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The Language of Bees - Laurie R. King

By Laurie R. King

Release Date: 2009-04-28

Genre: Women Sleuths

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€˘ â€œ[Laurie R.] King enriches the Sherlockian legacy.”—The Boston Globe 

For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast after seven months abroad was especially sweet. There was even a mystery to solve—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 galling memory from the past. Mary had met Damian Adler only once before, when the surrealist painter had been charged with—and exonerated from—murder. Now the troubled young man is enlisting the Holmeses’ help again, this time in a desperate search for his missing wife and child.

Mary has often observed that there are many kinds of madness, and before this case yields its shattering solution she’ll come into dangerous contact with a fair number of them. From suicides at Stonehenge to the dark secrets of a young woman’s past on the streets of Shanghai, Mary will find herself on the trail of a killer more dangerous than any she’s ever faced—a killer Sherlock Holmes himself may be protecting for reasons near and dear to his heart.

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Laurie R. King's The God of the Hive and Pirate King.

The Language of Bees - Laurie R. King

By Laurie R. King

Release Date: 2009-04-28

Genre: Women Sleuths

4.5 (84 ratings)
Read Download
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€˘ â€œ[Laurie R.] King enriches the Sherlockian legacy.”—The Boston Globe 

For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast after seven months abroad was especially sweet. There was even a mystery to solve—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 galling memory from the past. Mary had met Damian Adler only once before, when the surrealist painter had been charged with—and exonerated from—murder. Now the troubled young man is enlisting the Holmeses’ help again, this time in a desperate search for his missing wife and child.

Mary has often observed that there are many kinds of madness, and before this case yields its shattering solution she’ll come into dangerous contact with a fair number of them. From suicides at Stonehenge to the dark secrets of a young woman’s past on the streets of Shanghai, Mary will find herself on the trail of a killer more dangerous than any she’s ever faced—a killer Sherlock Holmes himself may be protecting for reasons near and dear to his heart.

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Laurie R. King's The God of the Hive and Pirate King.

More by Laurie R. King

Beekeeping for Beginners (Short Story)

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

Dreaming Spies

The Murder of Mary Russell

Garment of Shadows

The Game

Pirate King (with bonus short story Beekeeping for Beginners)

The Bones of Paris

O Jerusalem

The God of the Hive

The Marriage of Mary Russell

Locked Rooms

Justice Hall

Riviera Gold

The Language of Bees

The Art of Detection

Island of the Mad

The Lantern's Dance

Castle Shade

Mary Russell's War

A Study in Sherlock

Knave of Diamonds

Touchstone

Back to the Garden

Night Work

Folly

Califia's Daughters

The Mary Russell Series Books 2-4

A Darker Place

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

The Mary Russell Companion

Lockdown

A Monstrous Regiment of Women

Laurie R. King's Sherlock Holmes

Keeping Watch

The Moor

A Letter of Mary

Hellbender

The Kate Martinelli Series, Books 1-3

In League with Sherlock Holmes

Mila's Tale

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Those Who Are Gone

In the Company of Sherlock Holmes

Echoes of Sherlock Holmes

A Grave Talent

For the Sake of the Game

With Child

To Play the Fool

Crime and Thriller Writing

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