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The Strangest Forms

The Adventures of Holloway Holmes, Book 1

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The Strangest Forms

By: Gregory Ashe
Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
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Watson is dead. Holmes is alone. And Jack is desperate.

Sixteen-year-old Jack Moreno is managing to hold his life together. Barely. After a terrible car accident leaves his father unable to work, Jack makes ends meet by dropping out of school and covering his dad’s custodial shifts at a school for troubled teens, high in the Wasatch Mountains. Everything is going all right until the night Jack finds Sarah Watson—yes, descendant of that Watson—dead.

When the icy but intriguing Holloway Holmes—yes, descendant of that Holmes—learns of Watson’s death, he is determined to discover the killer on his own. But Jack and his father are the prime suspects in the official investigation, and Jack refuses to sit by and wait.

In an uneasy alliance with Holmes, Jack must hurry to learn what really happened to Sarah Watson, which means facing down a Moriarty, unearthing secrets and blackmail, and trying to solve the other murder at the Walker School, one that happened more than 20 years before. Working together is the only way Jack and Holmes might find the killer before he catches up with them, but both boys are keeping secrets of their own—secrets that threaten the fragile trust they’ve managed to build between them.

©2023 Gregory Ashe (P)2023 Gregory Ashe Mysteries & Detectives Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Mystery Fiction

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Enjoyable Story that is well written with likeable characters and good world building. The narration is very good as well.

Enjoyable Story

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Great story, great narration and brilliant MC’s- I thought this a brilliant listen and I highly recommend. Love this narrator too

Amazing

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I very much enjoyed this story. I liked the callbacks to Sherlock Holmes, and the plot kept me engaged and I really liked the narrator., On to book 2!

Really engaging story

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I’m a huge Gregory Ashe fan and so was thrilled when this lovely book came up.

Jack is the protagonist in the story – the entire tale is from his point of view. He’s covering for his dad working a janitorial shift at a school for troubled teens when he finds a dead body. Belonging to a student named Sarah Watson.

Now, Jack’s not one who knows how to leave well-enough alone. Plus, he and his dad are suspects. Jack tries to track down Sarah’s killer before he and his dad are railroaded into a prison sentence.
Somehow, as Jack is sifting through the clues, he meets Holloway Holmes. Yes, that Holmes. A descendent of Sherlock. Only, as the investigation unfurls, Jack becomes Holmes’s Watson.

Confused? Yeah, me too. Plus, there’s a Moriarty.

In the end, I hadn’t guessed who the killer was. I hadn’t seen a bunch of things coming, and yet everything made sense. Which is why I love Gregory Ashe’s books.

I also want to say there was a disturbing amount of violence and a lot of angst in this book. Not as much as his other books, but more than I was expecting. I had a writing teacher who used to say ‘what’s the worst thing that can happen to this character? Make it happen. What’s the next worst thing? Make that happen too.’ Seriously, but the end of the book I felt so badly for Jack – because nothing ever went his way. Well, except the very end.

Which has nicely set up the next book, if there is to be one. I can’t imagine what Jack and Holloway will get up to next – but I look forward to finding out.

Greg Tremblay narrated this book and I was thrilled. He has a wide range as a narrator, but I like when he does YA. Anyway, I’m onboard if there are more books to come.

The Curious Case of Holloway Holmes

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This was amazing! I don't know why I waited so long to read (er, listen) to this! Jack Moreno is one of my new favorite characters. He's smart, strong, and loyal. He's taking care of his dad because he's suffering from brain damage after a car accident, homeschooling himself, sort of, and trying to make money anyway he can. I don't condone his methods, and it is explained how he came to earn money the way he did, it still made me sad he had to do it.

The mystery, well, there was a lot going on and I was confused by all the moving pieces. I think mostly because I didn't know all the players yet, not in any meaningful way. It's not until the last book do you figure out these are some very messed up people.

I loved the narration which isn't a surprise since it's Greg Tremblay, amazing talent.

5 stars all around. If you're looking for a well written, intriguing mystery, this is it!

Amazing!

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