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Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen Mary Russell mysteries, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, the Stuyvesant & Grey novels Touchstone and The Bones of Paris, and the acclaimed A Darker Place, Folly, Califia’s Daughters (written under the pen name Leigh Richards), and Keeping Watch. She lives in Northern California.
<p>‘Crime fiction’s most unlikely but utterly credible romance… Laurie King is the most interesting writer to emerge on the American crime fiction front in recent years’<br />Val McDermid</p>
<p>‘Brilliantly written’<br />T. J. Binyon, Evening Standard (of The Birth of a New Moon)</p>
Second in Laurie King’s acclaimed Mary Russell mystery series: ‘Beguiling variation on Sherlock Holmes sequels…civilized, ingenious and engrossing’ – Literary Review
In this the riveting sequel to The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Mary Russell has metamorphosed from able apprentice to skilled detective in her own right.
After a tedious visit from relatives, Mary is looking for respite in London when she comes across a friend from Oxford. The young woman introduces Mary to the enigmatic Margery Childe, leader of the New Temple of God, a charismatic sect involved in the post-World War One suffrage movement, with a feminist slant on Christianity. Intrigued and curious, Mary begins to wonder if the New Temple is a front for something more sinister.
When a series of murders claims members of the movement’s wealthy young female volunteers, Mary, with Holmes in the background, starts to investigate, but events spiral out of control as the situation becomes ever more desperate, and Mary’s search plunges her into the worst danger she has yet faced…
Second in Laurie King’s acclaimed Mary Russell mystery series: ‘Beguiling variation on Sherlock Holmes sequels…civilized, ingenious and engrossing’ – Literary Review
• Second in Laurie King’s fascinating series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell now reissued in PB
• Exciting new jacket approach, as for LETTER OF MARY.
• Laurie King’s Sherlock Holmes series has been enthusiastically received by the critics in this country and are already huge bestsellers in the States
• Laurie King is the award-winning author of the Kate Martinelli series and the psychological suspense novel THE BIRTH OF A NEW MOON
Competition: Peter Lovesey
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen Mary Russell mysteries, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, the Stuyvesant & Grey novels Touchstone and The Bones of Paris, and the acclaimed A Darker Place, Folly, Califia’s Daughters (written under the pen name Leigh Richards), and Keeping Watch. She lives in Northern California.