

The Game
Author: Laurie R. King
Narrator: Jenny Sterlin
Unabridged: 13 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
Published: 03/08/2004
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Author: Laurie R. King
Narrator: Jenny Sterlin
Unabridged: 13 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
Published: 03/08/2004
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
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.
$1.99 on Amazon today! 1924. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes gets a New Year’s visit from Mycroft Holmes with a strange package from an English spy called Kimball O’Hara, more known as the Kim Kipling wrote about. He has withdrawn from the “Great Game” of espionage and disappeared. So Russell and Ho......more
Laurie King's The Game is a pleasure for the senses and mind. The Gameis chock full of interesting and beloved characters: Sherlock Holmes; his equally smart, competent, and courageous wife; and the grown-up version of Rudyard Kipling's Kim (and, perhaps, his reincarnation). King both writes and thi......more
We'd talked on a prior entry on my journal about how the entire Mary Russell series can be easily argued to be one of the most successful and longest-running Mary Sue storylines ever. This is not to say that the storyline and concept suck--just that the notion of sticking a new character into the es......more
A birthday dinner with Mycroft on Mary's twenty-fourth birthday in January, 1924, sends Holmes and Russell to India to search for Kimball O'Hara who hasn't been seen for three years. Tensions are rising in India. The nationalist uprising under Ghandi is gaining momentum and the rivalry between Russi......more