At least half the book, perhaps more, is spent on this episode, beginning with the couple’s embarkation on the ship that will take them to Japan. I was particularly eager for this book because it promised to fill in a missing adventure – the month the pair spent in Japan on their way from India ( The Game) to San Francisco ( Locked Rooms), and the problem that brought them into contact with the emperor’s heir. While not quite as strong as The Language of Bees and God of the Hive, it still has most of what I look for in a Russell/Holmes novel: an intellectually challenging puzzle, well-limned characters, and above all the intellect and wit of the two main characters. Dreaming Spies was nearly everything I hoped for. Laurie King’s mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her partner and husband Sherlock Holmes has long been one of my favorites, so I always look forward to a new one with great anticipation. In both places, there is a small, dark-haired woman, and danger. In Japan there were spies, in Oxford there are dreams. It is the first indication that the investigation they did for him in 1924 might not be as…complete as they had thought. A stone with a name, which they last saw in the Tokyo garden of the future emperor of Japan.

It is 1925, and Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes arrive home to find…a stone. The time has finally come, to tell that story. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes had spent three weeks there, between India ( The Game) and San Francisco ( Locked Rooms). Genres: British mystery, Historical MysteryĪlso in this series: Locked Rooms, The Murder of Mary Russell, Locked Rooms, Riviera Gold, Mary Russell's War: And Other Stories of SuspenseĪlso by this author: Locked Rooms, The Murder of Mary Russell, Locked Rooms, Riviera Gold, Mary Russell's War: And Other Stories of Suspenseįor years now, readers of the Russell Memoirs have wondered about the tantalizing mentions of Japan. Published by Bantam on February 17th 2015

Series: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #13

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