Three more days…
Read MoreApril 5, 2016 Laurie R. King’s bestselling Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series weaves rich historical detail and provocative themes with intriguing characters and enthralling suspense. Russell and Holmes have become one of modern literature’s most beloved teams. Does this adventure end it all?
Read MoreThinking of visiting London in 1879 (which is, according to The Murder of Mary Russell, the year Sherlock Holmes met Mrs Hudson)? You might want to take along some hand sanitizer (along with water purifier and a huge bottle of antibiotics and…) but other than health matters, you probably should keep an eye out for…
Read More* * The Murder of Mary Russell, which publishes next Tuesday, may be pre-ordered as: A signed US hardback from Bookshop Santa Cruz or Poisoned Pen Books An unsigned hardback or ebook from B&N/Nook or Amazon/Kindle A UK hardback from Waterstones, or hard/ebook from Amazon UK.
Read MoreThe Mrs Hudson we know and love, first in Conan Doyle’s Baker Street and later in Russell’s life, may not be quite the same young woman we meet in The Murder of Mary Russell. (One week from today!) Don’t worry, I don’t intend to say anything about the process of transformation, because that would be…
Read MoreTomorrow is the last day to get me your entries for the obituary/headstone contest, so I have a chance to judge them AND SEND YOU YOUR COPIES OF THE HARDBACK BOOK… …and one of you an iPad mini (sweet!) before I take off on next week’s (!) book tour (whee–check out the cities here.) So if you’re…
Read MoreSo: Sunday is coming. Now, I know you may have a few things during the day to keep you occupied, particularly those of you with small children in the family… but by the evening, you may be looking for other entertainments. Maybe something that doesn’t require you to eat. How about coming to sit down in…
Read MoreJust a reminder that The Game special price ends tomorrow,$1.99 on Kindle and Nook. Enjoy! Still, even after this special is over, the Laurie King YouTube Channel will continue to play the trailer we made for The Game, so you can appreciate Laurie’s reading and the clever work of Team LRK. “He’s real, then? Kipling’s boy?”…
Read MoreMy friends at Two Rock Media, who did the superb book trailers for Pirate King and The Language of Bees, have done a new kind of trailer, a sort of audio play excerpt from the book itself. I love their experiments with how to build a story, and shape one narrative out of another. Who’d have thought…
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