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Title: The Murder of Mary Russell
Subtitle: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Book 14
Author: Laurie R. King
Narrator: Jenny Sterlin, Susan Lyons
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-20-17
Publisher: Lamplight Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:
Over the course of a decade together, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes have forged an indissoluble bond. But what of the other person Mary Russell has opened her heart to, Mrs Hudson? Blood on the floor, and the smell of gunshot in the air: both point directly at Clara Hudson.
The key to Russell's sacrifice lies in Mrs Hudson's past, and to uncover the crime Holmes must put aside his anguish and push deep into his housekeeper's secrets.

Critic Reviews:
"The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today." (Lee Child)
"Impossible to put down." (Romantic Times)

Members Reviews:
Mrs. Hudson, I presume?
With this mystery, Laurie R. King takes the reader on a detour: The main character is not Mary Russell or Sherlock Holmes, but their staid, reliable retainer, Mrs. Hudson, who has a past no one would have dreamed.
The story starts with Holmes away, Mrs. Hudson on an errand, and Mary working alone in her garden. She hears a car drive up, and a man identifying himself as Mrs. Hudson's long-lost son, Samuel, greets her. When Mrs. Hudson returns, she finds a still-warm teapot on the stove, pools of blood on the sitting room floor, and no sign of Mary. What happened?
The story jumps back and forth between that story line -- whose blood was it, anyway? -- and the life history of Clara (Clarissa in her younger years) Hudson. To go into much of the story would give away the plot, and I don't want to do that. Suffice it to say that the respectable matron had quite a different life in her younger days! Holmes isn't really involved until the latter half of the book, as he investigates what happened to his wife. Is she dead?
King's recent Holmes/Russell books have had the couple working apart more than together, and this one is no exception. While I prefer the couple to work together, I didn't mind their separation as much with this book as I did with the others because the story of Mrs. Hudson is fascinating. It takes the reader back to the mid- to late 1800s in both Australia and London.
This is a worthy addition to King's long series about Holmes and Russell. While it can be read as a stand-alone book, I urge readers to start with the first book, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, where Holmes and Russell meet, and move forward through the series for a richer experience.

The best yet!
I've read all the Mary Russell novels, and pre-ordered this one. I finished it last night. This was the cherry on the sundae.
I won't give anything away, but part of the pleasure in reading 'The Murder of Mary Russell' was stepping out of the great story and imagining Ms. King writing it. Threads and fragments left by Doyle in Watson's narrative are completed with her own incredible intellect and the Mary Russell story; the minds of the authors are speaking to each other across a century in time, deliciously completing this part of the Holmes history. I rationed the book as I started to run out of pages... I hope it's not the last one!
Ms. King, I don't know if you read these reviews (I've never written one, but I loved this book), but if you do, Mary kept me company and was a great comfort during the year of my mother's death.