Posts by Laurie King
A Case of Correspondence: Part 3
A series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
Read MoreThird Thursday
I’m in the air today, and hoping that the ground isn’t absolute ice when I come down in New York. Think warm thoughts for me, please…
Read MoreTwenty Weeks of Russell: Week 3
The third exciting episode of “A Case in Correspondence” is posted over at Mary Russell’s blog–AND, the formerly hidden fronts of the postcards have appeared in the Mutterings posts for the previous two Fridays (here and then here)! Watch here for this week’s card as it came to me, in Russell’s own hand. I’m heading…
Read MoreTo Play the Fool
One part of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz is a retrospective of the LRK oeuvre—a fancy way of saying that I’ll be looking at each of my twenty books, a week at a time. Next we have To Play the Fool, the second Kate Martinelli novel, published in 1995. “This fellow is wise enough to…
Read MoreWeek Three of Twenty: a Sherlock Holmes contest!
For various reasons too complicated to go into here, the date ascribed to Sherlock Holmes for a birthday is Jan 6, or Epiphany. Every year on a weekend close to that date the Baker Street Irregulars travel to New York (and London—and since some wish to participate in both, the NY and London weekends trade…
Read MoreA Case of Correspondence: Part 2
A series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
Read MoreFour women, one amazing conversation
Next month, on February 16, four women will sit down in an Arizona ballroom and talk books. Of course, women talking books is hardly unusual, but in this case the women might be saying things that others would like to listen in on. Barbara Peters is in charge. Barbara’s the queen bee of Poisoned Pen…
Read MoreTwenty Weeks of Russell
What’s this I see? Mary Russell has a new post over on her MySpace page? Episodes of “A Case in Correspondence” will appear there Wednesdays, and here Fridays, throughout our Twenty Weeks of Buzz. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, up to now?
Read MoreThe Beekeeper’s Apprentice, With Some Notes Upon the Segregation of the Queen
One part of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz is a retrospective of the LRK oeuvre—a fancy way of saying that I’ll be looking at each of my twenty books, a week at a time. Week two: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes novel, published 1994; one of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Associations’ 100…
Read MoreWeek 2, Twenty Weeks of Buzz
This is week 2 of the Word is, people look at blogs for a number of reasons. Pure entertainment, perhaps, or simple information is another, or even that ineffable search for human contact among the electrons, a desire for community and like minds. The idea behind this year’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz is to bring…
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