Beekeeping for Beginners by Laurie R. King

“THE GREAT MARVEL OF KING’S SERIES IS THAT SHE’S MANAGED TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF HOLMES’S CHARACTER AND YET SOMEHOW CONJURE UP A WOMAN ASTUTE, EDGY AND COMPELLING ENOUGH TO BE THE PARTNER OF HIS MIND AS WELL AS HIS HEART.”
    —The Washington Post Book World
MORE PRAISE FOR LAURIE R. KING’S BESTSELLING MYSTERIES
THE GOD OF THE HIVE
“ The God of the Hive is mesmerizing—another wonderful novel etched by the hand of a master storyteller. No reader who opens this one will be disappointed.”
    —Michael Connelly
“The Mary Russell series is the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today, and this is the best installment yet.”
    —Lee Child
“Gloriously complex … utterly absorbing reading … puzzling and uplifting.”
    —Booklist (starred review)
“Her storytelling is robust, confident, and lightly sprinkled with grace notes reflecting the author’s background in theology.”
    — The Seattle Times
“The excitement and suspense build.… Throw in the Baker Street Irregulars, several well-concealed London bolt-holes, some Holmesian cunning, and a rousing finale, and you have all the ingredients of another winning entry in the Laurie King canon.”
    —Mystery Scene
“Laurie R. King’s God of the Hive is not for those looking for just one more Sherlock Holmes story. This is a rich, complex portrait of the Holmes–Russell extended family, nuanced well beyond the simplicities of Sir Arthur’s tales. As usual, King delivers far more than a ‘mystery’: Indelible characters and telling observations of England after the Great War make this real Literature but without pretension.”
    —Leslie S. Klinger
“All it takes is the very first page of the newest installment in Laurie R. King’s brilliant series for and you’re gone … disappearing into an artfully crafted, creative and craft world.”
    —M. J. Rose
“ The God of the Hive will astonish and delight even the most seasoned of Holmes’ devotees.”
    —Katherine Neville
“From thrilling plot to lyrical prose, Laurie R. King’s The God of the Hive is a spectacular finale to the unforgettable The Language of Bees . With nearly a continent separating them in this tale, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes take on a foe so powerful he has nearly eliminated not only their family but them. Without a doubt, King is the master of Sherlockian authors.”
    —Gayle Lynds
THE LANGUAGE OF BEES
“Absorbing … in Mary Russell’s wry, brilliant, and occasionally utterly deluded voice … Readers will want the rest right now … this is one of the best of a uniformly superlative series.”
    —Booklist (starred review)
“There’s a thriving cottage industry in new Sherlock Holmes stories, but imaginative and subtle Laurie R. King is way ahead of the pack.… The result, as always, is absorbing.”
    —The Seattle Times
MORE PRAISE FOR LAURIE R. KING’S
AWARD-WINNING MYSTERY SERIES
FEATURING MARY RUSSELL AND
SHERLOCK HOLMES
“A one-woman case for the defense of unauthorized literary sequels … intelligent, witty, complex and atmospheric … By making a woman possible who matches Holmes in brainpower, as well as in depressive ten dencies of mind and spare elegance of manner, King has made marriage possible for the most famous and, surely, one of the most aloof detectives of all time.… A spellbinding mystery … superb.”
    —The Washington Post , for Justice Hall
“A wonderful blend of sheer wit and canny ratiocination, this is mystery at its most ingenious.”
    —The Guardian , for The Art of Detection
“Mesmerizing … King does a wonderful job of probing the human psyche.… All of her novels are superb.”
    —Daily American , for Locked Rooms
“Suspenseful … Laurie R. King takes on England and literature’s most famous detective with masterful aplomb. I loved it.”
    —Elizabeth George, for A Letter of Mary
“Inspired … King puts us into each scene so quickly and completely that her narrative