 Books and Reviews
[Touchstone]
[The Art of Detection]
[Kate Martinelli Novels]
[Mary Russell Novels]
[Non-series Novels]
[Short Stories and Collaborations]
[Non-Fiction and Introductions]
[Foreign Editions]
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Touchstone
(2007) ISBN 978-0-553-80355-6
(May 2008, UK) ISBN 978-1-84722-005-9Here, among a titled family whose servants dress in whimsical costumes and whose daughter conducts an open affair with a man who wants to bring down the government, Stuyvesant finds himself dangerously seduced by one woman and—even more dangerously—falling in love with another. And as he sifts through secrets divulged and kept, he uncovers the target of a horrifying conspiracy, and wonders if he can trust his touchstone, Grey, to reveal the most dangerous player of all...
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The Art of Detection
(2006) ISBN 978-0-553-58833-0
Kate Martinelli has seen her share of weird things as a San Francisco cop, but never anything quite like this: an ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Sherlock Holmes story—complete with violin, tobacco-filled Persian slipper, and gun shots in the wallpaper that spell out the initials of the late queen.
Philip Gilbert was a true Holmes fanatic, from his antiquated décor to his vintage wardrobe. And no mere fan of fiction’s greatest detective, but a leading expert with a collection of priceless memorabilia—a collection some would kill for.
And perhaps someone did: In his collection is a century-old manuscript purportedly written by Holmes himself—that eerily echoes details of Gilbert’s own murder.
Now, with the help of her partner, Al Hawkin, Kate must do her best to follow the convoluted mind of a killer, one who may have trained at the feet of the greatest mind of all times.
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Kate Martinelli Novels
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 Night Work
(2000) ISBN 978-0-553-57825-6
Feminism in San Francisco is like nowhere else. Here we begin with applying tasers and tattoos to abusers, and then we bring in Kali to clean up?
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 With Child
(1996) ISBN 978-0-553-57458-6 | UK (June 08) 978-1-84722-006-6
(Edgar Award nominee; Orange Award nominee)
Kate’s SFPD partner is getting married, and Kate agrees to take his new step-daughter during the honeymoon. Only the girl, already caught up in a missing persons case, goes missing herself.
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  To Play the Fool
(1995) ISBN 978-0-553-57455-5 | UK (Nov 07) 978-0-553-57455-5
A holy fool, in San Francisco? What is this remnant of another world doing among the homeless, and why does he converse only in quotations?
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 A Grave Talent
(1993) ISBN 978-0553573992
(Edgar Award winner; Creasey winner)
New SFPD homicide inspector Kate Martinelli faces a hard case with layers of secrets. But then, Kate is a woman who understands secrets. First in the series.
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Mary Russell Novels
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Locked Rooms
(2005) ISBN 978-0-553-58341-0
(A Booksense Pick)
Setting sail from their adventures in India during the spring of 1924, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes turn their faces toward San Francisco. Russell knows that the time has come to close up the house and business interests she inherited on the death of her family, ten years before. Little does she anticipate the complexity of events her past is built upon, the layers of trust and betrayal that are locked inside her memory. Only Holmes suspects what lies therein--and even he is not prepared for the danger that unfolds.
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The Game
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The Game
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The Game
(2004) ISBN 978-0-553-58338-0
This New York Times bestseller, features the world's greatest detective -- and her husband. Yes, Mary Russell and her partner, Sherlock Holmes, are setting off for the wilds of India, jousting with maharajas and British spymasters alike as they search for a missing figure from an earlier age of colonial spycraft.
In the early days of 1924 Russell and Holmes are given an urgent task by his brother Mycroft: Find a British spy gone missing along India’s northwest frontier, where men are dying and trouble is brewing. The spy’s name? It is one Holmes knows from his sojourn in India long ago; one Russell knows from a book. It is Kimball O’Hara, known to the world by the name Rudyard Kipling called him, Kim.
