- Women private investigators, Fiction, Missing persons, Investigation
In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husband's storied past--a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to sting...this time fatally.For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast after seven months abroad was especially sweet.
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Classical in form, grave, epic and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Laurie R. King
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 468
- Publisher
- AudioGo, Random House Publishing Group, Allison & Busby, Limited
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780749008079
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Laurie R. King is the *New York Times* bestselling author of 30 novels and other works, including the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes stories (***The Beekeeper’s Apprentice*** was chosen as one of the “20th Century’s Best Crime Novels” by the IMBA.) She has won the Agatha, Anthony, Creasey, Edgar, Lambda, Macavity, Wolfe, and Romantic Times Career Achievement awards, has an honorary doctorate in theology, and is a Baker Street Irregular. In 2022, she was named Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America. She co-edited (with Lee Child) the new handbook from Mystery Writers of America, ***How to Write a Mystery***, and has a new contemporary series with SFPD Inspector Raquel Laing, beginning with
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