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Mysteries in Different Times

Write about a movie franchise or book series that you love.

Laurie R. King is my go to for a great series. I have read a lot of the works she published. Her stories draw you in and show you new environments. Who wouldn't love to live on an island building furniture for a living? Folly is a stand alone novel. King also wrote the Kate Martinelli series.

I especially like her series starring Mary Russell as Sherlock Holmes wife. Sherlock first met Mary when she was 15. The settings of the stories drop the reader into different periods of history. The characters exhibit different types of talents. Their talents keep them safe and make them great detectives. They take on other peoples problems; solving the problems with efficiency and spying techniques.

The history in the books is special. It makes the reader look at some specific event you maybe actually did not hear about in a class at school. You look at history closely from within, as the story unfolds. Inside history, you see the war as it is being fought, you see women who need women,s rights to escalate, and you see politics as they play out in a realistic way. Along the way you learn a little about Oxford and great libraries.

Mary Russell may have learned some of her talents from Sherlock Holmes nevertheless, she often stands alone as she detects and solves mystery. How can you not like a character that can throw a swift and quiet knife in her own defense? How she came by this talent is part of a thrilling story.

The series starts with a great find of old manuscripts in a worn trunk. The tales are told by the person who comes into possession of the trunk.

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Here I am writing about this series and I have not read Castle Shade. Something to look forward too.