The Game

The Game by Laurie R King

 

Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Bantam (March 2, 2004)
ISBN-10: 0553801945

From School Library Journal
Adult/High School–Once apprentice, now investigator, Mary Russell travels to India in 1925 with her former mentor, now husband, Sherlock Holmes. In this seventh adventure, the duo is searching for Kimball O'Hara, the Kim of Rudyard Kipling's eponymous novel. On a mission from Sherlock's brother Mycroft, long involved in British espionage, they are tasked with finding Kim or evidence of his status as victim or traitor. Sailing to India on a luxury liner, they meet an American family with a debutante daughter, a social-climbing mother, and a left-leaning son, who of course reappear at a strategic moment. Upon their arrival, Mary and Sherlock disguise themselves as native traveling magicians and seek out an anti-English and very sadistic maharaja, "Jimmy." With her usual thorough research, King imbues the mystery with lots of historical detail and a real sense of time and place. This is one of the best in the series and can easily be read on its own, though readers will then want to go back and see how the strange, but surprisingly plausible, meeting and union between a young Mary and a considerably older Holmes actually occurs. Likewise, a previous reading of Kim is unnecessary, but teens will likely be intrigued enough to go on to read that as well. A sure bet for mystery lovers and historical fiction

 

Gosh...

What can I say?

It's Laurie R King, doing her thing with Mary Russell and Sherlock once again.

At first I thought it was beginning a bit slow.  I kept waiting for it to take off and it wasn't.   But then,.. suddenly... it took off like a shot and I couldn't put the book down!

This was sooo cool ! I mean, they were looking for "Kim".  RUDYARD KIPLING'S KIM! That was just too awesome lol.

I have to admit that Amazon tells it like it is this time around.  Much more can't be said without telling everything there is to say.

I have to say it again ...  I do really like this series of books, and I really like how Laurie R King writes them!   Also... I know I like how she writes even if it isn't Mary and Sherlock (though what's not to like with those two?), because I really did like her last book she put out called Touchstone.  All new characters and an all new mystery.. and I loved it.

It never ceases to amaze me because other than watching Basil Rathbone movies as Sherlock, I can't say I was ever a Sherlock "fan", but meeting Mary Russell changed all of that.  I have but one Mary Russell book left to read, "Locked Rooms" and then I will have read them all.

I can thank Carl for all of this.. (hmmm, maybe I should send him the bill for the 7 books!) because I came across her book "the Moor" to read for last year's RIP and became hooked.    Thanks Carl. (no even a hint of sarcasm there.. I've liked all the books that much!)

So, if you like mysteries.... you might want to try one or two (or more) of Laurie R King's books.  Oh, and just so you know... If you don't think you want to get 7 books, they are all individual mysteries, so it is possible to read just one. (about as likely as eating just one potato chip!)

Now, I think I will go and begin the last of the Mary Russell books, Locked Rooms.