The Language of Bees, by Laurie R. King
I enjoyed this book more than the previous ones. It felt more like an adventure book than a mystery.
In this volume, Damian Adler surfaces again, and requests Sherlock Holmes’es help in finding his missing wife and daughter. The disappearance gets complicated as we learn that his wife is involved in a religious cult, and Damian is purported to be Sherlock Holmes’es son from an affair with Irene Adler.
L’Estrade gets invloved in the mystery, Sherlock and Mary seek assistance from Mycroft, and the adventure takes them through northern Scotland to the Orkeny Islands.
The book is fun and fairly fast-paced. Unfortunately is the first of a two parter. Although many issues are not resolved in this volume, it doesn’t leave you with as many questions as most continued stories.