by Laurie R. King
Effective period spy thriller. It seems to pick up on elements of her longer Holmes/Russell series, with Watson & Holmes type traits spread among the cast and an emphasis on discussing the woman's role(s) in society at the time. Enjoyable and unexpected. In the style of classic literature, it has ...
Maybe it's because I read The Bones of Paris first (it's the second Harris Stuyvesant book). I don't know; I just preferred the second book.In this outing, FBI agent Harris Stuyvesant is in England chasing after an anarchist bomber whose identity he is sure he knows. With no support from J. Edgar Ho...
When I started reading Laurie R King's Mary Russell / Sherlock Holmes series a couple of years ago, after a very long break from her work, I didn't know about this novel. First published in 2007, it's been a standalone work until recently, when a second novel featuring the same main protagonists, “T...
I really wanted to really like it. I didn't. Had to s-l-o-g through most of it. None of the characters interested me particularly, well, except Grey but he certainly wasn't central. Slow going.
It took me a little while to warm up to the main character, Harris Stuyvesant, a US federal agent on the trail of Richard Bunsen, an up-and-coming figure in the English labor movement, whom he believes to be responsible for a series of bombings in the US, one of which left Stuyvesant's beloved young...
This book cost me hours of my life. Hours that I will never get back. And for the time I put in, I am rewarded with- nothing. It makes me quite genuinely angry.Oh wait, the story has made me reconsider every plot I'm working on, so that if it holds the least resemblance to anything detailed in this ...
A stand alone novel from the author of the Holmes/Russell series. Captures the feel of life in the 1920's, and terrorism of a different kind.
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