Лучшие книги Лори Р. Кинг

«Ученица Шерлока Холмса» — первый роман о бесстрашной, проницательной и обаятельной Мэри Рассел — сразу же привлек к себе внимание читателей и критики и был номинирован на международную литературную премию имени Агаты Кристи. После случайного знакомства со знаменитым Шерлоком Холмсом жизнь пятнадцатилетней провинциалки кардинально меняется. Впечатленный недюжинным умом, сильным характером и блестящей логикой девушки,
Холмс решает, что из нее, пожалуй, получится неплохой сыщик, и начинает учить ее азам своего мастерства. И вот уже Мэри предстоит участие в расследовании серьезного преступления: похищена дочь влиятельной американской пары, приехавшей отдохнуть в английский Суссекс. Мэри никак нельзя подвести своего прославленного учителя, она с энтузиазмом берется за дело. И тут на пути ученицы Холмса вырастает умный и жестокий враг, ее собственный профессор Мориарти.

Действие романа «Признание Холмса» происходит в Лондоне 20-х годов прошлого века.
Мэри Рассел, верная ученица Шерлока Холмса, достигла совершеннолетия. Теперь она богатая наследница и вольна делать что угодно. После неожиданно тягостного разговора с любимым учителем ей хочется лишь приключений и риска — и жизнь в лице подруги и однокашницы немедленно их ей подбрасывает. Мэри знакомится с женщиной-проповедником, Марджери Чайлд, необычайно обаятельной и обладающей таинственной властью над людьми. Вокруг основанного ею Храма происходят подозрительные события: погибло несколько девушек, предварительно завещав общине Марджери
все свое состояние. Рассел с азартом начинает смертельно опасное расследование. На выручку неожиданно приходит Холмс, для которого Мэри давно уже гораздо больше чем ученица. И знаменитый сыщик делает неожиданное признание…
Роман удостоен американской премии Ниро Вульфа за лучший детектив.

Еще один кирпичик в здание мировой `шерлокиады`: на этот раз знаменитый сыщик выступает в роли наставника юной Мэри Рассел, которая осваивает под руководством Холмса науку криминалистики и вместе с ним участвует в расследовании преступлений.

Солнечным апрельским утром 1915 года юная Мэри Рассел, прогуливаясь с книгой в руках по сассекским холмам, совершенно случайно знакомится с Шерлоком Холмсом. После этого жизнь ее резко меняется. Потрясенный незаурядным умом, железной логикой и сильным характером девушки, Холмс решает сделать ее своей ученицей. Под руководством знаменитого сыщика Мэри осваивает теорию и практику криминалистики и вместе с ним участвует в расследовании преступлений.

Романы Лори Кинг читаются на одном дыхании - интеллигентные, оригинальные, с лихо закрученными сюжетами. А главное, в них есть душа.

Англия, начало 1920-х годов. Недолго пришлось Шерлоку Холмсу наслаждаться прелестями размеренной сельской жизни в компании молодой жены Мэри Рассел. Однажды к ним в гости приезжает мисс Дороти Раскин, археолог-любитель, с которой Мэри познакомилась во время поездки в Палестину. Гостья передает хозяйке бесценную вещь — манускрипт I века нашей эры, письмо Марии Магдалины, из которого явствует, что Мария была одним из апостолов Иисуса Христа. Вернувшись в Лондон, мисс Раскин при загадочных обстоятельствах погибает под колесами автомобиля, при этом исчезает ее портфель с документами. Налицо хорошо спланированное преступление, которое необходимо…

1924 год. Шерлок Холмс и его жена и помощница Мэри Рассел совершают кругосветное путешествие, конечный пункт которого — Сан-Франциско. Мэри предстоит решить формальности, связанные с особняком, доставшимся ей в наследство от родителей. Кроме того, она надеется разгадать здесь некоторые загадки прошлого и найти объяснение непонятным снам, мучающим ее по ночам. Холмс подозревает, что это как-то связано с событиями землетрясения 1906 года, превратившего Сан-Франциско в пылающие развалины. Перед героями возникает цепочка непростых вопросов. Почему отец Мэри в завещании на много лет вперед запретил посторонним входить в дом? Почему, несмотря на…

Глубокая осень 1923 года. На болотах и холмах Дартмура снова появляется демоническая черная собака со светящимся посреди лба глазом, а также карета-призрак, которая как будто бы материализовалась из старинных местных легенд. Незадолго до приезда Холмса, приглашенного, чтобы разгадать тайну событий, странным образом повторяющих описанный в «Собаке Баскервилей» случай тридцатилетней давности, в этих краях погибает местный бродяга и вольный рудокоп Джозайя Гортон. Какое-то время спустя в пруду возле дома пастора находят убитым чудаковатого лектора и историка Петеринга. Холмс и Рассел отправляются осматривать те места, где жители пустоши…

1920 год... Шерлок Холмс и Мэри Рассел вступают в борьбу с могущественной организацией наркоторговцев, действующей под вывеской сектантского «Нового Храма в Господе»... Исход борьбы выглядит непредсказуемым: слишком могущественные и изощренные противники достались Холмсу и его молодой напарнице.

