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The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King

By Laurie R. King

Release Date: 2014-05-27

Genre: Historical Mysteries

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The twentieth-anniversary edition of the first novel of the acclaimed Mary Russell series by Edgar Award–Winning author Laurie R. King.

An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee • Named One of the Century's Best 100Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association

In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles onto him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes.

Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern, twentieth-century woman proves a deft protĂŠgĂŠe and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. They are soon called to Wales to help Scotland Yard find the kidnapped daughter of an American senator, a case of international significance with clues that dip deep into Holmes's past.

Full of brilliant deduction, disguises, and danger, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, the first book of the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mysteries, is "remarkably beguiling" (The Boston Globe).

Praise for Laurie R. King and The Beekeeper's Apprentice:

"If there is a new P.D. James . . . I would put my money on Laurie King" —TheBoston Globe

"Rousing . . . Riveting . . .Suspenseful." —Chicago Sun-Times

"King's novel is civilized, ingenious and engrossing. Best of all, it has heart." —Times Literary Review

"As every good mystery reader knows . . . Laurie King is the most interesting writer to emerge on the American crime fiction front in recent years. Intelligent, humane, gifted with both talent and insight, she is an unalloyed pleasure to read." —Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News

"Wonderfully original and entertaining . . . absorbing from beginning to end." —Booklist

The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King

By Laurie R. King

Release Date: 2014-05-27

Genre: Historical Mysteries

(0 ratings)
Read Download
The twentieth-anniversary edition of the first novel of the acclaimed Mary Russell series by Edgar Award–Winning author Laurie R. King.

An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee • Named One of the Century's Best 100Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association

In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles onto him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes.

Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern, twentieth-century woman proves a deft protĂŠgĂŠe and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. They are soon called to Wales to help Scotland Yard find the kidnapped daughter of an American senator, a case of international significance with clues that dip deep into Holmes's past.

Full of brilliant deduction, disguises, and danger, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, the first book of the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mysteries, is "remarkably beguiling" (The Boston Globe).

Praise for Laurie R. King and The Beekeeper's Apprentice:

"If there is a new P.D. James . . . I would put my money on Laurie King" —TheBoston Globe

"Rousing . . . Riveting . . .Suspenseful." —Chicago Sun-Times

"King's novel is civilized, ingenious and engrossing. Best of all, it has heart." —Times Literary Review

"As every good mystery reader knows . . . Laurie King is the most interesting writer to emerge on the American crime fiction front in recent years. Intelligent, humane, gifted with both talent and insight, she is an unalloyed pleasure to read." —Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News

"Wonderfully original and entertaining . . . absorbing from beginning to end." —Booklist

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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