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A Monstrous Regiment of Women

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Book 2

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A Monstrous Regiment of Women

By: Laurie R. King
Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
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While visiting London, Mary Russell comes across a friend from Oxford. The young woman introduces Mary to Margery Childe, charismatic leader of a religious sect involved in the suffrage movement.

When several members of the sect's female volunteers are murdered, Mary starts to investigate - but events spiral out of control, and Mary's search plunges her into the worst danger she has yet faced....

©1995 Laurie R. King (P)1996 Recorded Books LLC Detective Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Suspense
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Laurie R King continues her Holmes books, and develops the relationship between Sherlock and Mary. The narration is excellent, but there’s a problem with the sound quality; there are noises in the background and in places you can hear the text repeated faintly.

Holmes & Russell II

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I enjoyed this book as much as Laurie King’s first - the Beekeepers’s Apprentice. I can’t wait to buy the third. The author has developed the relationship between Mary and Holmes very well and the new characters are intriguing. You just can’t be sure who the perpetrator is until the very end.
The narration is excellent and I look forward to listening everyday. Looking forward to the next instalment.

Another Fantastic Book

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I bought this as soon as I finished 'The Beekeeper's Apprentice' and found it equally enjoyable. Laurie King's writing is very good and her characters have depth. Hope the quality is maintained throughout the series, just started book 3 and so far so good...

As good as the first

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I found the story hard to get into at first until I realised what was actually happening. Then I found it quite a romp!

Intriguing

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There’s two threads running through this book, the detective side which I enjoyed - that side is very much like book 1. So if you liked that element in book 1 you’ll probably like this bit of the book.
Then there’s character development, which is where I found it lost some of the charm - there’s a scene towards the end where a character makes a statement about their past feelings. My response was yuck if that’s true that was really creepy, I know it’s set in a different time with different attitudes but as a modern reader I’m not certain that character has been developed enough to not elicit that response from many, particularly female, modern day reader. It’s the sort of behaviour many of us have experienced in real life and just find creepy and to stand a chance of getting away with it in a book I feel the character needs to be more likeable etc. However, I’m not certain even then it’d work. I see the book was first printed in 1995 and I suspect that getting on for 30 years later that now that scene would be flagged as needing more work, or just dropping that line all together.

Trying to keep this spoiler free but of it’s time

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