When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to investigate a mysterious death at Holyroodhouse Palace in Edinburgh, the case arrives through an unusual channel—Holmes’s influential brother, Mycroft Holmes. Acting on behalf of the British government, Mycroft hints that the matter may have...

It’s been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and old rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father, an architect as cruel as he was revered, dies. His death offers an...