The second in the delightful Mary Russell novels, “A Monstrous Regiment of Women,” sees our intrepid, eminently likeable young blue-stocking of a heroine turn 2, and take over her considerable inheritance from her hated aunt. Mary’s life is as busy as ever. She is finishing her Oxford thesis, and preparing …
Of all the delightful novels in the Mary Russell series, Laurie R. King’s “A Letter of Mary” is perhaps the most tender and romantic, bordering at times on sensuous. In this book, we see at work the love that unites the young, clever, courageous Mary Russell and her much older, …
Reviewing such an exciting, action-packed novel as “O Jerusalem”, the second (chronologically speaking) in the Mary Russell series, the period detail is such that one wants to use words like derring-do and possibly even swashbuckling, to describe the utterly delightful young heroine. In this story, Mary Russell is only 19, …
“The Moor” is another novel in the clever, entertaining and very successful Mary Russell series. Mary Russell, as in Mrs. Sherlock Holmes. The young wife of the now elderly detective is the one with energy and good humour and a delicious sense of irony, and we see the world and …
The Mary Russell series of whodunnits – also featuring her husband, one older gentleman named Sherlock Holmes – is a joy to read. Fun, ever so slightly irreverent, and good mysteries in their own right, regardless of the high profile husband and his famous friends. This novel takes us to …
Having only recently discovered the wonderful Sherlock Holmes meets Kim whodunnit, “The Game” by Laurie R. King, this reviewer decided to go back to the first book in this eminently readable series, which is actually a series about the gutsy young Mary Russell. aka Mrs. Sherlock Homes. In “The Beekeeper’s …
What a pleasure to discover a whole new genre of fiction, even though the rest of the world has seemingly known about it for years. Meet Mary Russell, the fictional wife of the equally fictional Sherlock Holmes. Miss Russell has to be one of the most charming derring-do heroines a …
