A Letter of Mary by Laurie R King

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A Letter of Mary by Laurie R King

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Third in Laurie King’s popular Mary Russell crime series: ‘Beguiling variation on Sherlock Holmes sequels…civilised, ingenious and engrossing’ – Literary Review

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A Letter of Mary by Laurie R King

Third in Laurie King’s popular Mary Russell crime series: ‘Beguiling variation on Sherlock Holmes sequels…civilised, ingenious and engrossing’ – Literary Review August, 1923. The quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex is shaken when Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archaeologist from the Holy Land, appears with an exquisite inlaid box containing a scrap of ancient writing. Miss Ruskin soon dies in a traffic accident that Holmes and Mary prove was murder. But what was the motivation? Was it the little inlaid box holding the manuscript? Or the woman’s involvement in the volatile politics of the Holy Land? Or could it have been the manuscript itself – a letter seemingly written by Mary Magdalene that contains a biblical bombshell. Beautifully written and steeped in authentic period detail, A Letter of Mary is a fascinating and intelligent read.

‘Crime fiction’s most unlikely but utterly credible romance… Laurie King is the most interesting writer to emerge on the American crime fiction front in recent years’
Val McDermid (of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice)

‘An inventive variation on the Sherlock Holmes myth’
Time Out

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.

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ISBN 13 9780006510857
ISBN 10 000651085X
Title A Letter of Mary
Author Laurie R King
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 2001-02-05
Number of pages 352
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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