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Title	:	O Jerusalem (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #5)
Author	:	Laurie R. King
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 425 pages
Published	:	June 28th 2000 by Bantam Books (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Historical Mystery

O Jerusalem (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #5)

Laurie R. King

Paperback | Pages: 425 pages

Rating: 4.15 | 16199 Users | 812 Reviews

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With her bestselling mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell, Laurie R. King has created "lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company," according to The New York Times Book Review. Now the author of The Beekeeper's Apprentice and The Moor--the first writer since Patricia Cornwell to win both the American Edgar and British Creasey Awards for a debut novel (A Grave Talent)--unfolds a hitherto unknown chapter in the history of Russell's apprenticeship to the great detective.

At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England's green and pleasant land, Russell and Holmes enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes' enigmatic brother, Mycroft.

"Gentlemen, we are at your service." Thus Holmes greets the two travel-grimed Arab figures who receive them in the orange groves fringing the Holy Land. Whatever role could the volatile Ali and the taciturn Mahmoud play in Mycroft's design for this land the British so recently wrested from the Turks? After passing a series of tests, Holmes and Russell learn their guides are engaged in a mission for His Majesty's Government, and disguise themselves as Bedouins--Russell as the beardless youth "Amir"--to join them in a stealthy reconnaissance through the dusty countryside.

A recent rash of murders seems unrelated to the growing tensions between Jew, Moslem, and Christian, yet Holmes is adamant that he must reconstruct the most recent one in the desert gully where it occurred. His singular findings will lead him and Russell through labyrinthine bazaars, verminous inns, cliff-hung monasteries--and into mortal danger. When her mentor's inquiries jeopardize his life, Russell fearlessly wields a pistol and even assays the arts of seduction to save him. Bruised and bloodied, the pair ascend to the jewellike city of Jerusalem, where they will at last meet their adversary, whose lust for savagery and power could reduce the city's most ancient and sacred place to rubble and ignite this tinderbox of a land....

Classically Holmesian yet enchantingly fresh, sinuously plotted, with colorful characters and a dazzling historic ambience, O Jerusalem sweeps readers ever onward in the thrill of the chase.


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Original Title:	O Jerusalem
ISBN:	0553581058 (ISBN13: 9780553581058)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.laurierking.com/?page_id=1211
Series:	Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #5
Characters:	Mary Russell, Ali Hazr, Mahmoud Hazr, Sherlock Holmes
Setting:	Israel Jerusalem(Israel)

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This is an excellent addition to the series! Chronologically it takes place during the end of book one. I read it after book two, and I'm glad I went back to it. This story is more a typical mystery/adventure than the previous books, being a very linear tale of their time in Palestine tracking down a possible spy. There were no long digressions about theology, women's rights, or any of the other things the previous books had. Just solid story. (I liked the digressions, but I liked this, too.)

I very much enjoy this series! I can suspend a lot of disbelief when I'm this entertained, so people learning fluent Arabic in a matter of a couple of weeks is fine with me. I did enjoy this book and read it in about two days. And I'm on to the next one already. I'll read them all, I'm sure. The characters are FUN!But there was ONE thing that I kept thinking about with this book, and maybe it's just me, but how can a 19 year old woman don a male disguise for SIX WEEKS in a foreign country, where

This book was not only another fascinating mystery, but it also taught me much about the history of the city of Jerusalem. If you want to know what the city was like in the first few years after the Turks lost control, this book will introduce you to its political complexities and the everyday lives of its residents. I like the way the author links historical figures to her narratives. I feel like I get a good story with a little history mixed in. And of course, I like seeing the relationship

The usual Russell and Holmes. The book moved quickly especially in the second half. Enjoyable but I have preferred some of the others in the series.

Read this story second, after the authors introductory novel. Especially if you liked The Beekeepers Apprentice. Dont go to book #2. This is as good, if not better than the first, at times. King can write. King can tell a great story, and the setting is fantastically detailed. The historical information will jump out at you. I hope you will be as transfixed as I was. I could not put it down. This is the expanded version of the time Russell and Holmes were in Palestine, hiding out from the people

It's a little out of sequence with the book before, but Laurie King writes so deliciously that it really doesn't matter where you follow Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes as they help to solve mysteries. It's a nice change to go into the country where Mary has her educational training so we get to see some of the depths of her passions play out in what must be a real treasure house for her. Fast paced and a good change from the expected. Such a great series.

I started reading this series loving them, but I have to say they are getting more and more disappointing. The characters are still the highlight, but King is having a worse and worse time with plots - this one felt so unresolved that I literally checked to see if there had been pages ripped out to explain what had just happened. I did like the descriptions of Palestine and the nomadic life of Holmes and Russell, but King's attention seemed to be so focused on that that the mystery element