Mary Russell #9
Bantam
May 2009
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Featuring: Mary Russell; Sherlock Holmes
432 pages ISBN: 0553804545 EAN: 9780553804546 Kindle: B001NLKTJM Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husbandโs storied pastโa painful and personal defeat that still has the power to stingโฆthis time fatally.
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 solveโthe unexplained disappearance of an entire colony of bees from one of Holmesโs beloved hives. But the anticipated sweetness of their homecoming is quickly tempered by a galling memory from her husbandโs past.
Mary had met Damian Adler only once before, when the promising surrealist painter had been charged withโand exonerated fromโmurder. Now the talented and troubled young man was enlisting their help again, this time in a desperate search for his missing wife and child. When it comes to communal behavior, Russell has often observed that there are many kinds of madness. And before this case yields its shattering solution, sheโll come into dangerous contact with a fair number of them.
From suicides at Stonehenge to a bizarre religious cult, from the demimonde of the Cafรฉ Royal at the heart of Bohemian London to the dark secrets of a young womanโs past on the streets of Shanghai, Russell will find herself on the trail of a killer more dangerous than any sheโs ever facedโa killer Sherlock Holmes himself may be protecting for reasons near and dear to his heart.
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