Much like how A Horse and His Boy is a separate novel whose narrative fits into a gap within The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe in C.S.

In the jewel-like city of Jerusalem, they will at last meet their adversary, whose lust for power could reduce the city’s most ancient and sacred place to rubble and ignite a tinderbox of hostilities just waiting for a spark.…Īs aforementioned, O Jerusalem was the fifth novel published in the Mary Russell series, but is itself not a sequel but a midquel(TBH: had to look up the proper term, but even them I’m uncertain that this is the right idea – there are so many – look out for a potential post on the numbers ‘quels’ in the future!). What they unexpectedly uncover will lead Russell and Holmes through an exotic gauntlet of labyrinthine bazaars, verminous hovels, cliff-hung monasteries-and into mortal danger. Still, no one is too pleased at Holmes’s insistence on reconstructing the most recent homicide in the desert gully where it occurred. Their arrival coincides with a rash of unsolved murders that has baffled the authorities and seems unrelated to the growing tensions in the area among Jew, Moslem, and Christian. Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen-year-old apprentice Mary Russell enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes’s enigmatic brother, Mycroft.

King, but isn’t the fifth chronologically so there’s little chance for spoilers series wise, though there are potential ones for the first book. With any luck, it won’t be the only one up today.ĭISCLAIMER: O Jerusalem is the fifth book in the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. I’ve been meaning to have this review posted since last week, but life kept interfering.

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