Posts Tagged ‘Kate Martinelli’
A book’s heart
A book is a complex blend of the author’s intentions. Some of them are on the surface: shaping an exciting plot; exploring the lives of the characters; bringing to light a place the writer knows and loves. Other elements of a novel are less obvious. Themes of relationship and responsibility are woven in. Trauma and…
Read MoreThe Art of Detection, real cheap
The Art of Detection is the book that links Inspector Kate Martinelli of the SFPD with the oddity that is the world of Sherlock Holmes. It’s what happens when an editor wistfully reflects aloud that she would love to see what a meeting of Kate and Mary Russell would look like, which causes a wicked…
Read MoreNight Work (2000)
Tuesdays during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz are given over to a look at each of my twenty books, a week at a time, giving some tidbit of information or background about the writing process. I am a San Francisco native, more or less. My mother was born there, and her mother before her; although…
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