Series
I seem to be working on a couple of series, John Connolly and Laurie King.
This one of Ms King's brings me up to date with Mary Russell until a new book comes out. So......
In this caper, we travel to Venice where we don our masks and costumes to attend balls that last all night. We are in pursuit of a missing woman while traversing the canals of Venice. Be sure to watch out for the fascist Blackshirts and Mussolini. We even spend some time with Cole Porter, talk about interesting !!!!
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As usual Ms. King's beautiful writing and research puts the reader right in the thick of things. I always enjoy a wonderfully created journey with Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes.
Goodreads says it better::
A June summer's evening, on the Sussex Downs, in 1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are strolling across their orchard when the telephone rings: an old friend's beloved aunt has failed to return following a supervised outing from Bedlam. After the previous few weeks--with a bloody murder, a terrible loss, and startling revelations about Holmes--Russell is feeling a bit unbalanced herself. The last thing she wants is to deal with the mad, and yet, she can't say no.
The Lady Vivian Beaconsfield has spent most of her adult life in one asylum after another, yet he seemed to be improving--or at least, finding a point of balance in her madness. So why did she disappear? Did she take the family's jewels with her, or did someone else? The Bedlam nurse, perhaps?
The trail leads Russell and Holmes through Bedlam's stony halls to the warm Venice lagoon, where ethereal beauty is jarred by Mussolini's Blackshirts, where the gilded Lido set may be tempting a madwoman, and where Cole Porter sits at a piano, playing with ideas..
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