- Capitola Book Cafe A Letter to Mary (St. Martins, ) is Lauire King's third novel about Mary Russell, the feisty independent woman who married the retired Sherlock Holmes. This novel involves a great mystery about Zionism and Palestine. NPR's Fresh Air strongly praised it as a book of the year. Publishers Weekly says it sets a new paradigm for Homsian scholarship... If you can't imagine the ...www.capitolabookcafe.com/andrea/king.html