Riviera Gold – Laurie R. King Free Audiobook

Written by Laurie R. King
Read by Jenny Sterlin
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Mary Russell Mystery Series, Book 16
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Release date: September 22, 2020
Duration: 12:11:21

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes turn the Riviera upside down to crack their most captivating case yet.

Its summertime on the Riviera, and the Jazz Age has come to Frances 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 artistsand some of the scoundrels linked with Monte Carlos 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 circles recent additions: the Holmeses former housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson, who hasnt been seen since she fled England under a cloud of false murder accusations. When a beautiful young man is found dead in Mrs. Hudsons front room, she becomes the prime suspect in yet another murder. Russell is certain of Mrs. Hudsons 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 Carlos gilded casinos may stop at nothing to keep the pair away from what Mrs. Hudsons 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.

Library Journal….Mary Russell, still reeling from revelations about former landlady Mrs. Hudson’s criminal past in The Murder of Mary Russell, travels to Monaco to check on the woman she thought she knew well. ….. VERDICT Followers of the series will enjoy King’s delightful new series entry, while first-time readers will love the setting and the twists of the mystery.

Booklist….This latest adventure starring Mary Russell, the young wife of Sherlock Holmes, takes up where Island of the Mad (2018) ended. Mary leaves Venice for a romp on the Riviera, with Sherlock to follow….. King’s formula is well honed by now, but that doesn’t make her books any less entertaining. Cleverly, she usually adds a topic readers may not think they’re interested in?here it’s bronze casting?and makes it fascinating. Hints of ardor between Russell and Holmes (absent in previous adventures) add a bit of frisson.