About the book: 2013 / The story is notable for the fact that we see the events and the role of the great detective Sherlock Holmes in them not through the eyes of Dr. Watson. This is extremely rare. The author calls the main character, Grisel Rowntree, the English equivalent of his favorite Appalachian Ballads character, the medicine woman Nora Bonesteel. “I had the pleasure of making Griselle Rowntree every bit as insightful and eccentric as Sherlock Holmes,” she says.