Description
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.
About the Author
Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of
ten Mary Russell mysteries, five contemporary novels featuring Kate
Martinelli, and the acclaimed novels A Darker Place, Folly, Keeping
Watch, and Touchstone. She lives in Northern California where
she is currently at work on her next novel.
Praise for The Language of Bees: A novel of suspense featuring
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes…
"A one-woman case for the defense of unauthorized literary
sequels...intelligent, witty, complex and atmospheric...By making a
woman possible who matches Holmes in brainpower, as well as in
depressive tendencies of mind and spare elegance of manner, King has
made marriage possible for the most famous and, surely, one of the most
aloof detectives of all time....A spellbinding mystery...superb." —The
Washington Post Book World on Justice Hall
"A
wonderful blend of sheer wit and canny ratiocination, this is mystery at
its most ingenious."—The Guardian on The Art of Detection
"Mesmerizing...King
does a wonderful job of probing the human psyche...All of her novels
are superb."—Daily American on Locked Rooms
