Posts by Laurie King
Mary Russell’s War Journal (thirty-two):old sweaters and Paris veils
9 March 1915 This month’s instalment of The Valley of Fear reached me two days ago, although I have to admit, it has not done much to clarify the mystery around the story’s murder. I could see from the very first that any victim whose head was all but obliterated by a shot-gun is…
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In celebration and thanks for today’s NYT and Indie bestseller lists—where you put Dreaming Spies—my publishers have given me permission to make a little…announcement. It concerns the name of the next novel in the Russell & Holmes universe. Want to know it? You sure? Even though you’re not going to see the book, or even…
Read MoreMary Russell’s War (thirty-one): the moated house
2 March 1915 Today is the second day of March, and there has been no sign of the month’s Strand. February’s issue did not come until the third of the month, and the post seems only to be getting slower. Perhaps the magazine should forswear the serialisation of its pieces for the duration of…
Read MoreThe List
Thanks to you good people who rushed out in Week One and plunked down your hard-earned dollars for Dreaming Spies, the book will appear in the number eight slot on the New York Times bestseller list, and #10 on the Indie Bookstore bestseller list. This makes me very happy, not in the least because it…
Read MoreMary Russell’s War (thirty): to the service of the King
23 February 1915 Each day, the young son of the village postmistress comes cycling up the lane to bring us, among the various requests from cook and aunt, my day’s copy of The Times. My aunt seems to think this inappropriate reading material, given my sex and age, but it is the newspaper my…
Read MoreLost grey matter
Since the airlines (one of three) seem to have misplaced Laurie’s brain somewhere between Houston and Los Angeles (or perhaps in Phoenix), Mary Russell’s War will return as soon as the lost brain has been located and delivered to her door. In the meantime, here’s a picture of yesterday’s fab event put together by the Mission…
Read MoreTour, and toilets!
I hope you’ve managed to get your hands (and your eyes) on a copy of Dreaming Spies? If not, I’ll be all over in the next couple of weeks, and I’m happy to sign one for you. All my events are listed here. Oh, and I should mention that there are still places left at the…
Read MoreMary Russell’s War (twenty-nine): a young lieutenant
16 February 1915 February is not a time of year where one may easily wander the Downlands with a Latin text in hand. If the pages are not blown asunder, they are rendered into sodden masses of the original pulp, and in either event, are difficult to manipulate by half-frozen fingers. So—needs must—I have…
Read MoreWe’re all winners today, however…
Dreaming Spies! —is out in the world today—huzzah! But before you all hunker down with your shiny new hardbacks (sooo pretty….) or your crisp new downloads, let’s celebrate today’s book launch that makes winners out of all of Mary Russell’s admirers by noting the winners of our…
Read MoreA Japanese inn
(Mary Russell’s War will show up on Wednesday this week.) From Dreaming Spies: As the shops thinned and gardens peeped between the houses, we neared what could only be a ryokan. Ancient wood, well-maintained thatch, raked gravel, and a small and perfectly spontaneous garden on either side of the entrance. Everything—thatch, gate, stones, tree bark—…
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