LuRKing on the Web

By Laurie King / October 11, 2014 /

Like podcasts? Like a bunch of LRK podcasts?  Conversations with Marcia Muller or Ruth Dudley Edwards, a panel on Higher Mysteries, a chat with a Baker Street Babe, and a whole lot more. Podcasts on the LRK site, here.

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Laurie, on the road

By Laurie King / October 9, 2014 /

Happy TBT! Now coming to you from 1977, it’s Laurie, Noel, and A Large Friend, on Easter Island.Hmm, what would you think about a story set on Easter Island…?  

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Mary Russell’s War (ten): Notes from Dr Ginsberg

By Laurie King / October 7, 2014 /

[On two pieces of lined paper, pinned to the pages of Mary Russell’s wartime journal.] October 7, 1914 Late Saturday night I received a telephone call from Mrs Long, housekeeper to my friend Judith Russell, to say that there had been an accident. I could not understand her at first, but clearly it was something…

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Paper BONES

By Laurie King / October 6, 2014 /

The new paperback is out tomorrow, from your local Indie bookseller, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon.  Enjoy!

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LuRKing on the Web

By Laurie King / October 4, 2014 /

Among the corners of the LRK web site, tucked in among the book excerpts and cover art, are some essays concerning the essence of what I do.  Why, for example, do I write crime fiction? So why the mystery? Because it is a strong form that nonetheless allows me to do what I wish with…

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Holmes, the violinist

By Laurie King / October 3, 2014 /

An ad in the Santa Cruz Chamber Players program:

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Laurie, before the volcano

By Laurie King / October 2, 2014 /

This week’s Throwback Thursday takes us to a place that no longer exists.  Spirit Lake was spectacularly beautiful, a church summer camp smack on the top of Mount St. Helens.   Remember Mount St. Helens?  Blew up in 1980, taking a lot of people and this lake with it? It was so beautiful…and the lake was…

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Giveaways!

By Laurie King / October 1, 2014 /

Giveaways! Two of them! The first is a Goodreads giveaway for IN THE COMPANY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, now through October 20: Kirkus says: The range of the 15 new stories here is remarkable. One of the best, Sara Paretsky’s “The Curious Affair of the Italian Art Dealer,” is the most conservative, taking true delight in…

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Mary Russell’s War (nine): Gold braid and child snipers

By Laurie King / September 29, 2014 /

29 September 1914 Catastrophe has struck. It is the end of everything. And I have no one to blame but myself. On Saturday afternoon, at long last, the Parents took Levi and me into their confidence.   Too late. The letter Papa received from the War Office concerned his intention to enlist in the American army.…

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LuRKing on the Web

By Laurie King / September 27, 2014 /

The Laurie R. King web site has dozens of corners and byways that, if you haven’t gone exploring there in a while, you may not have seen. For example: If Watson were a Woman—not by Laurie King, but by guest author Fred Erisman, who explores an assertion made in 1941 by Rex Stout, that Watson was…

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