Laurie R. King takes readers way back in her bestselling series with this exclusive ebook short story, as Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes embark upon the riskiest adventure of their partnership: their wedding.
Read MoreQuite a bit of “The Marriage of Mary Russell”— —takes place on the South Downs, particularly that portion of it to which Sherlock Holmes retired after the death of Queen Victoria, a few miles from where Mary Russell stumbles across him in The Beekeeper’s Apprentice. Holmes’ earlier biographer, Arthur Conan Doyle, had little interest in…
Read More“Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes embark upon the riskiest adventure of their partnership: their wedding night.” When the cover blurb for this new short story first emerged from Random House, the copy writer had given the description a rather… different flavor from what its author had intended: creatively (perhaps wistfully?) the writer of the cover copy…
Read MoreWrites of Passage is a collection of essays on writing from Sisters in Crime authors. My piece, on finding a community (yes, that’s you guys,) brought up the end position. The publishers have asked us to write blog posts for them, and today is my turn. The topic is beginnings, and part of what I talk about…
Read More“The Marriage of Mary Russell” started, as many of my more interesting projects seem to, with a conversation with my editor. Was there by any chance, she asked, a short story I’d like to write? One that Random House could use as an e-short, during the build-up to The Murder of Mary Russell, to tease new…
Read MoreJust got the UK cover for The Murder of Mary Russell, out from Allison & Busby on the same date as in the US, April 5. What do you think? (And no, this is not meant to show the Holmes flint house on the Downs, but a gamekeeper’s cottage from the story.)
Read MoreI got a fab present in the mail the other day: I’m on the map! The artist said it was hard to choose one of the Russell stories, but in the end he was so taken by the secret exit from Mycroft’s flat, that he worked The Language of Bees into it–see it just above…
Read MoreThese NASA/JPL posters are just the coolest thing ever. They make me want to make over my guest room into a space center. Or maybe my own bedroom. Ah, the romance of space travel. I’ll bet the artists read Have Space Suit, Will Travel when they were kids. They’re free for the printing and using, here.…
Read MoreThe list of nominees for this year’s Agatha awards is now up on the Malice Domestic web site. Malice, which takes place in Bethesda the first weekend in May, celebrates “the traditional mystery,” and Dreaming Spies is one of the attendees’ top choices for “Best Historical Mystery.” This is a great honor–I mean, just look…
Read MoreA new short story is born! Yes, yes, a short story isn’t a novel, but it’s a bright and amusing bit of new life that wasn’t here last month, and now is, so: yay, me! (Although “here” is a relative term. It’s here for me. You’ll have to wait until March. Sorry.) Here’s how Random…
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