Laurie R King

I wanted to learn more about Laurie R King. I think the picture of Laurie R King on the right side of her website is completely how I invision Rae from Folly.


"Laurie R. King’s fiction falls into three areas. First in the hearts of most readers comes Mary Russell, who met the retired Mr Sherlock Holmes in the winter of 1915 and became first his apprentice, then his partner. Starting with The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and continuing through The Language of Bees, Russell and Holmes move through the ’teens and ’twenties in amiable discord, challenging each other to ever greater feats of detection, traveling the world from Sussex to Simla."

"King's other series concerns San Francisco homicide inspectore Kate Martinelli, her SFPD partner Al Hawkin, and her life partner Lee Cooper." (Do you think Lee is male or female?) King's book A Grave Talent is fifth and last thus far in this series. It won the Edgar Allen Poe award in 1994.

"King has also written three stand-alone suspense novels. A Darker place, Folly, and Keeping Watch. Keeping Watch is the story of Vietnam vet Allen Carmichael, who draws on his combat experiences to rescue abused women and children, until he comes across a boy whose problems may rival his own." So this book is a bit of sequel to Folly. I think I will put it on my to-read list at Goodreads.com

Interesting tidbits about King!