Jackaby

4.75 actually. Yes, it's been heavily influenced by both Steven Moffat's Sherlock and Doctor Who, and that is precisely why I loved it. I found myself actually laughing at quite a bit of this story, and while much of it feels like set up for a series (yay!), I loved the original elements here too. The supporting characters are all pretty unique, as well as the setting (a fictitious town in New England, circa 1892).

My favorite quote:

It wasn't that I did not believe in ghosts; it was that I believed in them in the same noncommittal way that I believed in giant squids or lucky coins or Belgium. pg 82

I kind of can't wait for more, and thought the mystery was pretty decent overall.