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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