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It's 1918. Nineteen-year-old Mary and her fiftysomething mentor are forced to flee England to escape a deadly adversary. Sherlock's well-connected brother Mycroft sends them to Palestine to do some international sleuthing. Here, a series of murders threatens the fragile peace.
Laurie King connects us, through details of language, custom, history, and sensual impressions, to this very alien environment. Russell, Holmes, and two marvelously imagined Arab guides named Mahmoud and Ali trek through the desert and visit ancient monasteries clinging like anthills to cliffs. They also find time to take tea with the British military legend Allenby in Haifa and skulk through or under the streets of Jerusalem. King puts us into each scene so quickly and completely that her narrative flow never falters.
Stepping back in time also gives King a chance to show us Holmes through the eyes of a Russell not yet as full of love as a honeymooner, nor as complacent as a comfortable wife. "There it was--sardonic, superior, infuriating," Mary says about Holmes's voice at one point.
Wisdom is knowing when, and how much, to shake things up--even in a successful series. Laurie King is a wise woman indeed. --Dick Adler
"The great marvel of King's series is that she's managed to preserve the integrity of Holmes' character and yet somehow conjure up a woman astute, edgy, and compelling enough to be the partner of his mind as well as his heart."
--The Washington Post Book World
The Moor:
"There's no resisting the appeal of King's thrillingly moody scenes of Dartmoor and her lovely evocations of its legends."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Erudite, fascinating...by all odds the most successful recreation of the famous inhabitant of 221B Baker Street ever attempted."
--Houston Chronicle
A Letter Of Mary:
"A lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company."
--The New York Times Book Review
"An intellectual puzzler, full of bright red herrings and dazzling asides."
--Chicago Tribune
A Monstrous Regiment of Women:
"As audacious as it is entertaining and moving."
--Chicago Tribune
"King has a gift for the rich, decisive detail and the narrative crispness that distinguished Conan Doyle's writing."
--The Washington Post Book World
"Beguiling...tantalizing."
--The Boston Globe
The Beekeeper's Apprentice:
"Rousing...riveting...suspenseful."
--Chicago Sun-Times
"Worthy and welcome, with the power to charm the most grizzled Baker Street Irregular."
--Daily News, New York
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