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Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of ten Mary Russell mysteries, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, and the acclaimed novels A Darker Place, Folly, Keeping Watch, and Touchstone. She lives in Northern California where she is currently at work on her next novel.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $9.00
The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart attack on the grounds of the family’s estate, the locals are... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $9.00
The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart attack on the grounds of the family’s estate, the locals are... Read more >
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Locked Rooms
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $6.99
Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. King’s highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling mystery series. And this time the first couple of detection pair up to unlock the buried memory of a shocking crime with the power to kill again–lost somewhere in Russell’s own past.
After... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $6.99
Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. King’s highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling mystery series. And this time the first couple of detection pair up to unlock the buried memory of a shocking crime with the power to kill again–lost somewhere in Russell’s own past.
After... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Justice Hall
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $15.00
Only hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving one riddle on the moor, another knocks on their front door…literally.
It’s a mystery that begins during the Great War, when Gabriel Hughenfort died amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever since. But it’s not until Holmes and Russell arrive at... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $15.00
Only hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving one riddle on the moor, another knocks on their front door…literally.
It’s a mystery that begins during the Great War, when Gabriel Hughenfort died amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever since. But it’s not until Holmes and Russell arrive at... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Touchstone
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $12.00
New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King takes us to a remote cottage in Cornwall in this gripping tale of intrigue, terrorism, and explosive passions that begins with a visit to a recluse code-named . . .
Once studied by British intelligence for his excruciating sensitivity to the world’s turmoil... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $12.00
New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King takes us to a remote cottage in Cornwall in this gripping tale of intrigue, terrorism, and explosive passions that begins with a visit to a recluse code-named . . .
Once studied by British intelligence for his excruciating sensitivity to the world’s turmoil... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Game
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $6.99
Laurie R. King’s bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a rich and atmospheric tale that takes them to India to save... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $6.99
Laurie R. King’s bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a rich and atmospheric tale that takes them to India to save... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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O Jerusalem
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $15.00
At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England, Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen-year-old apprentice Mary Russell enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes’s enigmatic brother, Mycroft. Their arrival coincides with a rash of unsolved murders that has baffled the authorities and seems unrelated to the growing tensions... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $15.00
At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England, Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen-year-old apprentice Mary Russell enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes’s enigmatic brother, Mycroft. Their arrival coincides with a rash of unsolved murders that has baffled the authorities and seems unrelated to the growing tensions... Read more >
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The Art of Detection
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $6.99
In this thrilling new crime novel that ingeniously bridges Laurie R. King’s Edgar and Creasey Awards—winning Kate Martinelli series and her bestselling series starring Mary Russell, San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes–in a spellbinding dual mystery that could come only from the “intelligent, witty, and complex”... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $6.99
In this thrilling new crime novel that ingeniously bridges Laurie R. King’s Edgar and Creasey Awards—winning Kate Martinelli series and her bestselling series starring Mary Russell, San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes–in a spellbinding dual mystery that could come only from the “intelligent, witty, and complex”... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Grave Talent
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1995
Price: $7.99
This gripping debut of the Kate Martinelli mystery series won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery, generating wide critical acclaim and moving Laurie R. King into the upper tier of the genre. As A Grave Talent begins, the unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco. A... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1995
Price: $7.99
This gripping debut of the Kate Martinelli mystery series won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery, generating wide critical acclaim and moving Laurie R. King into the upper tier of the genre. As A Grave Talent begins, the unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco. A... Read more >
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The Language of Bees
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $25.00
In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husband’s storied past—a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to sting…this time fatally.
For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $25.00
In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husband’s storied past—a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to sting…this time fatally.
For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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To Play the Fool
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1996
Price: $7.99
Celebrated author Laurie R. King dazzles mystery lovers once again in this, her second Kate Martinelli mystery. The story unfolds as a band of homeless people cremate a beloved dog in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. When it comes to incidents like this, the authorities are willing to overlook a few... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1996
Price: $7.99
Celebrated author Laurie R. King dazzles mystery lovers once again in this, her second Kate Martinelli mystery. The story unfolds as a band of homeless people cremate a beloved dog in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. When it comes to incidents like this, the authorities are willing to overlook a few... Read more >
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A Darker Place
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1999
Price: $7.99
Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good and evil, unlike any she has written before...
A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few: Years ago, her own... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1999
Price: $7.99
Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good and evil, unlike any she has written before...
A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few: Years ago, her own... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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With Child
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 31, 1997
Price: $7.99
Adrift in mist-shrouded San Francisco mornings and alcohol-fogged nights, homicide detective Kate Martinelli can't escape the void left by her departed lover, who has gone off to rethink their relationship. But when twelve-year-old Jules Cameron comes to Kate for a professional consultation, Kate's not sure she's that desperate for distraction.
Jules is worried... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 31, 1997
Price: $7.99
Adrift in mist-shrouded San Francisco mornings and alcohol-fogged nights, homicide detective Kate Martinelli can't escape the void left by her departed lover, who has gone off to rethink their relationship. But when twelve-year-old Jules Cameron comes to Kate for a professional consultation, Kate's not sure she's that desperate for distraction.
Jules is worried... Read more >
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O Jerusalem
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2000
Price: $6.99
With her bestselling mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell, Laurie R. King has created "lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company," according to The New York Times Book Review. Now the author of The Beekeeper's Apprentice and The Moor--the first writer since Patricia Cornwell to win both... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2000
Price: $6.99
With her bestselling mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell, Laurie R. King has created "lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company," according to The New York Times Book Review. Now the author of The Beekeeper's Apprentice and The Moor--the first writer since Patricia Cornwell to win both... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Keeping Watch
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $15.00
Acclaimed as one of the most original talents to emerge in the last decade, award-winning author Laurie R. King returns to Folly Island to deliver her most stunning achievement yet--a breathtaking novel of suspense that explores the very essence of good and evil.
