Lock & Mori
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
In modern-day London, two brilliant high school students meet. A murder will bring them together. The truth very well might drive them apart.
You know their names. Now discover their beginnings.
Someone has been murdered in London’s Regent’s Park, and sixteen-year-old Lock has challenged his classmate Mori to solve the crime before he does. His only rule: they must share every clue with each other.
Mori reluctantly agrees, but what begins as fun and games quickly becomes sinister. As she gets closer to solving the case—and more and more drawn to Lock—she discovers that the murder is connected to her own past. Now she’s keeping secrets from Lock, her family, and her best friend, secrets with dire consequences.
To save herself and loved ones, Mori is prepared to take matters into her own hands. Will Lock be standing by her side when it’s all over? That’s one mystery Mori cannot solve.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Petty debuts with a suspenseful, sure-footed mystery, set in present-day London and starring a teenage Holmes and Moriarty. The narrator, James "Mori" Moriarty, meets the absent-minded, egotistical, and truth-obsessed "Lock" at school. They are both curious, analytical observers, so when they learn of a bizarre murder, in which a man is found stabbed with his hands in his pockets, they decide to investigate. The teens are both unmoored: Lock's mother is ill, and Mori's father has been abusing Mori and her brothers ever since their mother died six months ago. Lock and Mori initially promise to keep no secrets from each other, but when Mori suspects her mother may have been involved with this and other murders, she withholds information, putting both teens in harm's way. The chemistry between the protagonists is at the heart of the story, and their sparring relationship predictably, but enjoyably, develops into romance. While some readers may guess the killer's identity early on, this is still a quick-moving mystery distinguished by clear writing, memorable imagery, and some keen insights into human fragility. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
Not the Sherlock Holmes Story You’re Looking For
**I won a copy of this book from Chapters**
I went into this book not knowing anything about it, other than it was based off of Sherlock and there was a female Moriarty, which is obvious from the cover. Now, I love everything Sherlock Holmes related and this fact is what made me put aside everything else and dive into the book. Unfortunately, I was disappointed.
It's not that it was poorly written. The writing seems perfectly alright to me. It's that it was not a retelling of Sherlock with Sherlock and his arch-nemesis Mori as much as a fanfiction where the two characters, of course, abruptly fall in love with each other.
The whole thing was also rather predictable from the murder mystery to everything else. I figured out the mystery very early on in the book. I'd like to say that it was because I'm a super sleuth or something, but, I'm not. Everything was just practically spelled out. Along with that, the mystery was solved half way through the book. The rest was just nonsense filled with horrible decisions.
Maybe my expectations were set a little too high based off other retellings, but I wouldn't recommend this book. For a debut novel, the writing style is good, and the author does have some great ideas. They just don't work in this novel.