The God of the Hive (Hardcover)

from wdwilson3

At the outset, reading "The God of the Hive" was, for me, a lot like walking in an hour late to a new Bruce Willis action-adventure movie. I hadn't read one of Laurie R. King's Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries since the first installment, "The Beekeeper's Apprentice." Obviously, a lot had h...

from GarySeverance

As a teenager, I read all of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson. The eccentric sleuth and the doctor were interesting characters, and so was the locale, exotic London and other scenes of Great Britain and the world. Now, after all these years, I learn that Sherlock marrie...

from CarolO

Mary Russell takes the center stage in this most recent installment. The story skips around a bit more then usual, alternating between the different characters, but always focuses back on Mary. Something devious is going on and Mary is hobbled in her investigation by her responsibility for a 3 ye...

from LisaMaria_C

This is the tenth in the Mary Russell series, where King gives Sherlock Holmes an unlikely (on the surface) romantic and professional partner: Mary Russell, a feminist, American, Jewish, an Oxford theological scholar--and less than half his age. It works though, usually the Russell books are a co...

from karieh

I so didn't want to finish reading this book. I can't explain exactly what it is about Laurie King's books...but even though I dropped out of reading the "mystery/thriller" genre a LONG time ago - I love her books. They have all the wonderful escapism and none of the cheesiness that ruins most "w...