Tuesday, March 4, 2014

April 2014 Selection

Join the North Providence  Mystery Book Club on Tuesday April 1, 2014 at 7:00 PM as we discuss The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King. This is the first book in the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series. The book has fifteen year old Mary Russell meeting a retired Sherlock Holmes in Sussex, England and begins collaborating with him.
From the publisher's website: "In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees when a young girl literally stumbles into him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes--and match him wit for wit. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern twentieth-century woman proves a deft protege, and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. In their first case together, they  must track down a kidnapped American senator's daughter and confront a truly cunning adversary--a bomber who has set trip wires for the sleuths and who will stop at nothing to end their partnership. Full of brilliant deductions, disguises, and dangers, this this is the first book of the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries."