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Riviera Gold

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Riviera Gold

Auteur(s): Laurie R. King
Narrateur(s): Jenny Sterlin
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Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes turn the Riviera upside down to crack their most captivating case yet in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called “the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.”

It’s summertime on the Riviera, and the Jazz Age has come to France’s once-sleepy beaches. From their music-filled terraces, American expatriates gaze along the coastline at the lights of Monte Carlo, where fortunes are won, lost, stolen, and sometimes hidden away. When Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes arrive, they find their partnership pulled between youthful pleasures and old sins, hot sun and cool jazz, new affections and enduring loyalties.

Russell falls into easy friendship with an enthralling American couple, Sara and Gerald Murphy, whose golden life on the Riviera has begun to attract famous writers and artists—and some of the scoundrels linked with Monte Carlo’s underworld. The Murphy set will go on to inspire everyone from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Pablo Picasso, but in this summer of 1925, their importance for Russell lies in one of their circle’s recent additions: the Holmeses’ former housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson, who hasn’t been seen since she fled England under a cloud of false murder accusations.

When a beautiful young man is found dead in Mrs. Hudson’s front room, she becomes the prime suspect in yet another murder. Russell is certain of Mrs. Hudson’s innocence; Holmes is not. But the old woman’s colorful past has been a source of tension between them before, and now the dangerous players who control Monte Carlo’s gilded casinos may stop at nothing to keep the pair away from what Mrs. Hudson’s youthful history could bring to light.

The Riviera is a place where treasure can be false, where love can destroy, and where life, as Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes will discover, can be cheap—even when it is made of solid gold.©2020 Laurie R. King (P)2020 Recorded Books Détective Détectives classiques Femmes détectives Fiction Fiction féminine Historique Suspense
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every new russell/homes novel further astonishes me with the depth and breadth of Ms King's research and understanding of the era and the people who inhabit it. Riviera gold is no exception- we find ourselves being teased with the nicknames for fitzgerald, dos pasos and a guest appearance by Pablo picasso. Monte Carlo appears to be a sleepy town perched on rocks that challenge even Mountain goats. and a molding casino but with a royal family determined to bring it into the 20th century. smugglers, murderers, nefarious arms dealers people the underbelly of this apparently sleepy town. and suddenly there's Miss Hudson, right in the midst of it. and as Mary learns to her great surprise and confusion, Mrs Hudson has a very colorful past. and somehow, her future is entangled with white russians, and Creek arms dealers. good grief. not to mention an enterprising sculptor/con man and it gets even more complicated from there. all in all a wonderful Rob and I thoroughly enjoyed every word. as usual the production and duration are spot on and Jenny Sterlin is definitely a star who brings Russell and Holmes and their friends and acquaintances to Vivid life. I'm so looking forward to the next chapter in Mary Russell and Sherlock's homes adventures. meanwhile, friends enjoy the feast laid before you..

fascinating, complex and fun

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Another wonderful story by Laurie R. King. A nice amount of Sherlock in there too!

Always a pleasure!

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I've been so anxious for this to be released. There were so many repeated delays that I was worried it wouldn't be up to the same quality and unfortunately I was correct. It took me a long time to "get into it". I miss the quality of the narration and story I came to love from earlier novels. If there is another in the series I hope we see and hear something along the lines of O Jerusalem or Justice Hall.

bit of a let down

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