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Book Review of A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Bk 2)

A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Bk 2)
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Laurie King has done it again. Her heroine Mary Russell, apprentice to Sherlock Holmes has come into a considerable inheritance in 1921. Still she enjoys her nightime prowls in disguise through London's grimy streets, where one night she encounters an curious combination of religion, mysticism and suffragette movements and murder. Russell and Holmes launch a quiet investigation, but soon Russell finds herself closer to heaven than she would like ...