Laurie R. King

Name:	Laurie R. King
Also Known As:	Leigh Richards
Occupation:	author
Medium:	Books
Works:	Mary Russell, and others more…
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Laurie R. King is an American author best known for her detective fiction.

Bio

[Site's Biography]
Since Laurie R. King’s first book, A Grave Talent, came out in 1993, she has gained a reputation as a prize-winning, best-selling author who holds an undying place in the hearts of readers ranging from fourteen year-old girls to members of the House of Lords to ninety year-old retired Air Force colonels.

King was born in northern California, the third generation in her family native to the San Francisco area. She spent her childhood reading her way through libraries like a termite through balsa, her middle years raising children, traveling the world, and studying theology, earning a BA degree in comparative religion and an MA in Old Testament Theology. She now lives a genteel life of crime, back again in northern California. Her 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 his apprentice, later his partner, and eventually his wife. Starting with The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and continuing through The Game (March 2004), Russell and Holmes move through the ’teens and ’twenties in amiable discord, challenging each other to ever greater feats of detection. King’s other series concerns San Francisco homicide inspector Kate Martinelli, her SFPD partner Al Hawkin, and her life partner Lee Cooper. In the course of her four books, Kate has encountered a modern-day female Rembrandt, a modern-day Holy Fool, two difficult teenagers, and a manifestation of the goddess Kali. King has also written three stand-alone suspense novels. A Darker Place truly stands alone, being the story of a middle-aged professor of religion who goes inside religious movements (so-called “cults”) to investigate their stability for the government, and here encounters a movement that embraces the ideas of alchemy. The other two independent novels are actually very loosely linked, telling the stories of two people whose lives overlap very slightly in each book. Folly tells of woodworker Rae Newborne, who comes to a deserted island to rebuild a house, and her life. 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. In addition to crime novels, she has written a futuristic novel, Califia’s Daughters (published in paperback original under the name Leigh Richards), and several short stories.

King has won the Edgar and Creasey awards (for A Grave Talent), the Nero (A Monstrous Regiment of Women) and the MacCavity (for Folly); her nominations include the Agatha, the Orange, and two more Edgars. She was also given an honorary doctorate from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

Awards

• Creasey Memorial (1995)
• Edgar (1994)
• Lambda (2007)
• Macavity (2002)
• Nero (1996)
• Agatha (2015)

Interviews

• An interview of Laurie R. King by Mary J. Russell

Works

Kate Martinelli mysteries

• A Grave Talent (1993)
• To Play the Fool (1995)
• With Child (1996)
• Night Work (2000)
• The Art of Detection (2006) (Lambda Literary Award 2006)
• Beginnings (2019)

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mysteries

• The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994)
• A Monstrous Regiment of Women (1995)
• A Letter of Mary (1997)
• The Moor (1998)
• O Jerusalem (1999)
  (although written fifth in sequence, the events in this book take place during the latter part of those described in The Beekeeper's Apprentice)
• Justice Hall (2002)
• The Game (2004)
• Locked Rooms (2005)
• The Language of Bees (2009)
• The God of the Hive (2010)
• Beekeeping for Beginners (an ebook novella) (2011)
  (This short story describes the early events of The Beekeeper's Apprentice from the point of view of Sherlock Holmes. The novella is included in Garment of Shadows.)
• Pirate King (2011)
• Garment of Shadows (2012)
• Dreaming Spies (2015)
  (although written thirteenth in sequence, the events in this book take place between those described in The Game and Locked Rooms)
• The Marriage of Mary Russell (March 15, 2016)
• The Murder of Mary Russell (April 5, 2016)
• Mary Russell's War And Other Stories of Suspense (2016)
  contains 10 short stories:

• "Mary's Christmas"
• "Mary Russell's War: My War Journal"
• "Beekeeping for Beginners"
• "The Marriage of Mary Russell"
• "Mrs Hudson's Case"
• "A Venomous Death"
• "Birth of a Green Man"
• "My Story, or The Case of the Ravening Sherlockians"
• "A Case in Correspondence"
• "Stately Holmes"

• Island of the Mad (2018)
• Riviera Gold (2020)
• Castle Shade (2021)
• The Lantern's Dance (2024)

Harris Stuyvesant and Bennett Grey series

(Historical novels of suspense, featuring FBI agent Harris Stuyvesant and injured British soldier Bennett Grey)

• Touchstone (2007)
• The Bones of Paris (2013)

Non-series books

• A Darker Place [UK title: The Birth of a New Moon] (1999)
• Folly (2001)
• Keeping Watch (2003)
• Califia's Daughters (as Leigh Richards) (2004) - science fiction.
• Lockdown (2017)
• Back to the Garden (2022)