{"id":170,"date":"2010-06-06T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T23:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2014-01-19T09:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T17:20:44","slug":"the-language-of-bees-a-novel-of-suspense-featuring-mary-russell-and-sherlock-holmes-by-laurie-r-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"The Language of Bees: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"workCoverImage alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.librarything.com\/picsizes\/c5\/9f\/c59f01026939e5f592b53545551434d414f4541.jpg\" alt=\"The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King\" width=\"112\" height=\"169\" \/>The Language of Bees, by Laurie R. King<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this book more than the previous ones. It felt more like an adventure book than a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>In this volume, Damian Adler surfaces again, and requests Sherlock Holmes&#8217;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&#8217;es son from an affair with Irene Adler.<\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t leave you with as many questions as most continued stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;es help in finding his missing wife and daughter. The disappearance gets complicated as we learn that his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","category-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}