Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
Originally published: New York: Bantam Books, 2005.
Review Quotes: "Locked Rooms brims with lively 1920s color and verve, some of it in the warrens of San Francisco's Chinatown.... [a] vividly imagined series."--Seattle Times
"Richly imagined.... King's re-creation of San Francisco, especially the backstory during the devastating 1906 earthquake, is superb, and it's a pleasure to see the unusually competent Russell struggling with her own psyche."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Utterly mesmerizing .... In alternating sections, told in first person for Mary and third for Holmes, the unraveling of long-buried and terrifying memories also unwinds a skein of wonderful historical texture.... A highlight in an altogether outstanding series."
--Booklist (starred review) "A humdinger of a plot ... plus pulsating descriptions of San Francisco's tent cities, looters, and flattened Chinatown in the quake's aftermath."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A truly bravura performance . . . has all the magnetic appeal of the best of the original Conan Doyle novels."
--Strand Magazine
