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A Monstrous Regiment of Women is the second in Laurie R. King's excellent IMO Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series. And at least some folks agree with me - per SYKM, Regiment won the 1996 Nero Award. Regiment has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0030MQJ64
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0030MQJ64
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-m...iment-of-women

Spoiler:

Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award

It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Independent at last, with a passion for divinity and detective work, her most baffling mystery may now involve Holmes and the burgeoning of a deeper affection between herself and the retired detective. Russell's attentions turn to the New Temple of God and its leader, Margery Childe, a charismatic suffragette and a mystic, whose draw on the young theology scholar is irresistible. But when four bluestockings from the Temple turn up dead shortly after changing their wills, could sins of a capital nature be afoot? Holmes and Russell investigate, as their partnership takes a surprising turn in A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King.