Red Leech (Young Sherlock)Sherlock knows that Amyus Crow, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark secrets. But he didn't expect to find a notorious killer, hanged by the US government, apparently alive and well in Surrey and Crow somehow mixed up in it. When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk all to discover it for yourself. And so begins an adventure that will take Sherlock across the ocean to America, to the centre of a deadly web where life and

and uncompromising creation

dissecting their weaknesses with cruel precision: his sister's deformity

From the first sentence of her open letter to Osama Bin Laden

until it all unravels and he finds himself simultaneously accused of almost bringing down the global economy and of the murder of Kaz Day

foreign eye the intricate daily life of the town I reduced to a series of encounters - chance and sometimes fortuitous meetings with strangers David is an opportunist seducer

conspiring against them - and the truth may bring them both to ruin

a series of mistaken identities and a murder huntall connected to a recently docked ship from the Indian subcontinent

Born in poverty

Audrey and Arthur have escaped the horrors of Jupiter's lair and sought refuge in the countryside with their apparently mad friend Madam Akkikuyu

But in a town filled with secrets and rumours

in October 2012

including an unhelpful consul