Laurie R. King

When Mary Russell returns home from abroad with her husband, the renowned Sherlock Holmes, her plans for peace and tranquillity are soon thwarted with the arrival of enigmatic painter Damian Adler. Adler, searching for his missing wife and child, leads them on a dangerous journey for answers.

August 1923 and the peace of Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell is shattered by the visit of Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archeologist, returning from the Holy Land. The following day Dorothy is murdered, so once again Holmes and Russell step in to investigate.

Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes and their friends have scattered to the winds. Chased by those who want them dead, and seeking answers to deadly mysteries, the consequences of what they find will circle the globe. It will take more than deduction if they ever want to see each other alive again.

Mary Russell is used to dark secrets - her own, and those of her famous husband, Sherlock Holmes. But Russell's faith and affection are suddenly shattered when a man arrives on the doorstep claiming to be the couple's longtime housekeeper, Mrs Hudson's, son. And in a devastating instant, everything changes....

When Casey Martinelli transfers to a San Francisco precinct, she is paired with Alonzo Hawkin on a serial killing case. The bodies of three little girls have been found in a colony outside the city. When their investigation quickly reveals that one resident is a convicted child-murderer, it all seems too cut and dried.