Laurie R. King, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-553-10711-1
King, author of the Kate Martinelli crime novels (With Child) and Mary Russell detective series (The Moor), applies her renegade talents to a suspenseful tale in which a woman penetrates the treacherous realm of religious cults in order to save its...
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Laurie R. King. Poisoned Pen, $15.95 trade paper (324p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0733-4
Fans of King’s Mary Russell novels, which starting with 1994’s The Beekeeper’s Apprentice chart her relationship with Sherlock Holmes, will welcome this collection, which includes extracts from the novels, short stories, and the diary that Mary kept
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Laurie R. King. Bantam, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8041-7790-0
Edgar-winner King’s subpar 15th Mary Russell novel (after 2015’s Dreaming Spies) opens on a quiet morning in Sussex in May, 1925. Against her better judgment, Mary, the independent wife of Sherlock Holmes, admits a stranger to her cottage, who says...
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Laurie R. King. Bantam, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-53179-7
Snappy prose and a captivating plot distinguish King’s 14th novel featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes (after 2012’s Garment of Shadows). In April 1924, Russell hopes to enjoy an uneventful boat trip from India to Japan with...
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Laurie R. King. Bantam, $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-345-53176-6
Edgar-winner King delivers a sequel to 2008’s Touchstone with this impressive mystery set in 1929 Paris. In the arresting preface, set in Cornwall, Bennett Grey receives a letter from Harris Stuyvesant, his friend but “a man whose motives Grey had...
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Laurie R. King. Bantam, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-80799-8
Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes In the opening chapter of her new book, Garment of Shadows, Laurie R. King doesn’t identity her first-person narrator—for a very good reason. Her heroine suffers from amnesia and doesn’t know who she is (tho
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Laurie R. King, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-11103-3
Beautiful prose and intriguing characters can't quite save the confusing, and at times needlessly complicated, plot of this challenging psychological thriller, set on a fictional addition to the San Juan Island chain in Washington state, from Edgar-w
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Laurie R. King, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-10713-5
The multitalented King (O Jerusalem, etc.) has not published a Kate Martinelli novel since 1996's With Child, so fans aplenty have been waiting for the next installment in this acclaimed series. San Francisco police detective Kate and her partner,...
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Laurie R. King, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-16934-3
On Dartmoor, a man lies dead beside ""the footprints of a very large dog."" Sound familiar? Yes, Sherlock Holmes is tracking the Hound of the Baskervilles again, some 20 years later with his wife, Mary Russell, whom King has so ably placed beside...
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Laurie R. King, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-14670-2
King set a new paradigm for Holmesian scholarship with her inspired invention of a retired, still energetic Sherlock Holmes who trained young Mary Russell in The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994) and then embraced her as a professional partner and wife (
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Laurie R. King, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14077-9
The third absorbing Kate Martinelli story (after the Edgar-winning A Grave Talent and its follow-up, To Play the Fool) leads the Bay Area cop into the Pacific Northwest, where a serial killer is on the loose. Kate's female lover Lee, severely...
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Laurie R. King, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-312-13565-2
King first teamed Mary Russell with Sherlock Holmes in the riveting The Beekeeper's Apprentice. Then Mary was a vulnerable, bright 15-year-old. Now, in 1920, Mary is a week away from her 21st birthday and has finished her studies at Oxford, and the...
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Laurie R. King, Author St. Martin's Press $21 (260p) ISBN 978-0-312-11907-2
Like the holy fools whose purposes frame her latest modern mystery, King practices her own magic here, conjuring up, after a slowish start, an indelibly affecting narrative from unexpected material. The murder and botched cremation of a homeless man
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Laurie R. King, Author Minotaur Books $19.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-08804-0
Although it gets off to an uncertain start, this first mystery boasts an appealing female detective and a few good shocks delivered close to the end. Three children's bodies are found near a reclusive community of eccentrics not too many miles from...
