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Justice Hall
Hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving the murky riddle of The Moor, a bloodied but oddly familiar stranger pounds desperately on their front door, pleading for help. When he recovers, he lays before them the story of the enigmatic Marsh Hughenfort, younger brother of the Duke of Beauville, returned to England upon his brother’s death.
Not until they set eyes on justice Hall can Holmes and Russell appreciate Marsh’s dilemma. Set in a garden modelled on Eden, it is a home of unearthly perfection. But the heirs to this splendour are haunted by tragedy and scandalous rumours surrounding the death of Gabriel Hughenfort, the late Duke’s only son, in the Great War of 1918.
While Holmes heads to London to uncover the truth of Gabriel’s war record, Russell joins an ill-fated shooting party. A missing diary, a purloined bundle of letters, and a trail of ominous clues comprise a mystery that will call for Holmes’s cleverest disguises and Russell’s most daring journeys into the unknown -from an English hamlet to the city of Paris to the wild prairie of the New World. The trap is set, the game is afoot, but can they catch an elusive villain in the act of murder before they become his next victims?
Praise for Laurie r King
`Beguiling variation on Sherlock Holmes sequels… civilized, ingenious and engrossing’ Literary Review
‘Simultaneously inventive, charming, witty and suspenseful’ Elizabeth George
`One of the most literate and gifted writers the mystery world has seen for some time’ Val McDermid
`Mary Russell, combines the quirky intellect of her mentor with a modern modus operandi - a heroine to contend with’ Time Out
`The great marvel of king’s series is that she’s managed to preserve the integrity of Holmes’s character and yet somehow conjure up a woman astute, edgy, and compelling enough to be the partner of his mind as well as his heart’ Washington Post
`If there is a new P D James… I would put my money on Laurie King’ Boston Globe
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O Jerusalem
At last the `lost’ adventure so tantalizingly alluded to in The Beekeeper’s Apprentice is unveiled in this, the fifth in the bestselling Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mystery series.
Forced to flee England at the close of 1918, Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen year-old apprentice Mary Russell enter Palestine under the auspices of Holmes’ enigmatic brother, Mycroft. Their mission: to solve a series of murders, seemingly unrelated to the growing tensions among Jew, Moslem, and Christian that threaten the fragile peace.
Their pursuit of the killer leads them from desert gully to cliff-hung monasteries, through labyrinthine bazaars, verminous hovels - and into mortal danger. Finally, in the jewel-like city of Jerusalem, they will meet their adversary, a ruthless criminal whose lust for power could reduce the city’s most ancient and sacred place to rubble and ignite this tinderbox of a land ...
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The Moor
The fourth novel in Laurie King’s acclaimed Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell series finds the sleuthing duo revisiting the eerie scene of one of Holmes’ most celebrated cases, involving `the footsteps of a giant hound’.
Holmes is summoned back to Dartmoor by an old friend, who is disturbed by rumours of sightings of a ghostly carriage and a huge `devil dog’ on the moonlit moor. And when the body of tin miner Josiah Gorton is found surrounded by oversize paw prints, it looks as if the Hound of the Baskervilles has returned to haunt the moor once more.
Attempting to unravel the mystery, Holmes and Russell find themselves caught up in local legend, myth and folklore as a devilish pattern begins to develop against the backdrop of the dark, foreboding Devonshire moor. True to their expectations, events have a real-world explanation, but it is one that combines more wild emotion, surprise, and frightening suspense than any ghost story could.
'There's no resisting the appeal of King's thrillingly moody scenes of Dartmoor and her lovely evocations of its legends.' New York Times Book Review
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Folly
A lonely island off the northwest coast of America. A ruined folly. A woman's fight to reconstruct her life after the devastating loss of her husband and daughter. A threat from the past…
Rae Newborn, shattered after a catastrophic nervous breakdown and an attempted rape, is left on a deserted island off the coast of Washington State. Her aim is single-handedly to rebuild a family house destroyed by fire back in the 1920s. All she wants is to be left in peace, but memories and real life intrude. Her nights are haunted by ghosts from her past and fears that the monsters lying there will return; her days interrupted by unwelcome visits from the local police and a mysterious intruder.
Her tranquillity is truly disturbed when she makes a discovery in the foundations of the house, one that throws a dark shadow over her whole family history. What really happened on the island 80 years ago? And what was the truth behind her great uncle's disappearance after his return, shell-shocked, from the trenches of the First World War? Violence comes down through the years to explode once again on the isolated island, this time threatening to destroy not just Rae but future generations as well.
Praise for Laurie R. King
'One of the most literate and gifted writers the mystery world has seen for some time' Val McDermid
'If there is a new P. D. James I would put my money on Laurie King.' Boston Globe
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Night Work
After her last harrowing case Kate Martinelli is more than ready for routine police work and her newfound serenity with longtime lover, Lee. But then she’s called to the scene of a carefully executed murder, and everything changes. Half hidden in a clump of bushes lies a well-muscled corpse, handcuffed and strangled, with a candy bar in his pocket. The only person who might have wanted airport baggage handler James Larsen dead seems to be the wife he repeatedly abused, but her alibi is airtight.
Kate and her partner, Al Hawkin, are stumped. Then a second body turns up, also zapped, cuffed, strangled ...and carrying a chocolate bar. It is that of Matthew Banderas, a software salesman convicted of one rape, suspected of many more.
Yet, despite the newspaper headlines, Kate and AI can establish no personal link between the victims and cannot rule out coincidence. But in the midst of an unpromising investigation, Kate has another cause thrust upon her by her friend, feminist minister Roz Hall, that of a young Indian bride Roz is convinced was murdered. As Kate wrestles with the clash between her personal and professional lives, a third killing draws her and AI into a network of pitiless destruction that reaches far beyond San Francisco, a hit list with shudderingly primal roots.
'Totally gripping' Guardian
About The Author
Laurie King is third-generation native of the San Francisco Bay Area, but since her marriage to an Anglo-Indian professor she has lived briefly in twenty countries on five continents. She and her husband have two children. She has received numerous nominations and awards for her crime fiction, including the Crime Writers’ Association’s John Creasey Award and the equivalent Edgar Award in the States for Best First Crime Novel of the Year. Justice Hall is the sixth in the series featuring Mary Russell, the one-time apprentice of Sherlock Holmes, now his partner and wife.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Keeping Watch
(Bantam,
2003)
US Edition
Justice Hall
(HarperCollins,
2002)
(Mary Russell)
O Jerusalem
(HarperCollins,
2002)
(Mary Russell)
The Moor
(HarperCollins,
2001)
(Mary Russell)
Folly
(HarperCollins,
2001)
Macavity award winner
HarperCollins Pbk May 01
Night Work
(HarperCollins,
2000)
HarperCollins Pbk Feb 01
(Kate Martinelli)
A Darker Place
(Bantam,
1999)
US Edition
The Birth of a New Moon
(HarperCollins,
1999)
A Letter of Mary
(HarperCollins,
1999)
HarperCollins Pbk Aug 01
(Mary Russell)
With Child
(HarperCollins,
1997)
Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel; Orange Award
nominee [U.K.]
HarperCollins Pbk 1998
(Kate Martinelli)
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
(HarperCollins,
1997)
(Mary Russell)
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
(HarperCollins,
1996)
(Mary Russell)
To Play The Fool
(HarperCollins,
1995)
HarperCollins Pbk 1997
(Kate Martinelli)
A Grave Talent
(HarperCollins,
1995)
(Kate Martinelli)
Justice Hall
02 Dec 02
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