Nothing is as visceral as holding a handful of human ash. I resist the impulse to sift it between my fingers as I walk. Everyone, from the mourners to the pastor, are far away and yet too close.

I never wanted to be a hitman. To take lives for money. Then I met Frank.

Mother and Daughter had repeated this routine every school day since Jessie was five years old but today was the day Jessie started “Big School” as her mother embarrassingly insisted on telling everyone they had met for the past three months.

When Max was killed and buried and a shallow grave, he thought his troubles would be over. He was wrong. He’s just realized he’s a vampire, and he sucks at it.

Growing old is cruel. I don't recommend it to anyone. It's like snow in summer. Unseemly and ridiculous.

Hot on the trail of master criminal Flambeau, the head of the Paris police arrives in London, where he begins to notice small things out of place.

The last thing he expects to see is a man in front of the third story men’s bathroom window.

"I watched as the man I saw so clearly disappeared into the endless white."

How do you catch someone who is falling into their own mind?

When Percy is seventeen, his life changes irrevocably, from one moment to the next

Angie helps her brothers make a hole for a fence post.

A man seeks Holmes' advice after his wife becomes terrified at the appearance of a series of drawings of dancing men.

The Prime Minister asks Holmes to investigate the theft of a letter of exceptional diplomatic importance.

The first case Holmes ever solved - while at university, he helps out a friend who's father is dying of nervousness following a visit from an ex-shipmate who seems to hold some power over him.

A university friend asks Holmes to help explain the disappearance of a butler shortly after he had been discovered taking an interest in a strange family ritual.