THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE

'''The Beekeeper's Apprentice''' is the first book in the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King.
In this novel, King presents the first meeting between fifteen-year-old Mary Russell, the young Jewish-American protagonist of King's series by that name, and Sherlock Holmes. Their meeting leads to a collaboration between the two, though this first novel focuses primarily on the detective training that Holmes gives to Russell. The series that this novel begins currently stands at eight novels.