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Mary Russell mysteries #8 Read Kindle PreviewAfter departing Bombay by ship, Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are en route to the bustling modern city of San Francisco. There, Mary will settle some legal affairs surrounding the inheritance of her familyβs old estate. But the closer they get to port, the more Mary finds herself prey to troubling dreams and irrational behaviorβa point not lost on Holmes, much to Russellβs annoyance. In 1906, when Mary was six, San Francisco was devastated by an earthquake and a raging fire that reduced the city to rubble. For years, Mary has denied any memory of the catastrophe that for days turned the fabled streets into hell on earth. But Holmes suspects that some hidden trauma connected with the βunforgettableβ catastrophe may be the real culprit responsible for Maryβs memory lapse. And no sooner do they begin to familiarize themselves with the particulars of the Russell estate than it becomes apparent that whatever unpleasantness Mary has forgotten, it hasnβt forgotten her. Why does her fatherβs will forbid access to the house except in the presence of immediate family? Why did someone break in, then take nothing of any value? And why is Russell herself targeted for assassination? The more questions they ask of Maryβs past, the more people from that past turn out to have died violent, unexplained deaths. Now, with the aid of a hard-boiled young detective and crime writer named Hammett, Russell and Holmes find themselves embroiled in a mystery that leads them through the winding streets of Chinatown to the unspoken secrets of a parentβs marriage and the tragic car βaccidentβ that a fourteen-year-old Mary alone survivedβan accident that may not have been an accident at all. What Russell is about to discover is that even a forgotten past never diesβ¦and it can kill again. Start Reading LOCKED ROOMS Now Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes THE MURDER OF MARY RUSSELL
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β’ April 2016
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