August 09, 2019 / in Historical Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Thriller / with No comments /
Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious teenage girl with a penchant for detection. Miss Mary Russell becomes Holmes' pupil and quickly hones her talent for deduction, disguises and danger. But when an elusive villain enters the picture, their partnership is put to a real test.August 09, 2019 / in Historical Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Thriller / with No comments /
A Monstrous Regiment of Women continues Mary Russell's adventures as a worthy student of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and as an ever more skilled sleuth in her own right.August 09, 2019 / in Historical Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Thriller / with No comments /
The year is 1923 and Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell receive a visit from Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archaeologist. She shows them a scrap of ancient writing that is supposedly Mary Magdalene's. Soon afterwards she is murdered - but why?August 09, 2019 / in Historical Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Thriller / with No comments /
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.August 09, 2019 / in Historical Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Thriller / with No comments /
At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England's green and pleasant land, Russell and Holmes enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes' enigmatic brother, Mycroft.August 09, 2019 / in Historical Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Thriller / with No comments /
Hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving the murky riddle of The Moor, a bloodied but oddly familiar stranger pounds desperately on their front door, pleading for their help. August 09, 2019 / in Historical Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Thriller / with No comments /
It’s only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year’s visit from Holmes’s brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball O’Hara—the same Kimball known to the world through Kipling’s famed Kim. Inexplicably, O’Hara withdrew from the “Great Game” of espionage and now he has just as inexplicably disappeared.August 09, 2019 / in Historical Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Thriller / with No comments /
Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. King's highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling mystery series. And this time the first couple of detection pair up to unlock the buried memory of a shocking crime with the power to kill again-lost somewhere in Russell's own past.August 09, 2019 / in Historical Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Thriller / with No comments /
In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husband's storied past--a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to sting...this time fatally.August 09, 2019 / in Historical Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Thriller / with No comments /
Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have stirred the wrath of a murderous secret organization bent on infiltrating the government. Now they are separated and on the run, wanted by the police, and pursued across the Continent by a ruthless enemy with limitless resources and powerful connections.August 09, 2019 / in Historical Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Thriller / with No comments /
In England's budding silent-film industry, megalomaniac Randolph Fflytte is king. At the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell is dispatched to investigate rumors of criminal activities. At Lisbon rehearsals for "Pirate King", based on Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance", thirteen blond-haired, blue-eyed actresses meet the real buccaneers Fflytte has recruited to provide authenticity. But when the crew embarks for Morocco and the actual filming, troubles escalate.August 09, 2019 / in Historical Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Thriller / with No comments /
For years now, readers of the Russell Memoirs have wondered about the tantalizing mentions of Japan. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes had spent three weeks there, between India (The Game) and San Francisco (Locked Rooms). The time has finally come to tell that story.August 09, 2019 / in Historical Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Thriller / with No comments /
Mary Russell is used to dark secrets—her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond.August 09, 2019 / in Historical Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Thriller / with No comments /
A June summer's evening, on the Sussex Downs, in 1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are strolling across their orchard when the telephone rings: an old friend's beloved aunt has failed to return following a supervised outing from Bedlam.