Praise for Laurie R. No reader who opens this one will be disappointed. Mary Russell, an intelligent young woman, becomes the apprentice of Sherlock Holmes. Russell heads for Oxford to resume her long-delayed studies when she comes face-to-face with a young Japanese woman who is not all that she seems. The last thing Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, need is to help an old friend with her mad, missing aunt.
Lady Vivian Beaconsfield has spent most of her adult life in one asylum after another, since the loss of her brother and father in the Great War. Together, the two travel from the grim confines of Bedlam to the murky canals of Venice—only to find the shadow of Benito Mussolini darkening the fate of a city, an era, and a tormented English lady of privilege. King as the preeminent Holmes writer working today. Laurie King brings her always amazing imagination to the page to enthrall readers, as only she can do.
This ranks as one of the better recent installments in this popular series. Seventeen-year-old Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends, but after moving from Rhode Island to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes that uncovering something buried in her memory might save her family and her future.
King reveals an unforgettable new twist in the adventure that led supersleuth Sherlock Holmes to discover his first and finest apprentice, Mary Russell. Sherlock Holmes is fending off a particularly dark mood as he roams the Sussex Downs, in search of wild bees. Holmes instantly spots her remarkable ability, but his sharp eyes also see troubling problems. Why is this wealthy orphan who lives with her aunt so shabbily dressed?
Why is she so prone to illness and accident? Is she herself the center of a mystery? Skip to content. The Beekeeper s Apprentice. Author : Laurie R. The Beekeeper s Apprentice Book Review:. A Monstrous Regiment of Women. Justice Hall. Justice Hall Book Review:.
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Don't buy this book if: 1. You don't have nerves of steel. You expect to get pregnant in the next five minutes. You've heard it all. The Beekeeper's Apprentice In , Sherlock Holmes and his fifteen-year-old protege Mary Russell are called to Wales to help Scotland Yard find the kidnapped daughter of an American senator, a case of international significance with clues that dip deep into Holmes's past.
Her attentions turn to the New Temple of God and its leader, a charismatic suffragette and a mystic. When four bluestockings from the Temple turn up dead shortly after changing their wills, could sins of a capital nature be afoot?
A Letter of Mary It is Mary Russell Holmes and Sherlock Holmes are visited by an old friend, an archaeologist just returned from Palestine. She leaves in their protection an ancient, controversial manuscript. When their friend is suddenly killed in a tragic accident, Russell and Holmes find themselves on the trail of a fiendishly clever murderer.
The Moor In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons Mary Russell to aid the investigation of a death and some disturbing phenomena of a decidedly supernatural origin. There have been sightings of a spectral coach made of bones carrying a woman long-ago accused of murdering her husband--and of a hound with a single glowing eye.
Returning to the scene of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes and Russell investigate a mystery darker and more unforgiving than the moors themselves. Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award It is and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance.
Independent at last, with a passion for divinity and detective work, her most baffling mystery may now involve Holmes and the burgeoning of a deeper affection between herself and the retired detective. Russell's attentions turn to the New Temple of God and its leader, Margery Childe, a charismatic suffragette and a mystic, whose draw on the young theology scholar is irresistible.
But when four bluestockings from the Temple turn up dead shortly after changing their wills, could sins of a capital nature be afoot? Sherlock Holmes, retired from detective work and currently pursuing a reclusive study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs, enters into an unlikely friendship with a brilliant teenage girl, Mary Russell. In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, Mary Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of a death and some disturbing phenomena of a decidedly supernatural origin.
Through the mists of the moor there have been sightings of a spectral coach made of bones carrying a woman long-ago accused of murdering her husband--and of a hound with a single glowing eye.
Returning to the scene of one of his most celebrated cases, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes and Russell investigate a mystery darker and more unforgiving than the moors themselves, in Laurie R. I will definitely recommend this book to mystery, fiction lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. King Submitted by: Jane Kivik. Read Online Download. John Watson category: mystery, fiction, historical, historical fiction, historical Formats: ePUB Android , audible mp3, audiobook and kindle.
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