Fiction featuring beekeepers

[thorn]

I took out "White Death" by Tobias Jones from the Crime section of my local library, to find some way into the book that the hero, as a relaxation from sleuthing, kept bees. There must be plenty of books out there, not with beekeeping as the main theme, but as something more than just a passing mention. Any recommendation?

 

[Chris Luck]

The sting.

Chris

 

[coffin dodger]

In the Sherlock Holmes stories, Holmes retired to keep bees.

CD

 

[Hivemaker.]

The X files.

 

[Finman]

I took out "White Death" by Tobias Jones from the Crime section of my local library, to find some way into the book that the hero, as a relaxation from sleuthing, kept bees. There must be plenty of books out there, not with beekeeping as the main theme, but as something more than just a passing mention. Any recommendation?

my neighour, the farmer and beekeeper, told that his father had big skeps.
He kept there poached moose meat. Even if police drived to home yeard, they never looked inside the skeps.

.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Swarm?

 

[Poly Hive]

There is at least a trilogy featuring Sherlocks wife and he muses on his bees in them.

PH

 

[meidel]

there's a sinister take on beekeepers in the 2006 remake of The Wicker Man

 

[youngyoungs]

Secret life of bees - book better than film (IMHO)

 

[Norton Caff]

Agree with youngyoungs, Secret Life of Bees book.

 

[madasafish]

Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare (1995 TV movie)
starring Robert Hays, Nancy Stafford and Ryan Phillippe


Terror Out of the Sky

"This TV sequel to "The Savage Bees" features more rampaging insects. This time a marching band and a school bus get in the path of the bees."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080007/

The Deadly Bees (1967)
starring Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Guy Doleman, Michael Ripper, Michael Gwynn
IMDB synopsis:
Pop singer Vicki Robbins collapses from exhaustion while shooting the 1960s equivalent of a music video, and her physician prescribes a respite on Seagull Island with colleague and bee-keeper, Ralph Hargrove. Vicki finds the Hargroves' bitter marital strife oddly relaxing. But when a mysterious swarm of specially bred attack bees starts killing island residents, Vicki fights for her survival, setting fire to nearly half the structures on the island in her escape.

Film: Giant Killer Bees! (2011)
The plot is irrelevant because there’s barely any; something to do with scientists that all look like male models out to save the world’s bee population trying to rush their results by injecting a few bees with an extraterrestrial additive. Those few bees grow into computer animation so crude you’d think it was recycled from a decade old pest control TV ad. We only see two or three of these bees the entire film and only one at a time for seconds at a time. You’ll see more yellow bee vision POV than you will actual bees, giant or otherwise.

 

[margob99]

The Beekeeper's Pupil is an absolutely brilliant book.