Laurie R. King

Laurie R. King
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Laurie R. King is the Edgar Award–winning author of the Kate Martinelli novels and the acclaimed Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries, as well as a few stand-alone novels. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first in her Mary Russell series, was nominated for an Agatha Award and was named one of the Century’s Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. A Monstrous Regiment of Women won the Nero Wolfe Award. She has degrees in theology, and besides writing she has also managed a coffee store and raised children, vegetables and the occasional building. She lives in northern California.


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To Play the Fool
To Play the Fool

Laurie R. King
Minotaur Books

Celebrated author Laurie R. King dazzles mystery lovers once again in this, her second Kate Martinelli mystery. The story unfolds as a band of homeless...


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The Moor
The Moor
Mary Russell
Laurie R. King
Picador

In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, Mary Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of...


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A Letter of Mary
A Letter of Mary
Mary Russell
Laurie R. King
Picador

The third book in the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series. It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the...


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A Monstrous Regiment of Women
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
Mary Russell
Laurie R. King
Picador

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...


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The Beekeeper's Apprentice
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Mary Russell
Laurie R. King
Picador

An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association From New...


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Naked Came the Phoenix
Naked Came the Phoenix

Edited by Marcia Talley; by Nevada Barr, J.D. Robb, Nancy Pickard, Lisa Scottoline, Perri O'Shaughnessy, J.A. Jance, Faye Kellerman, Mary Jane Clark, Marcia Talley, Anne Perry, Diana Gabaldon, Val McDermid, Laurie R. King
Minotaur Books

The promise of discretion and pampering-and a long-overdue reconciliation with her mother-draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly-elected...


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With Child
With Child

Laurie R. King
Minotaur Books

Adrift in mist-shrouded San Francisco mornings and alcohol-fogged nights, homicide detective Kate Martinelli can't escape the void left by her departed lover,...


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A Grave Talent
A Grave Talent

Laurie R. King
Minotaur Books


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