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Riviera Gold

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Riviera Gold

By: Laurie R. King
Narrated by: 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 Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Suspense
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Waited so long for this and saved it up for Christmas so was very disappointed to find it far from her best, in fact a bit tedious in places. Hope the next one returns to her usual excellent form.

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I’ve fallen head over heals with Laurie R King and her stories of Mary Russell. Jenny Sterling narrates with such fabulous charm and charisma. Her voice I’ve grown to love too. My first audiobooks. My message to Laurie is thank you for bringing Mary in to my life. To Jenny, thank you for being the beautiful voice of Mary, and Holmes of course…. Your voice encapsulates the true essence of their characters. Jenny, you got me from the beginning. Xx

Laurie R King is my No 1 favourite

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Bit slow at start but very exciting eventually.
Would have liked more Holmes/Russell working together. Narrator's Holmes voice much too posh. Bit disappointing overall.

Too much Russell not enough Holmes/Russell

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It seems the author is running out of steam, this audiobook got going briefly in the middle then went downhill again.
I still don't know how the author got away with the use of these characters, not doing justice to them and the incredulity these books inspire is a strange mix. The books are best if you forget about the great Conan Doyle stories, it's no use getting annoyed at what the author has done to 'our beloved Holmes. Watson et al . I listen to them because I can give them back, Riviera is perhaps a tale too far, boring and long winded in parts, an average whodunnit !

running out of steam.......

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