LAURIE R. KING

'Laurie R. King' (born 1952) is an American author best known for her detective fiction. Among her books are the Mary Russell series of historical mysteries, featuring Sherlock Holmes as her partner, and a series featuring Kate Martinelli, a fictional San Francisco, California, police officer.
King's first book, ''A Grave Talent'' (1993), received the 1994 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a 1995 John Creasey Memorial Award. This was followed by the 1996 Nero Wolfe Award, for ''A Monstrous Regiment of Women'', and the 2002 Macavity Award for Best Novel, for ''Folly''. She has also been nominated for an Agatha Award, an Orange Prize, and two more Edgars.
She has earned a BA degree in comparative religion and an MA in Old Testament Theology. She also received an honorary doctorate from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

Contents

Works

Kate Martinelli mysteries

Non-series books

Further reading

External links

Works

Kate Martinelli mysteries

★ ''A Grave Talent'' (1993) ISBN 0-312-08804-3

★ ''To Play the Fool'' (1995) ISBN 0-312-11907-0

★ ''With Child'' (1996) ISBN 0-312-14077-0

★ ''Night Work'' (2000) ISBN 0-553-10713-5

★ ''The Art of Detection'' (2006) ISBN 0-553-80453-7
===Mary Russell mysteries===

★ ''The Beekeeper's Apprentice'' (1994) ISBN 0-312-10423-5

★ ''A Monstrous Regiment of Women'' (1995) ISBN 0-312-13565-3

★ ''A Letter of Mary'' (1997) ISBN 0-312-14670-1

★ ''The Moor'' (1998) ISBN 0-312-16934-5

★ ''O Jerusalem'' (1999) ISBN 0-553-11093-4

★ ''Justice Hall'' (2002) ISBN 0-553-11113-2

★ ''The Game'' (2004) ISBN 0-553-80194-5

★ ''Locked Rooms'' (2005) ISBN 0-553-80197-X

Non-series books

★ ''A Darker Place'' (1999)

★ ''Folly'' (2001)

★ ''Keeping Watch'' (2003)

★ ''Califia's Daughters'' (as Leigh Richards) (2004)

Further reading

Emrys, A. B. "Under Cover of Wartime: Disguised Murder in Works by Rennie Airth, Laurie R. King, Martha Grimes, and Anthony Horowitz." CLUES: A Journal of Detection 25.4 (Summer 2007):
53-63.

External links

★ Official site

★ Ex Libris Archives: Laurie R. King