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, …
“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 …
Ever wondered what happened to Sherlock Homes, after he fell over the Reichenbach Falls and was presumed drowned ? The only clue generations of Sherlock Homes fans had were two meagre sentences beginning “I travelled for 2 years in Tibet…” Jamyang Norbu’s clever, well-written novel fills in these missing 2 …
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 …
