Search - Locked Rooms (Mary Russell, Bk 8)

This is a great book for readers interested in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. The author obviously drew on her grandparents' experiences, and has captured the PTSD that many survivors suffered from. In addition, the book deals with how greed can destroy people, and how sociopathic killers target victims. Sherlock Holmes is in the story, but he and wife Mary are merely tools in the hands of the writer.

Fiction can not possibly get better than this. Mary Russell just happens to be married to Sherlock Holmes and en route to bustling San Francusco to settle her family's estate. But as they get closer to port, Mary falls prey to utroubling dreams and irrational behavior. In 1906 when Mary was six, the city was devastated by an earthquake. For years, Mary has insisted she lived elsewhere at the time. But Holmes knows better. It's clear that whatever unpleasantness Mary has forgotten, it hasn't forgotten her. A series of mysterious deaths leads Russell and Holmes from the winding streets of Chinatown to the unspoken secrets of a parent's marriage and the tragic accident that Mary alone survived. What Russell dscovers is that even a forgotten past never dies ... and it can kill again."

This book is part of THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE series. Fantastic for Sherlock Holmes fans. Holmes is now married to Mary Russell, who either did or did not endure the horrors of the great San Francisco fire which destroyed the city---Russell has some memory problems and can't quite remember, but SOMEONE does remember what happened, and that someone wants her most thoroughly dead!