Mrs Holmes tells the incredible story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer and
detective who solved the famous cold case of Ruth Cruger, an 18-year-old
girl who disappeared in 1917. Grace was an amazing lawyer and travelling
detective during a time when no women were practising in the legal
profession. She focused on solving cases no one else wanted and
advocating for innocents. Grace became the first female US District
Attorney and made ground-breaking investigations into the practice of
modern slavery. In the Ruth Cruger case, Grace followed a trail of
corruption that led from New York to Italy. Her work changed how the
country viewed the problem of missing girls. But the victory came with a
price: she learned all too well what happens when one woman upstages the
entire Establishment. In the literary tradition of Truman Capote's In
Cold Blood and Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, this is a true
crime tale told in spine-tingling fashion. Gruce Humiston is a figure
whose work was so impressive that the papers gave her the nickname of
fiction's greatest sleuth, dubbing her 'Mrs Holmes'. With important
repercussions in the present about kidnapping, the complicit role of the
media and the truth of crime stories, the great mystery of the book -
and its haunting twist - is how one woman can become so famous only to
disappear completely.
