The Murder of Mary Russell

April 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?

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Marriage of Mary Russell

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.

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New Video

Team LRK has a new video for you, based on a piece of prose you may recognize: “I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes…”

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It’s Library Week!

I invite you and your friends to nominate any US middle school library to win a carton (28) of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice. Go to my web site before Friday, April 17 to nominate your favorite library, and while you’re there, take a look at the Common Core unit. The nomination form is here. The Common Core unit is here.

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Mila’s Tale

“Mila’s Tale” is midrash—the retelling of a Biblical passage.  Half of it is a previously unpublished Laurie R. King short story; the other half is the author’s commentary on the text (“Jephthah’s Daughter” of Judges 11) with some suggestions for further reading.  This is the first in Laurie’s proposed Ladies of Spirit project, a collection of Modern Midrashes…

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Russell in the UK

All the Russells are now in the UK! Laurie’s British publisher, the fabulous Allison & Busby, has finally completed the list of Mary Russell novels in beautiful new paperback covers.

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Hellbender

Mike Heller, a PI with some….extra skills, whose client is a blonde too gorgeous to be believed.  She wants him to find her missing brother. He finds a whole lot more than that. LRK does urban fantasy.  This appeared in the anthology Down These Strange Streets a few years ago, but now it stands on its own,…

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A Conversation

It’s Paris, 1929. Hemingway, Dali, Man Ray, and the ever-thirsty Kiki of Montparnasse sit around a table on the Dome Cafe terrace, discussing a project for the enigmatic and vastly wealthy Comte de Charmentier. The Count wants a Danse Macabre for his walls, showing Death’s dance with all of humanity: kings and jazz musicians, Flappers…

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(P)interesting Bones

The Bones of Paris finds one-time Bureau of Investigation agent Harris Stuyvesant plunging into the tempestuous 1929 Montparnasse community of American writers, artists, and hangers-on. Paris in the Twenties is a visual feast, from the street scenes to the artists’ ateliers. That’s why I’ve begun a pair of Pinterest pages where I can pour all…

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Higher Mysteries

On May 14, I will sit down with Zoe Ferraris, Sharan Newman, and Julia Spencer-Fleming to talk about Higher Mysteries. You do not want to miss this. It’s the 2013 King Lecture in Santa Cruz, at 7:00 in the main library at 224 Church Street. 

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