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Listen to LRK talk about the genesis and writing of Touchstone.


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LRK Virtual Tour

LRK's Touchstone tour is over, but you can still enjoy her virtual tour stops!

SC reports on LRK's visit to Bookshop Santa Cruz--with pictures!

Listen to an extended LRK interview on KUSP radio. Lots on

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Official VBC announcements and updates.
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Come in, pull up a chair and introduce yourself to the VBC!
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A place for feedback, help and questions for LRK.
by vicki
01-04-2009 07:44 PM Go to last post
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Discuss the seventh entry in the Mary Russell series with LRK and her readers.
by vicki
Today 11:14 AM Go to last post
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A place to plan VBC meet-ups. (Please use caution and common sense)
by vicki
01-04-2009 10:26 PM Go to last post
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A place to discuss LRK's work.
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A room for discussions that don't fit elsewhere.
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A place to post images you want to share with the VBC
by KarenB
Today 12:16 PM Go to last post
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Got books to trade or lend out? Looking for a book? Here's the place! (Note: only send expendable items--exchanging parties bear the risks of non-delivery).
by alina
12-29-2008 09:36 PM Go to last post
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Join us in discussion Rudyard Kipling's classic tale, which served as inspiration for LRK's seventh Mary Russell novel, The Game.
by LindaE
01-01-2009 06:14 PM Go to last post
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Discuss LRK's third standalone novel with LRK and her readers.
12-01-2008 06:00 AM Go to last post
2 56
Join us in discussing Tim O'Brien's prize-winning story collection about a platoon of American soldiers during the Vietnam War.
by Bachi
10-31-2008 07:23 PM Go to last post
1 35
Discuss LRK's second standalone novel with LRK and her readers.
10-01-2008 06:49 AM Go to last post
2 49
Join us in discussing Kay Redfield Jamison's acclaimed memoir of her experience with manic depressive disorder.
by vicki
11-17-2008 01:53 AM Go to last post
2 44
Discuss the sixth entry in the Mary Russell series with LRK and her readers. The VBC's previous spotlight discussions are set forth below.
11-13-2008 02:53 PM Go to last post
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Discuss the third entry in the Kate Martinelli series with LRK and her readers.
by Kerry
06-28-2008 12:53 PM Go to last post
1 46
Discuss the fifth entry in the Mary Russell series with LRK and her readers.
by LindaE
09-06-2008 07:45 PM Go to last post
1 176
Discuss the fourth entry in the Mary Russell series with LRK and her readers.
by Yvette
05-24-2008 10:52 PM Go to last post
1 145
Discuss LRK's fourth standalone mystery with LRK and her readers.
by elle
07-31-2008 09:20 PM Go to last post
1 85
Find out more about a favorite LRK backdrop: England between the world wars.
03-11-2008 10:37 PM Go to last post
1 55
Discuss LRK's dystopian novel, published under the pseudonym Leigh Richards.
by LindaE
07-08-2008 06:16 PM Go to last post
2 93
Discuss the book that spurred LRK to write Califia's Daughters.
by Marisa
12-30-2008 03:27 AM Go to last post
1 80
Discuss the third entry in the Mary Russell series with LRK and her readers.
by Bachi
05-17-2008 03:12 AM Go to last post
2 115
Discuss LRK's first published standalone novel with LRK and her readers.
04-07-2008 05:23 PM Go to last post
2 63
Discuss the second entry in the Kate Martinelli series with LRK and her readers.
by vicki
08-19-2008 07:28 PM Go to last post
2 52
Discuss the second entry in the Mary Russell series with LRK and her readers.
10-14-2008 11:34 PM Go to last post
3 108
Discuss the first entry in the Mary Russell series with LRK and her readers.
by LindaE
01-01-2009 06:19 PM Go to last post
2 189
Discuss the first book in the Kate Martinelli series with LRK and her readers.
by kasmyra
08-18-2008 03:06 AM Go to last post
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Welcome, friends of Bouchercon 2008 - Charmed to Death! Ask questions, organize meetups, and prepare for one of the most eagerly awaited mystery events of the year.
by KarenB
11-08-2008 08:53 PM Go to last post
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December in the VBC

Join January's discussion of THE GAME, the seventh Mary Russell novel, in which Russell and Holmes go searching for a missing figure from Britain's imperial past--Kimball O'Hara of Rudyard Kipling's KIM, the subject of last month's VBC discussion--still in progress!

VBC Discussion Schedule

JANUARY '09
--The Game by LRK

FEBRUARY '09
--Night Work by LRK

MARCH '09
--The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

APRIL '09
--Locked Rooms by LRK

MAY '09
--The Art of Detection by LRK

JUNE '09
--The Queen Must Die and Other Affairs of Bees and Men by William Longgood

JULY '09
--The Language of Bees by LRK


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