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Laurie R. King, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-10423-8
Sherlock Holmes takes on a young, female apprentice in this delightful and well-wrought addition to the master detective's casework. In the early years of WW I, 15-year-old American Mary Russell encounters Holmes, retired in Sussex Downs where Conan
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Laurie R. King, Author Bantam $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-57458-6
PW called this Kate Martinelli mystery, set in the Pacific Northwest, ""absorbing [and] compelling."" (May)
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Laurie R. King, Author Crimeline $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-57455-5
The second installment in her series featuring San Francisco police detective Kate Martinelli, King's latest mystery concerns the murder of a homeless man in Golden Gate Park. (June)
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Laurie R. King, Author . Bantam $25 (354p) ISBN 978-0-553-80554-3
Those who enjoyed the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes
starring Robert Downey Jr. may appreciate bestseller King's heavy-on-action, light-on-deduction 10th novel featuring Mary Russell and her much older husband, Conan Doyle's iconic detective....
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Laurie R. King, Author . Bantam $25 (448p) ISBN 978-0-553-80454-6
Readers will learn a lot about bee-keeping in bestseller King's sometimes lively, sometimes plodding ninth Mary Russell novel (after Locked Rooms
), though the focus is on Sherlock Holmes's estranged artist son, Damien Adler, who pays an...
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Laurie R. King, Author . Bantam $24 (548p) ISBN 978-0-553-80355-6
Set shortly before Britain’s disastrous General Strike of 1926, this stand-alone thriller from bestseller King (Keeping Watch
) offers impeccable scholarship and the author’s usual intelligent prose, but a surfeit of period detail and...
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Laurie R. King, Author . Bantam $24 (358p) ISBN 978-0-553-80453-9
Bestseller King (The Game
) meshes her two best-known series—contemporary police procedurals set in San Francisco featuring Kate Martinelli of the SFPD and the period stories of Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes—to create an...
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Laurie R. King, Author . Bantam $24 (402p) ISBN 978-0-553-80197-2
In her last outing, The Game
(2004), Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, traveled to India on a case of geopolitical significance, but in the richly imagined eighth novel in this acclaimed series, set in San Francisco in 1922, Russell...
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Laurie R. King, Author . Bantam $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-553-80194-1
The seventh Mary Russell adventure (after 2002's Justice Hall
) may well be the best King has yet devised for her strong-willed heroine. It's 1924, and Kimball O'Hara, the "Kim" of the famous Rudyard Kipling novel, has...
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Laurie R. King, Author . Bantam $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-553-80191-0
Versatile and prolific, King not only finds time for two successful mystery series but also manages to produce the occasional stand-alone gem. Fans will discover that this gripping tale shares certain locations and characters with Folly
(2001), but
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Laurie R. King, Author, King R., Author . Bantam $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-11113-2
Sherlock Holmes has been much used and even more often abused by the many writers who have adopted and adapted him for their own purposes. What a delight then to find an author able to make profound changes while hewing so closely to the spirit of...
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Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. Bantam, $29.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-8129-8246-6
King (The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and 10 other Mary Russell novels) and Klinger (The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes) have not stuck to the usual suspects for this stellar anthology of 16 new short stories that pay homage to the great detective....
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Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. Poisoned Pen, $29.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1590585498
King (The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and 10 other Mary Russell novels) and Klinger (The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes) have not stuck to the usual suspects for this stellar anthology of 16 new short stories that pay homage to the great detective....
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Laurie R. King, Author, Alyssa Bresnahan, Narrated by, Robert Ian MacKenzie, Narrated by , read by Alyssa Bresnahan and Robert Ian Mackenzie. Recorded Books $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4193-9663-2
Echoing King's narrative, Bresnahan's reading takes the leisurely route, bypassing the thrills and chills of the average mystery-thriller in favor of a more scenic tour. Her voice—soft, mellifluous, eminently reasonable—provides...
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Laurie R. King, Author, Laurie R. King, Preface by Bantam Books $6.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-57456-2
King's second mystery tale of a young woman who's a protege of Sherlock Holmes. (Dec.)
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