{"product_id":"9780804177962","title":"Island of the Mad: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Russell and Sherlock Holmes untangle the slippery threads of insanity and deadly secrets as they investigate a disappearance in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling series that Lee Child called \"the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA June summer's evening, on the Sussex Downs, in 1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are strolling across their orchard when the telephone rings: an old friend's beloved aunt has failed to return following a supervised outing from Bedlam. After the previous few weeks—with a bloody murder, a terrible loss, and startling revelations about Holmes—Russell is feeling a bit unbalanced herself. The last thing she wants is to deal with the mad, and yet, she can't say no.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Lady Vivian Beaconsfield has spent most of her adult life in one asylum after another, yet she seemed to be improving—or at least, finding a point of balance in her madness. So why did she disappear? Did she take the family's jewels with her, or did someone else? The Bedlam nurse, perhaps? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trail leads Russell and Holmes through a lunatic asylum's stony halls to the warm Venice lagoon, where ethereal beauty is jarred by Mussolini's Blackshirts, where the gilded Lido set may be tempting a madwoman, and where Cole Porter sits at a piano, playing with ideas...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016252145904,"sku":"9780804177962","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780804177962_p0.jpg?v=1763729510","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780804177962","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}