Allen Carmichael came back from Vietnam a lifetime ago--but... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $15.00
Acclaimed as one of the most original talents to emerge in the last decade, award-winning author Laurie R. King returns to Folly Island to deliver her most stunning achievement yet--a breathtaking novel of suspense that explores the very essence of good and evil.
Allen Carmichael came back from Vietnam a lifetime ago--but... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Night Work
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2000
Price: $6.99
Night Work
Kate and her partner, Al Hawkin, are called to a scene of carefully executed murder: the victim is a muscular man, handcuffed and strangled, a stun gun's faint burn on his chest and candy in his pocket. The likeliest person to want him dead, his often-abused wife, is meek and... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2000
Price: $6.99
Night Work
Kate and her partner, Al Hawkin, are called to a scene of carefully executed murder: the victim is a muscular man, handcuffed and strangled, a stun gun's faint burn on his chest and candy in his pocket. The likeliest person to want him dead, his often-abused wife, is meek and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Folly
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2002
Price: $15.00
An acclaimed master of suspense creates a heroine you will never forget in this superbly chilling novel of a woman who begins a desperate undertaking that may transform her life--or end it.
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOUR WORST FEARS AREN’T ALL IN YOUR MIND?
Rae Newborn is a woman on the edge: on the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2002
Price: $15.00
An acclaimed master of suspense creates a heroine you will never forget in this superbly chilling novel of a woman who begins a desperate undertaking that may transform her life--or end it.
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOUR WORST FEARS AREN’T ALL IN YOUR MIND?
Rae Newborn is a woman on the edge: on the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Letter of Mary
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 5, 1998
Price: $6.99
Late in the summer of 1923, Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the illustrious Sherlock Holmes, are ensconced in their home on the Sussex Downs, giving themselves over to their studies: Russell to her theology, and Holmes to his malodorous chemical experiments. Interrupting the idyllic scene, amateur archaeologist Miss Dorothy Ruskin... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 5, 1998
Price: $6.99
Late in the summer of 1923, Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the illustrious Sherlock Holmes, are ensconced in their home on the Sussex Downs, giving themselves over to their studies: Russell to her theology, and Holmes to his malodorous chemical experiments. Interrupting the idyllic scene, amateur archaeologist Miss Dorothy Ruskin... Read more >
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A Monstrous Regiment of Women
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1996
Price: $6.99
The dawn of 1921 finds Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes’s brilliant young apprentice, about to come into a considerable inheritance. Nevertheless, she still enjoys her nighttime prowls in disguise through London’s grimy streets, where one night she encounters an old friend, now a charity worker among the poor. Veronica
Beaconsfield introduces Russell... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1996
Price: $6.99
The dawn of 1921 finds Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes’s brilliant young apprentice, about to come into a considerable inheritance. Nevertheless, she still enjoys her nighttime prowls in disguise through London’s grimy streets, where one night she encounters an old friend, now a charity worker among the poor. Veronica
Beaconsfield introduces Russell... Read more >
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The God of the Hive
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $25.00
In Laurie R. King’s latest Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mystery, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller of ingenious surprises and unrelenting suspense—as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
It began as a problem in one of Holmes’ beloved... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $25.00
In Laurie R. King’s latest Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mystery, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller of ingenious surprises and unrelenting suspense—as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
It began as a problem in one of Holmes’ beloved... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Art of Detection
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $6.99
In this thrilling new crime novel that ingeniously bridges Laurie R. King’s Edgar and Creasey Awards—winning Kate Martinelli series and her bestselling series starring Mary Russell, San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes–in a spellbinding dual mystery that could come only from the “intelligent, witty, and complex”... Read more >
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $6.99
In this thrilling new crime novel that ingeniously bridges Laurie R. King’s Edgar and Creasey Awards—winning Kate Martinelli series and her bestselling series starring Mary Russell, San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes–in a spellbinding dual mystery that could come only from the “intelligent, witty, and complex”... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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A Darker Place
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $7.99
Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good and evil, unlike any she has written before...
A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few: Years ago, her own... Read more >
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $7.99
Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good and evil, unlike any she has written before...
A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few: Years ago, her own... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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Folly
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $15.00
An acclaimed master of suspense creates a heroine you will never forget in this superbly chilling novel of a woman who begins a desperate undertaking that may transform her life -- or end it.
What happens if your worst fears aren't all in your mind?
Rae Newborn is a woman on the edge... Read more >
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $15.00
An acclaimed master of suspense creates a heroine you will never forget in this superbly chilling novel of a woman who begins a desperate undertaking that may transform her life -- or end it.
What happens if your worst fears aren't all in your mind?
Rae Newborn is a woman on the edge... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Game
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $15.00
It’s only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year’s visit from Holmes’s brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball O’Hara—the same Kimball known to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $15.00
It’s only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year’s visit from Holmes’s brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball O’Hara—the same Kimball known to... Read more >
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The Game
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 2, 2004
Price: $6.99
Laurie R. King’s bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a rich and atmospheric tale that takes them to India to save... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 2, 2004
Price: $6.99
Laurie R. King’s bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a rich and atmospheric tale that takes them to India to save... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
The God of the Hive
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $25.00
In Laurie R. King’s latest Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mystery, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller of ingenious surprises and unrelenting suspense—as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
It began as a problem in one of Holmes’ beloved... Read more >
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $25.00
In Laurie R. King’s latest Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mystery, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller of ingenious surprises and unrelenting suspense—as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
It began as a problem in one of Holmes’ beloved... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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