Laurie R. King is the Edgar Award winning author of the Kate Martinelli novels and the acclaimed Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries, as well as a few stand-alone novels. "The Beekeeper's Apprentice," the first in her Mary Russell series, was nominated for an Agatha Award and was named one of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. "A Monstrous Regiment of Women" won the Nero Wolfe Award. She has degrees in theology, and besides writing she has also managed a coffee store and raised children, vegetables and the occasional building. She lives in northern California."
Wonderfully original and entertaining . . . absorbing from
beginning to end. "Booklist" King has stepped onto the sacred
literary preserve of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, poached Holmes, and
brilliantly brought him to life again. "The Washington Post Book
World" Remarkably beguiling. "The Boston Globe" A fascinating and
often moving account of a friendship so unusual and so compelling
that one almost accepts it as being historically real. "The Denver
Post" Enchanting . . . "The Beekeeper's Apprentice "is real Laurie
R. King, not "faux" Conan Doyle, and for my money, it's better than
the original. "San Jose Mercury News" Rousing . . . Riveting . . .
Suspenseful. "Chicago Sun-Times""
"Wonderfully original and entertaining . . . absorbing from
beginning to end."--"Booklist"
"King has stepped onto the sacred literary preserve of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, poached Holmes, and brilliantly brought him to life
again."--"The Washington Post Book World""Remarkably
beguiling."--"The Boston Globe""A fascinating and often moving
account of a friendship so unusual and so compelling that one
almost accepts it as being historically real."--"The Denver
Post""Enchanting . . . "The Beekeeper's Apprentice "is real Laurie
R. King, not "faux" Conan Doyle, and for my money, it's better than
the original."--"San Jose"" Mercury News""Rousing . . . Riveting .
. . Suspenseful."--"Chicago"" Sun-Times"
"KING has stepped onto the sacred literary preserve of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, poached Holmes, and brilliantly brought him to life
again."
-"The Washington Post Book World"
"The Beekeeper's Apprentice has the power to charm the most
grizzled Baker Street irregular."
-"Daily News, New York"
"Rousing...riveting...suspenseful."
-"Chicago Sun-Times"
"Wonderful: an intelligently and imaginatively crafted novel that's
also great fun."
-"The Drood Review of Mystery" (Editor's Choice)
"Remarkably beguiling."
-"The Boston Globe"
YA-At 15, Mary Russell is tall and gangling, bespectacled and bookish. In 1915, the orphaned heiress is living in her ancestral home with an embittered aunt she has plucked from genteel poverty to act as a guardian until she reaches her majority. In order to escape the woman's generally malevolent disposition, she wanders the Downs. On one such outing, she trips over a gaunt, elderly man sitting on the ground, ``watching bees.'' This gentleman turns out to be Sherlock Holmes, and the resulting acquaintance evolves into a mentoring experience for the young woman. The story is well written in a style slightly reminiscent of Conan Doyle's, but is also very much King's own. The plot is somewhat predictable, but the characterizations are excellent and the times and places are skillfully evoked. Readers come to understand much of Holmes that was unexplained by Dr. Watson. These additions are entirely plausible, and the relationship between the great detective and his apprentice is delightful. Readers see much of Sussex, London, and even of student life at Oxford and the conditions of Romanies (Gypsies) in Wales. Wartime Britain is accurately evoked, and the whole is a lot of fun to read. While a fitting addition to the Holmes oeuvre, the narrative is delightfully feminist. It is likely to please YAs already entranced by Sherlock Holmes and will surely attract a few new fans.-Susan H. Woodcock, King's Park Library, Burke, VA
Wonderfully original and entertaining . . . absorbing from beginning to end. "Booklist" King has stepped onto the sacred literary preserve of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, poached Holmes, and brilliantly brought him to life again. "The Washington Post Book World" Remarkably beguiling. "The Boston Globe" A fascinating and often moving account of a friendship so unusual and so compelling that one almost accepts it as being historically real. "The Denver Post" Enchanting . . . "The Beekeeper's Apprentice "is real Laurie R. King, not "faux" Conan Doyle, and for my money, it's better than the original. "San Jose Mercury News" Rousing . . . Riveting . . . Suspenseful. "Chicago Sun-Times""
"Remarkably beguiling."--"The Boston Globe""A fascinating and often moving account of a friendship so unusual and so compelling that one almost accepts it as being historically real."--"The Denver Post""Enchanting . . . "The Beekeeper's Apprentice "is real Laurie R. King, not "faux" Conan Doyle, and for my money, it's better than the original."--"San Jose"" Mercury News""Rousing . . . Riveting . . . Suspenseful."--"Chicago"" Sun-Times"
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