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1. The Beekeeper's Apprentice, or, On The Segregation of the Queen
In 1915, long since retired from his crime-fighting days, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive
study of honeybees on the Sussex Downs. Never did the Victorian detective think to meet an intellect
matching his own - until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a young twentieth-century lady
whose mental acuity is equaled only by her penchant for deduction, disguises, and danger. Under
Holmes' reluctant tutelage, Russell embarks on a case involving a landowner's mysterious fever and
the kidnapping of an American senator's daughter in the wilds of Wales. Then a near-fatal bomb on
her doorstep - and another on Holmes' sends the two sleuths on the trail of a murderer who scatters
bizarre clues and seems utterly without motive. The villain's objective, however, is quite
unequivocal: to end Russell and Holmes' partnership - and then their lives.
2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women
The dawn of 1921 finds Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes's brilliant young apprentice, about to come
into a considerable inheritance. Nevertheless, she still enjoys her nighttime prowls in disguise
through London's grimy streets, where one night she encounters an old friend, now a charity worker
among the poor. Veronica Beaconsfield introduces Russell to the New Temple of God, a curious amalgam
of church and feminist movement, led by the enigmatic, electrifying Margery Childe. Part suffragette,
part mystic, she lives quite well for a woman of God from supposedly humble origins. Despite herself,
Russell is drawn ever deeper into Childe's circle. When Veronica has a near-fatal accident--and turns
out to be the fourth bluestocking in the group to meet with misadventure after changing her will--
Russell and Holmes launch a quiet investigation. But the Temple may bring the newly rich Russell far
closer to heaven than she would like...
3. A Letter of Mary
It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the
summer together on their Sussex estate when they are visited by an old friend, Miss Dorothy Ruskin,
an archeologist just returned from Palestine. She leaves in their protection an ancient manuscript
which seems to hint at the possibility that Mary Magdalene was an apostle--an artifact certain to
stir up a storm of biblical proportions in the Christian establishment. When Ruskin is suddenly
killed in a tragic accident, Russell and Holmes find themselves on the trail of a fiendishly clever
murderer. Brimming with political intrigue, theological arcana, and brilliant Holmesian deductions.
4. The Moor
In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, Mary
Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of a death and some disturbing
phenomena of a decidedly supernatural origin. Through the mists of the moor there have been sightings
of a spectral coach made of bones carrying a woman long-ago accused of murdering her husband--and of
a hound with a single glowing eye. Returning to the scene of one of his most celebrated cases, The
Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes and Russell investigate a mystery darker and more unforgiving than
the moors themselves.
5. O Jerusalem
At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England, Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen-year-old
apprentice Mary Russell enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes.s enigmatic
brother, Mycroft. Their arrival coincides with a rash of unsolved murders that has baffled the
authorities and seems unrelated to the growing tensions in the area among Jew, Moslem, and Christian.
Still, no one is too pleased at Holmes.s insistence on reconstructing the most recent homicide in the
desert gully where it occurred.
What they unexpectedly uncover will lead Russell and Holmes through an exotic gauntlet of labyrinthine
bazaars, verminous hovels, cliff-hung monasteries.and into mortal danger. In the jewel-like city of
Jerusalem, they will at last meet their adversary, whose lust for power could reduce the city.s most
ancient and sacred place to rubble and ignite a tinderbox of hostilities just waiting for a spark..
NOTE: This story actually backtracks and takes place during Book 1.
6. Justice Hall
Only hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving one riddle on the moor, another knocks on
their front door.literally. It.s a mystery that begins during the Great War, when Gabriel Hughenfort
died amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever since. But it.s not until Holmes and
Russell arrive at Justice Hall, a home of unearthly perfection set in a garden modeled on Paradise,
that they fully understand the irony echoed in the family motto, Justicia fortitudo mea est:
.Righteousness is my strength..
A trail of ominous clues leads Holmes and Russell from an English hamlet to fashionable Paris to the
wild prairie of the New World. But as the moment of reckoning approaches, will justice be done.or have
they been lured straight into an elusive killer.s perfectly baited trap?
7. The Game
It.s only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves
embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year.s visit from Holmes.s brother Mycroft, who comes
bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball O.Hara.the same
Kimball known to the world through Kipling.s famed Kim. Inexplicably, O.Hara withdrew from the .Great
Game. of espionage and now he has just as inexplicably disappeared.
When Russell discovers Holmes.s own secret friendship with the spy, she knows the die is cast: she
will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But Russell soon learns that
in this faraway and exotic land, it.s often impossible to tell friend from foe.and that some games
aren.t played for fun but for the highest stakes of all.life and death.
8. Locked Rooms
En route to San Francisco to settle her family.s estate, Mary Russell, in the company of husband
Sherlock Holmes, falls prey to troubling dreams.and even more troubling behavior. In 1906, when Mary
was six, the city was devastated by a catastrophic earthquake. For years Mary has insisted she lived
elsewhere at the time. But Holmes knows better.
Soon it is clear that whatever unpleasantness Mary wanted to forget hasn.t forgotten her. A series
of mysterious deaths leads Russell and Holmes from the winding streets of Chinatown to the unspoken
secrets of a parent.s marriage and the tragic .accident. that Mary alone survived. What Russell
discovers is that even a forgotten past never dies . . . and it can kill again.
9. The Language of Bees
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 solve.the unexplained disappearance of an
entire colony of bees from one of Holmes.s beloved hives. But the anticipated sweetness of their
homecoming is quickly tempered by a galling memory from the past. Mary had met Damian Adler only
once before, when the surrealist painter had been charged with.and exonerated from.murder. Now the
troubled young man is enlisting the Holmeses. help again, this time in a desperate search for his
missing wife and child.
Mary has often observed that there are many kinds of madness, and before this case yields its
shattering solution she.ll come into dangerous contact with a fair number of them. From suicides
at Stonehenge to the dark secrets of a young woman.s past on the streets of Shanghai, Mary will find
herself on the trail of a killer more dangerous than any she.s ever faced.a killer Sherlock Holmes
himself may be protecting for reasons near and dear to his heart.
10. The God of the Hive
In Laurie R. King.s latest Mary Russell.Sherlock Holmes mystery, the acclaimed New York Times
bestselling author delivers a thriller of ingenious surprises and unrelenting suspense.as the famous
husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
It began as a problem in one of Holmes. beloved beehives, led to a murderous cult, and ended.or so
they.d hoped.with a daring escape from a sacrificial altar. Instead, Mary Russell and her husband,
Sherlock Holmes, have stirred the wrath and the limitless resources of those they.ve thwarted. Now
they are separated and on the run, wanted by the police, and pursued across the Continent by
a ruthless enemy with powerful connections.
Unstoppable together, Russell and Holmes will have to survive this time apart, maintaining tenuous
contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes. With Holmes. young granddaughter in her
safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn.t know she had. But has the couple
already made a fatal mistake by separating, making themselves easier targets for the shadowy
government agents sent to silence them?
From hidden rooms in London shops and rustic forest cabins to rickety planes over Scotland and
boats on the frozen North Sea, Russell and Holmes work their way back to each other while uncovering
answers to a mystery that will take both of them to solve. A hermit with a mysterious past and
a beautiful young female doctor with a secret, a cruelly scarred flyer and an obsessed man of the
cloth, Holmes. brother, Mycroft, and an Intelligence agent who knows too much: Everyone Russell and
Holmes meet could either speed their safe reunion or betray them to their enemies.in the most complex,
shocking, and deeply personal case of their career.
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