The New York Times Bestseller.
For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the
Sussex coast after seven months abroad was a delicious anticipation.
There was even a mystery to solve Â- the unexplained disappearance
of an entire colony of bees from one of Holmes's beloved hives. But
the anticipated sweetness of their homecoming is quickly tempered by
a bitter memory from her husband's past.
Mary had met Damian
Adler only once before, when the promising surrealist painter had
been charged with Â- and exonerated from Â- murder. Now the talented
and troubled young man is enlisting their help again, this time in a
desperate search for his missing wife and child.
From
suicides among the Standing Stones to a bizarre religious cult, from
the demi-monde of the Café Royal at the heart of Bohemian London to
the dark secrets of a young woman's past on the streets of Shanghai,
Russell will find herself on the trail of a killer more dangerous
than any she's ever faced Â- a killer Sherlock Holmes himself may be
protecting for reasons near and dear to his heart.
Laurie R. King lives in northern California. Her background
includes such diverse interests as Old Testament theology and
construction work, and she has been writing crime fiction since 1987.
The winner of the Edgar, the Nero, the Macavity and the John Creasey
awards, she is the author of highly praised stand-alone suspense
novels and a contemporary mystery series, as well as the Mary
Russell/Sherlock Holmes series.
