The September Society by Charles Finch

Ok, I work @ Wally World. Long long story, not my ideal job but the first one that called for an interview and I hadn't worked in town in so long I wasn't sure how much I could do physically or mentally (especially after lyme disease). It's been a pain @ times but a blast, my kids want me to keep working because it keeps me busy (translation: mama is occupied with something other than ebay and painting) and husband likes the grocery money I bring in.
Why do I bring this up? Because I started The September Society at work on my breaks and lunch hours this week. I didn't get far (maybe because of all the talk in the breakroom) and wasn't really into it or impressed @ first but last night I started reading about 11 or so and finished it @ 2 am. Charles Finch is no Sir Arthur Conan Doyle but he's good. The comparison to Sherlock Holmes is inevitable as Lenox the dectective in The September Society is in London and doing his dectective work in the 1800s. Finch does manage to interject a little of the Jane Austen novel into his Holmes like work which makes it more enjoyable I think if not true to the detective genre. Boy I'm coming up with the big words aren't I? tee hee hee..... Seriously a good light read for a cold winters evening or two. The clues seem a little more far fetched than Holmes do but I read most of the Sherlock Holmes stories as a child so I may look on them with more nostalgia than anything I read now.
Here's a link to amazon where you can buy the book for one of those winter nights.