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 Justice Hall
(2002) ISBN 978-0-553-58111-9
(A Booksense Choice)
Two old friends reappear, in decidedly different guise: the two “Bedouin” guides from O Jerusalem are in England, caught in a mesh of honor and justice and the death of a young nephew.
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 O Jerusalem
(1999) ISBN 978-0-553-58105-8
Mycroft Holmes has a little job that needs doing, in 1919 Palestine, where an unfinished war is about to blow up and Russell finds that life as a Bedouin is not all strong coffee and candied almonds.
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 The Moor
(1998) ISBN 978-0-312-42739-9
A hound stalks Dartmoor by night, and Holmes calls Russell to the side of an old man from his past, Sabine Baring-Gould, the squire of Lew Trenchard.
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 A Letter of Mary
(1997) ISBN 978-0-312-42738-2
A first-century manuscript that would turn Christianity on its ear; the death of a friend; and Mary Russell as the private secretary of a misogynist colonel.
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 A Monstrous Regiment of Women
(1995) ISBN 978-0-312-42737-5
(Nero Award Winner)
Russell, just twenty-one, meets a charismatic feminist mystic in London and faces a choice about the future.
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 The Beekeeper's Apprentice
(1994) ISBN 978-0-312-42736-8
(Agatha nominee; ALA notable book; 100 favorite books of the IMBA)
The book that begins the adventure: In 1915, young Mary Russell meets Sherlock Holmes on the Sussex Downs, and becomes his apprentice-in-crime.
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Non-series Novels
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 Califia's Daughters
(2004) by Leigh Richards (Pseudonym for Laurie R. King)
ISBN 978-0-553-58667-1
Laurie's first non-mystery, a paperback original novel of the near future.
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 Keeping Watch
(2003) ISBN 978-0-553-38252-5
(Nominated for the Barry Award)
The "ghost" of Folly island, Allen Carmichael, is a man with a few ghosts of his own, which accompany him as he performs his rescues of abused children and their mothers. Only his ghosts don’t tell him when one day he meets a child who may not be the innocent victim he appears.
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 Folly
(2001) ISBN 978-0-553-38151-1
(Macavity Award Winner, A Booksense Choice)
The book that nearly emptied Random House, New York, as half the staff came perilously near to deciding that if Rae Newborn could go to an island and rebuild an old house, why couldn’t they? After all, they didn’t begin with her problems, did they?
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 A Darker Place
(1999) ISBN 978-0-553-57824-9
Published in the UK as The Birth of a New Moon
Professor Anne Waverley’s sabbaticals from her university are a bit different: They take her into potentially disastrous religious movements, and into potentially devastating relationships.
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Short Stories and Collaborations
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 "Cat's Paw" in Murder at the Foul Line, ed. Otto Penzler (2006) |
 "The Salt Pond" is in Wild Crimes, edited by Dana Stabenow. (2004). |
 "Weaving the Dark" from Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon. This is McSweeney's Magazine number 10, also published (without the fun extras) by Vintage. The magazine is loosely linked to Dave Eggar's Valencia Street writing center.
(2004)
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 "Paleta Man" which is in Irreconcilable Differences, edited by Lia Matera
(1999)
(Edgar Award nominee) |
 "Mrs Hudson's Case" in Crime Through Time, eds Monfredo and Newman
(1997)
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 Naked came the Phoenix: chapter 13
(2001)
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Non-Fiction and Introductions
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 Intro to The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (Modern Library Classics, Random House, 2002)
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 "The Past is a Foreign Country", Writing Mysteries, (ed. Sue Grafton / Jan Burke)
(2002)
Laurie has written a chapter on the historical mystery in this group of Mystery Writers of America's ideas and comments on writing mysteries. |
 Intro to Criminal Kabbalah, edited by Lawrence Raphael.
(2002)
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Foreign Editions
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 Laurie's books are available in nineteen languages around the world. For a complete list click here. |
