made in disaster.Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a winter-break reprieve after a fall semester that almost got them killed. But Charlotte isnt the only Holmes with secrets and the mood at her familys Sussex estate is palpably tense. On top of everything else Holmes and Watson could be becoming more than friendsbut still the darkness in Charlottes past is a wall between them.A distraction arises soon enough because Charlottes beloved uncle Leander goes missing from the estateafter being oddly private about his latest assignment in a German art forgery ring. The game is afoot once again and Charlotte is single-minded in her pursuit.Their first stop? Berlin. Their first contact? August Moriarty (formerly Charlottes obsession currently believed by most to be dead) whose powerful family has been ripping off famous paintings for the last hundred years. But as they follow the gritty underground scene in Berlin to glittering art houses in Prague Holmes and Watson begin to realize that this is a much more complicated case than a disappearance. Much more dangerous too.What they learn might change everything they know about their families themselves and each other.
language: English
title: The Last of August
publisher: Katherine Tegen Books