The Moor
A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

I read reviews warning the reader to skip over this one in the series, but that advice goes against my nature as a reader. I wish I had been able to listen. Meanwhile, the book is summed up as follows. (Here be spoilers) Holmes--"Russell, come to rainy, foggy Devonshire." Mary---"No." (Changes mind) Mary......more

Dear Miss Russell/ Mrs. Holmes, Having perused the earlier installments of your chronicles with a good degree of enjoyment, I regret to say that I am somewhat disappointed in this one. The mystery’s premise is valid, if rather simple, but the execution is sorely lacking. I find it to be utterly uninv......more

I have to say I really enjoyed The Moor. I loved everything about it. I picked it up at a book sale, on a whim, and glad I did. Sherlock Holmes...married?? That was the first thing that grabbed my attention. The second was the fact the book was written from a female point of view. A female sleuth wh......more

This could have done with a lot less slogging through the wet moors to question the populace, and fewer tedious details about the life and writings of Holmes' & Russell's host. It could also have done with less indulgence in nostalgia for the Hound of the Baskervilles. Although some of that was to b......more

This was by far the worst book of the Marry Russel series. King started off with such a great idea, discovering the reasons behind several legitimate sightings of a spectral coach carrying a cursed woman and her devilish dog on a dark moor. However the execution was tedious. King simply has a diffic......more