In Laurie R. King's "A Grave Talent", the unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco. A series of shocking murders has occurred, the victims far too innocent and defenseless. For lesbian Detective Kate Martinelli, just promoted to Homicide and paired with a seasoned cop who's less than thrilled to be handed a green partner, it's a difficult case that just keeps getting harder.

Then the police receive what appears to be a case-breaking lead: it seems that one of the residents of this odd colony is Vaun Adams, arguably the century's greatest woman painter and a notorious felon once convicted of a heinous crime.

But what really happened eighteen years ago? To bring a murderer to justice, Kate must delve into the artist's dark past—even if it means losing everything she holds dear.

Laurie R. King’s bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a rich and atmospheric tale that takes them to India to save the life of one of literature’s most fabled heroes. It’s the second day of the new year, 1924, and Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes. But the fragile peace will be fleeting—for a visit with Holmes’s gravely ill brother, Mycroft, brings news of an intrigue that is sure to halt their…

Edgar Award-winning author Laurie R. King again proves her flair fortantalizing mystery in this first novel of an acclaimed series. Long sinceretired from his observations of criminal humanity, Sherlock Holmes is engagedin a reclusive study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. Never did heexpect to meet an intellect to match his own--until he made the acquaintance ofa very modern 15-year-old girl whose mental acuity is equaled only by heraudacity, tenacity, and unconventional taste for trousers and cloth caps. Underthe master detective's sardonic instruction, Miss Mary Russell hones her talentfor deduction, disguises, and danger--in the chilling case of a landowner'smysterious fever, and in the kidnapping of an American senator's daughter inthe wilds of Wales. But her ultimate challenge is yet to come. A near-fatalbomb on her doorstep--and another on Holmes's--sends the two sleuths on thetrail of a villain whose machinations scatter meaningless clues and seemutterly without motive. The bomber's objective, however, is quite clear: to endRussell and Holmes's partnership...and their lives.
Edgar Award-winning author Laurie R. King

Sherlock Holmes meets his match in a formidable new enemy--
and his surprising new partner

"Rousing...riveting...suspenseful." --Chicago Sun-Times

"The Beekeeper's Apprentice has power to charm the most grizzled BakerStreet Irregular." --Daily News, New York

"If there is a new P. D. James... I would put my money on Laurie R. King, whoseA Grave Talent kept me reading deep into the night."
--The Boston Globe

"Amazing first novel with intelligence, intrigue, and intricacy...This workexhibits strong psychological undertones, compelling urgency, and dramaticaction. [Laurie King is] a writer to watch." --Library Journal

"Wonderful: an intelligently and imaginatively crafted novel that's alsogreat fun." --The Drood Review of Mystery (Editors' Choice of1994)

Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious teenage girl with a penchant for detection. Miss Mary Russell becomes Holmes' pupil and quickly hones her talent for deduction, disguises and danger. But when an elusive villain enters the picture, their partnership is put to a real test. Martin's Press.

When Sherlock Holmes retired to the Sussex Downs, his long-time (and long-suffering) housekeeper, Mrs Hudson, went along to run his life. But when the house is invaded, shortly after his meeting with Miss Mary Russell, Mr Holmes refuses to turn his mind to the problem, leaving Mrs Hudson herself to solve the case.

Note: Mrs Hudson's Case is now also included in King's 2016 short story collection, Mary Russell's War: And Other Stories of Suspense.

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal.

After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian’s house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat.

Holmes rushes after Damian while Russell, slowed down by a recent injury, stays behind to search the empty house. In Damian’s studio, she discovers four crates packed with memorabilia related to Holmes’ grand-uncle, the artist Horace Vernet. It’s an odd mix of treasures and clutter, including a tarnished silver lamp with a rotating an antique yet sophisticated form of zoetrope, fitted with strips of paper whose images dance with the lantern’s spin.

In the same crate is an old journal written in a nearly impenetrable code. Intrigued, Russell sets about deciphering the intricate cryptograph, slowly realizing that each entry is built around an image—the first of which is a child, bundled into a carriage by an abductor, watching her mother recede from view.

Russell is troubled, then entranced, but each entry she decodes brings more questions. Who is the young woman who created this elaborate puzzle? What does she have to do with Damian, or the Vernets—or the threat hovering over the house?

The secrets of the past appear to be reaching into the present. And it seems increasingly urgent that Russell figure out how the journal and lantern are related to Damian—and possibly to Sherlock Holmes himself.

Could there be things about his own history that even the master detective does not perceive?

A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life--with potentially fatal consequences--in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series.

A magnificent house, vast formal gardens, a golden family that shaped California, and a colorful past filled with now-famous artists: the Gardener Estate was a twentieth-century Eden.

And now, just as the Estate is preparing to move into a new future, restoration work on some of its art digs up a grim relic of the home's past: a human skull, hidden away for decades.

Inspector Raquel Laing has her work cut out for her. Fifty years ago, the Estate's young heir, Rob Gardener, turned his palatial home into a counterculture commune of peace, love, and equality. But that was also a time when serial killers preyed on innocents--monsters like The Highwayman, whose case has just surged back into the public eye.

