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Laurie R King

(b.1952)

aka Leigh Richards

Laurie King is a third-generation native of San Francisco, but since her marriage to an Anglo-Indian professor she has lived briefly on five continents. She and her husband have two children. They live mostly in California.

Genres: Historical Mystery, Mystery

Series

Kate Martinelli
   1. A Grave Talent (1993)
   2. To Play the Fool (1995)
   3. With Child (1996)
   4. Night Work (2000)
   5. The Art of Detection (2006)
   Beginnings (2019)

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
   1. The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994)
     aka Or On the Segregation of the Queen
   2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women (1995)
   3. A Letter of Mary (1997)
   4. The Moor (1998)
   5. O Jerusalem (1999)
   6. Justice Hall (2002)
   7. The Game (2004)
   8. Locked Rooms (2005)
   9. The Language of Bees (2009)
   10. The God of the Hive (2010)
   10.5. Beekeeping for Beginners (2011)
   11. Pirate King (2011)
   12. Garment of Shadows (2012)
   13. Dreaming Spies (2015)
   14. The Murder of Mary Russell (2016)
   15. Island of the Mad (2018)
   16. Riviera Gold (2020)
   17. Castle Shade (2021)
   The Mary Russell Companion (2014)
   Mary's Christmas (2014)
   Stately Holmes (2016)
   The Marriage of Mary Russell (2016)
   Mary Russell's War (2016)

Anne Waverly
A Darker Place (1998)
aka The Birth of a New Moon

Folly Island
1. Folly (2001)
2. Keeping Watch (2003)

Harris Stuyvesant
1. Touchstone (2007)
2. The Bones of Paris (2013)

Mary Russell Omnibus
The Mary Russell Series: Books 2-4 (2016)

Novels

   Naked Came the Phoenix (2001) (with Nevada Barr, Mary Jane Clark, Diana Gabaldon, J A Jance, Faye Kellerman, Val McDermid, Pam and Mary O'Shaughnessy, Anne Perry, Nancy Pickard, J D Robb, Lisa Scottoline and Marcia Talley)
   Califia's Daughters (2004) (as by Leigh Richards)
   Lockdown (2017)
   Back to the Garden (2022)

Novellas

Hellbender (2013)
Mila's Tale (2014)

Anthologies edited

   A Study in Sherlock (2011) (with Leslie S Klinger)
   Writes of Passage (2014) (with Margaret Maron and Hank Phillippi Ryan)
   In the Company of Sherlock Holmes (2014) (with Leslie S Klinger)
   Echoes of Sherlock Holmes (2016) (with Leslie S Klinger)
   For the Sake of the Game (2018) (with Leslie S Klinger)
   In League with Sherlock Holmes (2020) (with Leslie S Klinger)

Non fiction

   The Arvon Book of Crime Writing (2012) (with Michelle Spring)
   Crime and Thriller Writing (2012) (with Michelle Spring)
   Laurie R. King's Sherlock Holmes (2013)
   My Thesis Being . . . (2013)
   How To Write a Mystery (2021) (with Lee Child)

Awards

	Agatha Award Best Novel nominee (1994) : The Beekeeper's Apprentice
	Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (1997) : With Child
	Macavity Awards Best Novel winner (2002) : Folly
	Agatha Award Best Historical Novel winner (2015) : Dreaming Spies

Laurie R King recommends

In the Midnight Hour (2001)
(Laura Principal, book 5)
Michelle Spring
"... delicious."

No Good Deed (2001)
Manda Scott
"Manda Scott picks us up by the scruff of the neck, drags us kicking and bumping along the rough side of life, then makes us fall in love with her characters along the way. Wow, just...wow."

A Grave Denied (2003)
(Kate Shugak, book 13)
Dana Stabenow
"Shugak is one of the great characters of modern crime fiction."

The Parisian Prodigal (2010)
(Fools' Guild Mystery, book 8)
Alan Gordon
"Only a fool would pass this one up."

Alias Hook (2013)
Lisa Jensen
"A delicious and thought-provoking read."

A Knife in the Fog (2018)
(Margaret Harkness and Arthur Conan Doyle, book 1)
Bradley Harper
"Ardent feminism and cerebral detection face down the Ripper in the fog-shrouded streets of London: a feast for lovers of historical crime!"

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