Books

	Touchstone Author: Laurie R. King Published: January 5, 2008 by Bantam Books/Poisoned Pen Press UK Series Name: Standalone Category: Historical Main Character: Harris Stuyvesant; Bennett Grey; Aldous Carstairs As the General Strike builds in 1926 Britain, American agent Harris Stuyvesant is chasing an international terrorist. His search takes him from remote Cornwall to the turmoil of London and the drawing rooms of an ancient family, in the company of a human touchstone, Bennett Grey. (For a more complete description, photographs, a bibliography, and an excerpt from the book, see the Books and Reviews page of Laurie King’s web site at http://www.laurierking.com/books_and_reviews.php#tad) Click for more info.

	The Art of Detection Author: Laurie R. King Published: June 25, 2006 by Bantam Books/Poisoned Pen Press UK Series Name: Kate Martinelli Category: Mystery/ police Main Character: Kate Marinelli; Al Hawkin; Lee Cooper Kate Martinelli has seen her share of weird things as a San Francisco cop, but never anything quite like this: an ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Sherlock Holmes story—complete with violin, tobacco-filled Persian slipper, and gun shots in the wallpaper that spell out the initials of the late queen. (Kate Martinelli #5) For a more complete description, photographs, a bibliography, and an excerpt from the book, see the Books and Reviews page of Laurie King’s web site at http://www.laurierking.com/books_and_reviews.php#tad Click for more info.

	Locked Rooms Author: Laurie R. King Published: June 25, 2005 by Bantam Books Series Name: Mary Russell Category: Historical Main Character: Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes Mary Russell knows that the time has come to close up the San Francisco house and business interests she inherited on the death of her family. Little does she anticipate the complexity of events her past is built upon, the layers of trust and betrayal that are locked inside her memory. Only Holmes suspects what lies therein--and even he is not prepared for the danger that unfolds. (Mary Russell #8. Click for more info.

	Califia's Daughters Author: Laurie R. King (writing as Leigh Richards) Published: August 1, 2004 by Bantam Books Series Name: Standalone sci-fi Category: Science fiction A novel of the near future, when a community of women is forced to confront the outside world. (For a more complete description, photographs, a bibliography, and an excerpt from the book, see the Books and Reviews page of Laurie King’s web site at http://www.laurierking.com/books_and_reviews.php#tad) Click for more info.

	The Game Author: Laurie R. King Published: June 25, 2004 by Bantam Books Series Name: Mary Russell Category: Historical Main Character: Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes In the early days of 1924 Russell and Holmes are given an urgent task by his brother Mycroft: Find a British spy gone missing along India’s northwest frontier, where men are dying and trouble is brewing. The spy’s name? Click for more info.

	Keeping Watch Author: Laurie R. King Published: March 1, 2003 by Bantam Books Series Name: Standalone Category: Suspense Main Character: Allen Carmichael; Rae Newborn The "ghost" of Folly island, Allen Carmichael, is a man with a few ghosts of his own, which accompany him as he performs his rescues of abused children and their mothers. Only his ghosts don’t tell him when one day he meets a child who may not be the innocent victim he appears. (For a more complete description, photographs, a bibliography, and an excerpt from the book, see the Books and Reviews page of Laurie King’s web site at http://www.laurierking.com/books_and_reviews.php#tad) Click for more info.

	Justice Hall Author: Laurie R. King Published: March 1, 2002 by Bantam Books Series Name: Mary Russell Category: Historical Main Character: Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes Two old friends reappear, in decidedly different guise: the two “Bedouin” guides from O Jerusalem are in England, caught in a mesh of honor and justice and the death of a young nephew. (Mary Russell #6. For a more complete description, photographs, a bibliography, and an excerpt from the book, see the Books and Reviews page of Laurie King’s web site at http://www.laurierking.com/books_and_reviews.php#tad) Click for more info.

	Folly Author: Laurie R. King Published: March 1, 2001 by Bantam Books Series Name: Standalone Category: Suspense Main Character: Rae Newborn; Allen Carmichael (Macavity Award.) The book that nearly emptied Random House, New York, as half the staff came perilously near to deciding that if Rae Newborn could go to an island and rebuild an old house, why couldn’t they? After all, they didn’t begin with her problems, did they? (For a more complete description, photographs, a bibliography, and an excerpt from the book, see the Books and Reviews page of Laurie King’s web site at http://www.laurierking.com/books_and_reviews.php#tad) Click for more info.

	Night Work Author: Laurie R. King Published: May 1, 2000 by Bantam Books Series Name: Kate Martinelli Category: Mystery/ police Main Character: Kate Marinelli; Al Hawkin; Lee Cooper Feminism in San Francisco is like nowhere else. Here we begin with applying tasers and tattoos to abusers, and then we bring in Kali to clean up? (Kate Martinelli #4) To see a more complete description, photographs, a bibliography, and an excerpt from the book, see the Books and Reviews page of Laurie King’s web site at http://www.laurierking.com/books_and_reviews.php#tad Click for more info.

	O Jerusalem Author: Laurie R. King Published: June 1, 1999 by Bantam Books Series Name: Mary Russell Category: Historical Main Character: Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes Mycroft Holmes has a little job that needs doing, in 1919 Palestine, where an unfinished war is about to blow up and Russell finds that life as a Bedouin is not all strong coffee and candied almonds. (Mary Russell #5. For a more complete description, photographs, a bibliography, and an excerpt from the book, see the Books and Reviews page of Laurie King’s web site at http://www.laurierking.com/books_and_reviews.php#tad) Click for more info.