Thursday, August 13, 2020

Books from the Backlog - The God of the Hive


Today I'm linking up with Carole from Carole's Random Life of Books for Books from the Backlog.  I really enjoy the chance to feature a book that's been hiding in the piles of books for far too long!



Goodreads:  The God of the Hive (Mary Russell about Sherlock Holmes #10) by Laurie R. King

Blurb:  It began as a problem in one of Holmes’ beloved beehives, led to a murderous cult, and ended—or so they’d hoped—with a daring escape from a sacrificial altar. Instead, Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have stirred the wrath and the limitless resources of those they’ve thwarted. Now they are separated and on the run, wanted by the police, and pursued across the Continent by a ruthless enemy with powerful connections.
Unstoppable together, Russell and Holmes will have to survive this time apart, maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes. With Holmes’ young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn’t know she had. But has the couple already made a fatal mistake by separating, making themselves easier targets for the shadowy government agents sent to silence them?

From hidden rooms in London shops and rustic forest cabins to rickety planes over Scotland and boats on the frozen North Sea, Russell and Holmes work their way back to each other while uncovering answers to a mystery that will take both of them to solve. A hermit with a mysterious past and a beautiful young female doctor with a secret, a cruelly scarred flyer and an obsessed man of the cloth, Holmes’ brother, Mycroft, and an Intelligence agent who knows too much: Everyone Russell and Holmes meet could either speed their safe reunion or betray them to their enemies—in the most complex, shocking, and deeply personal case of their career.

Why It Needs to Come Off the Shelf: I've now bought this book in multiple formats and it's a favorite series that I desperately need to catch up on.

5 comments:

  1. It's always great to catch up on a series. Enjoy!

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  2. I was inspired by your going to the backlog to start on mine. I've read a P D James and a Susan Howatch now. It was such a delight reading those two.

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  3. I often seem to enjoy books from the backlog more than new titles.

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  4. I haven't read this series, but it does sound good.

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