Could the skull belong to one of his victims?

To Raquel--a woman who knows all about colorful pasts--the bones clearly seem linked to The Highwayman. But as she dives into the Estate's archives to look for signs of his presence, what she unearths begins to take on a dark reality all of its own.

Everything she finds keeps bringing her back to Rob Gardener himself. While he might be a gray-haired recluse now, back then he was a troubled young Vietnam vet whose girlfriend vanished after a midsummer festival at the Estate.

But a lot of people seem to have disappeared from the Gardener Estate that summer when the commune mysteriously fell apart: a young woman, her child, and Rob's brother, Fort.

The pressure is on, and Raquel needs to solve this case--before The Highwayman slips away, or another Gardener vanishes.

A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat--all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this chilling new adventure.

The queen is Marie of Roumania: the doubly royal granddaughter to Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia. A famous beauty who was married at seventeen into Roumania's young dynasty, Marie had beguiled the Paris Peace Conference into returning her adopted country's long-lost provinces, single-handedly transforming Roumania from a backwater into a force.

The castle is Bran: a tall, quirky, ancient structure perched on high rocks overlooking the border between Roumania and its newly regained territory of Transylvania. The castle was a gift to Queen Marie, a thanks from her people, and she loves it as she loves her own children.

The threat is...now, that is less clear. Shadowy figures, vague whispers, the fears of girls, dangers that may only be accidents. But this is a land of long memory and hidden corners, a land that had known Vlad the Impaler, a land from whose churchyards the shades creep.

When Queen Marie calls, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are as dubious as they are reluctant. But a young girl is involved, and a beautiful queen. Surely it won't take long to shine light on this unlikely case of what would seem to be strigoi?

Or, as they are known in the West...vampires.

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes turn the Riviera upside-down to crack their most captivating case yet in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today."

It's summertime on the Riviera, where the Jazz Age is busily reinventing the holiday delights of warm days on golden sand and cool nights on terraces and dance floors. Just up the coast lies a more traditional pleasure ground: Monte Carlo, where fortunes are won, lost, stolen, and hidden away. So when Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes happen across the Côte d'Azur in this summer of 1925, they find themselves pulled between the young and the old, hot sun and cool jazz, new friendships and old loyalties, childlike pleasures and very grownup sins...

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are back in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today."

A June summer's evening, on the Sussex Downs, in 1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are strolling across their orchard when the telephone rings: an old friend's beloved aunt has failed to return following a supervised outing from Bedlam. After the previous few weeks--with a bloody murder, a terrible loss, and startling revelations about Holmes--Russell is feeling a bit unbalanced herself. The last thing she wants is to deal with the mad, and yet, she can't say no.

The Lady Vivian Beaconsfield has spent most of her adult life in one asylum after another, yet he seemed to be improving--or at least, finding a point of balance in her madness. So why did she disappear? Did she take the family's jewels with her, or did someone else? The Bedlam nurse, perhaps?

The trail leads Russell and Holmes through Bedlam's stony halls to the warm Venice lagoon, where ethereal beauty is jarred by Mussolini's Blackshirts, where the gilded Lido set may be tempting a madwoman, and where Cole Porter sits at a piano, playing with ideas..

When Mary Russell and her long-time mentor Sherlock Holmes decide to marry in early 1921, it’s a practical decision, merely an extension of their partnership—right? No romantic nonsense for these two. Only, this simple arrangement soon begins to go sideways, and....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series weaves rich historical detail and provocative themes with intriguing characters and enthralling suspense. Russell and Holmes have become one of modern literature’s most beloved teams. But does this adventure end it all?

Mary Russell is used to dark secrets—her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond.

And what of the other person to whom Mary Russell has opened her heart: the couple’s longtime housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson? Russell’s faith and affection are suddenly shattered when a man arrives on the doorstep claiming to be Mrs. Hudson’s son.

What Samuel Hudson tells Russell cannot possibly be true, yet she believes him—as surely as she believes the threat of the gun in his hand. In a devastating instant, everything changes. And when the scene is discovered—a pool of blood on the floor, the smell of gunpowder in the air—the most shocking revelation of all is that the grim clues point directly to Clara Hudson.

Or rather to Clarissa, the woman she was before Baker Street.

The key to Russell’s sacrifice lies in Mrs. Hudson’s past. To uncover the truth, a frantic Sherlock Holmes must put aside his anguish and push deep into his housekeeper’s secrets—to a time before her disguise was assumed, before her crimes were buried away.

There is death here, and murder, and trust betrayed.

And nothing will ever be the same.

For years now, readers of the Russell Memoirs have wondered about the tantalizing mentions of Japan. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes had spent three weeks there, between India (The Game) and San Francisco (Locked Rooms). The time has finally come to tell that story.
It is 1925, and Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes arrive home to find a familiar decorative stone installed in their garden. A stone with a name, which they last saw in the Tokyo garden of the future Emperor of Japan. It is the first indication that the investigation they did for him in 1924 might not be as complete as they had thought. In Japan there were spies, in Oxford there are dreams. In both places there is a small dark-haired woman and danger.