The Spiritglass Charade (Stoker & Holmes, #2)
Colleen Gleason
After the Affair of the Clockwork Scarab, Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes are eager to help Princess Alix with a new case. Seventeen-year-old Willa Aston is obsessed with spiritual mediums, convinced she is speaking with her mother from beyond the grave. What seems like a case of spiritualist fraud quickly devolves into something far more menacing: someone is trying to make Willa "appear lunatic," using an innocent-looking spiritglass to control her. The list of clues piles up: an unexpected murder, a gang of pickpockets, and the return of vampires to London. But are these events connected? As Uncle Sherlock would say, "there are no coincidences." It will take all of Mina's wit and Evaline's muscle to keep London's sinister underground at bay.
Publication Year: 2014
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0 I reviewed the first volume of this series on a previous post and everything I said about that book applies for this one.
The descriptions of steampunk 1889 London are fantastic, the characters are intelligent, strong and the story interesting.
In this second volume we also see change in the relationship between Evaline and Mina, they are getting to know one another better and learning to work together, which in turn leads to some fun exchanges between them as they now know how to better provoke/respond to each other.
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