A Scandal in Battersea

Elemental Masters, Book 12

By: Mercedes Lackey

Narrated by: Gemma Dawson

The 12th novel in Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series reimagines Sherlock Holmes in a richly detailed alternate 20th-century England

Christmas is a very special time of year. It is special for Psychic Nan Killian and Medium Sarah Lyon-White and their ward, Suki, who are determined to celebrate it properly. It is special for their friends, Doctor John Watson, and his wife, Mary, both Elemental Masters, who have found great delight in the season seeing it through young Suki's eyes.

It is also special to others...for very different reasons.

For Christmas Eve is also hallowed to dark forces, powers older than mankind, powers that come awake on this, the Longest Night. Powers best left alone. Powers that could shake the foundations of London and beyond.

It begins slowly. Women disappearing in the dark of night, women only missed by those of their own kind. The whispers only begin when they start to reappear - because when they do, they are no longer sane. And when Nan and Sarah and the Watsons are called on to examine these victims, they discover that it was no ordinary horror of the streets that drove them mad.

But then, the shadows reach for other victims - girls of good, even exalted families, who vanish from concerts, lectures, and evening balls. And it will take the combined forces of magic, psychic powers, and the world's greatest detective to stop the darkness before it can conquer all.

©2017 Mercedes Lackey (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Good Story- better if read in order

The narrator was great. I would have enjoyed the story a little more if I had read the ones that preceded it.

Another triumph for Ms Lackey

Yet again we visit our favorite psychics and a delightful Sherlock and crew. Lovely narration, chillingly good fun just in time for Halloween

Damon Alexa

The story is as great as anything Ms lackey writes; good plot, good development, great characters.
But the main antagonist 's name is too close to "Alexa" and it keeps wanting to answer.
My tablet(7" , 7th gen) kept speaking up all throughout this book

Great story.

great story, but once again the ending seemed not to tie up the loose endsm

fingernail chewing

it kept me on the edge of my seat. I kept talking to the characters but they, of course, would not listen to me