![]() ![]() Laurie King connects us, through details of language, custom, history, and sensual impressions, to this very alien environment. Here, a series of murders threatens the fragile peace. Sherlock's well-connected brother Mycroft sends them to Palestine to do some international sleuthing. Nineteen-year-old Mary and her fiftysomething mentor are forced to flee England to escape a deadly adversary. ![]() Perhaps King was afraid that her characters, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, were becoming too cozy as an old married couple, and she wanted to recreate the edgy sexual tension of their first encounter. Although O Jerusalem is Laurie King's fifth book in her Holmes-Russell series, it actually takes us back to the era of her first book, The Beekeeper's Apprentice. ![]()
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