God of the Hive - Laurie King

Following on from last year’s ‘Language of Bees’ King continues her tale. Arrest warrants are still out for Mary Russell, her husband Sherlock Holmes and young Damian Adler. Their forces are split with Holmes and a badly injured Adler going to ground on the continent while Mary and Adler’s young daughter crash land in the life of an eccentric former war veteran in the Lake District. But worse is to come, in London someone close to Holmes and Russell has gone missing, presumed dead which isn’t good news for Inspector Lestrade as he was the last man to see that person alive. Drawn back to a capital he hardly recognizes Holmes senses a changing of the guard. A new order is struggling to be born and it wishes to wipe out any traces of Holmes’ London including Holmes himself.