PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Laurie King is a third-generation native of San Francisco, but since her marriage to an Anglo-Indian professor she has lived briefly on five continents. She and her husband have two children. They live mostly in California
Mary Russell is the brilliant young assistant to an ageing Sherlock Holmes, and rapidly becoming a detective in her own right in this, the sequel to King's compelling book The Beekeeper's Apprentice. It is 1920 and, on a visit to London dressed in men's clothes, she runs into an old Oxford pal who introduces her to Margery Childe, a charismatic speaker who combines the Suffragette language with a feminist slant on Christianity in her movement, 'The New Temple of God'. But when rich female volunteers turn up dead, Mary and Holmes begin to suspect foul play. King deftly draws a convincing 1920s London dotted with traumatised young men back from the trenches and women struggling to define a new role. Gripping reading. (Kirkus UK)
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