Claire O'Dell grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the years of the Vietnam War and the Watergate Scandal. She attended high school just a few miles from the house where Mary Surratt once lived and where John Wilkes Booth planned for Lincoln to die. All this might explain why she spent so much time in the history and political science departments at college. Claire currently lives in Manchester, Connecticut, with her family and two idiosyncratic cats.
“O’Dell’s prose is sharp and clean, rising at times to the poetic,
and her near-future Washington DC feels like a real city. The USA
of A Study in Honor is a place with deep political divisions, and
some of that comes into play in this story. It feels appropriately
complicated as a future, and not a simplistic future vision of
now.” — Locus Magazine
“Readers who pick this up for the novelty of Watson and Holmes as
black women will be impressed by how well O’Dell realizes them as
full, rich characters. This is a real treat for fans of Conan Doyle
and SF mysteries.” — Publishers Weekly
“If you like dystopian future narratives, queer romance, and
Sherlock Holmes, you’ll adore A Study in Honor.” — LitHub
“In this intriguing and fresh twist on the Sherlock Holmes mythos,
O’Dell brings a heady mix of dystopian sf and strong female
protagonists in the first of a new series.” — Library Journal
“I may be a sucker for a good Dr. Watson, or maybe Claire O’Dell
(an open pseudonym for Beth Bernobich) has just written a hell of a
good novel, because A Study in Honor turns out to be one of those
books I find impossible to put down. I want the sequel
immediately.” — Tor.com
“A gritty, fast-paced investigation with a memorable and compelling
duo of main characters. I can’t wait to see what Janet and Sara get
up to next.” — Aliette de Bodard, Nebula-award winning
author of The House of Binding Thorns and The Tea Master and the
Detective
“A Study in Honor is a fast-moving, diverse science-fictional
Holmes and Watson reinterpretation set in near future Washington
DC. As a deliciously intersectional makeover of a famous
literary duo it’s enormously satisfying. Clean, clear, and
vastly enjoyable.” — Nicola Griffith, Lambda Literary award-winning
author of So Lucky
“An entertaining and empathetic dystopian procedural that navigates
the capital of an America at war with itself, tracking the path to
recovery from personal and national trauma.” — Christopher Brown,
author of Tropic of Kansas
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