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Holmes and Watson and… Mary Russell?

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

October 8, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

This is the first installment in Laurie R. King’s series retelling of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. The series is set after Holmes’ supposed retirement from detective work, and begins when Mary Russell, a teenage orphan who lives on the farm next to Holmes’ retirement pad, literally runs into Holmes on the moor. Over time, Mary becomes Holmes’ defacto apprentice, and this first novel is really concerned with laying the groundwork for the series (Wikipedia tells me there are 17 books after this first installment, which […]

“The Good Lord went to ridiculous lengths to make sure that one of the finest minds in existence was housed in a body least likely to be suspected of it.”

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

November 17, 2016 by Ellepkay 4 Comments

This book. Man, this book is exactly what I needed this past insanely crappy week. It’s a 4.5 star book, but I needed it so much I can’t give it anything less than a 5 right now. This is the first in a trilogy about Charlotte Holmes, a self-styled private investigator in Victorian London. It is fabulous. I adore the original Sherlock Holmes stories. They helped get me through a summer of studying for the Bar Exam. I was so obsessed that during my lunch […]

Malin on 530 pages and I wasn’t ready for it to be overI'm feeling happier about waiting to finish the series until the third book is out.
narfna on Family secrets and a ghost storyThat cover you have is so pretty!
Emmalita on 530 pages and I wasn’t ready for it to be overI love this series. I can’t wait for the next one, because the second one ends on a knife point.
ASKReviews on Anti-Fat Bias Is RealOh yay! Yeah, it's a good one, and if you read her first book, there's still new information in this one.
GentleRain on A Terribly Sad Book That Probably Shouldn’t Have Been Written at This Point in TimeThanks! Yes, it was a very thought provoking read but I really would have waited to write it, or written a different book if they...

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Holmes and Watson and… Mary Russell?

“The Good Lord went to ridiculous lengths to make sure that one of the finest minds in existence was housed in a body least likely to be suspected of it.”

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