num_pages: 368
description: In Laurie R. Kings latest Mary RussellSherlock Holmes mystery the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller of ingenious surprises and unrelenting suspenseas the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice. It began as a problem in one of Holmes beloved beehives led to a murderous cult and endedor so theyd hopedwith 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 theyve 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 didnt 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 enemiesin the most complex shocking and deeply personal case of their career.(front flap)
language: English
title: The God of the Hive
publisher: Bantam Books