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Forced to flee England at the close of 1918, Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen-year-old apprentice Mary Russell enter Palestine under the auspices of Holmes' enigmatic brother, Mycroft. Their mission: to solve a series of murders, seemingly unrelated to the growing tensions among Jew, Moslem and Christian, that threatens the fragile peace.
Their pursuit of the killer leads them from desert gully to cliff-hung monasteries, through labyrinthine bazaars, verminous hovels – and into mortal danger. Finally in the jewel-like city of Jerusalem, they will meet their adversary, a ruthless criminal whose lust for power could reduce the city's most ancient and sacred landmark to rubble and ignite this tinderbox of a land...
"Beguiling variation on Sherlock Holmes sequels...civilized, ingenious and engrossing
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"One of the most literate and gifted writers the mystery world has seen for a long time."
VAL McDERMAID
"Simultaneously inventive, charming, witty and suspenseful."
ELIZABETH GEORGE
"Mary Russell combines the quirky intellect of her mentor with a modern modus operandi...a heroine to contend with."
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"Challenges the clichés of history."
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