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Laurie R. King


Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of ten Mary Russell mysteries, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, and the acclaimed novels A Darker Place, Folly, Keeping Watch, and Touchstone. She lives in Northern California where she is currently at work on her next novel.

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The Bones of Paris
Written by Laurie R. King

Hardcover | 432 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-345-53176-6 (0-345-53176-0)

September 10, 2013 | $30.00

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The Bones of Paris
Written by Laurie R. King

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345531766
Our Price: $30.00
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(Available September 10, 2013)


New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King, beloved for her acclaimed Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, consistently writes richly detailed and thoroughly suspenseful novels that bring a distant time and place to brilliant life. Now, in this thrilling new book, King leads readers into the vibrant and sensual Paris of the...

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The Bones of Paris
Written by Laurie R. King

eBook | 432 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-345-53177-3 (0-345-53177-9)

September 10, 2013 | $14.99



New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King, beloved for her acclaimed Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, consistently writes richly detailed and thoroughly suspenseful novels that bring a distant time and place to brilliant life. Now, in this thrilling new book, King leads readers into the vibrant and sensual Paris of the...

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Garment of Shadows
Written by Laurie R. King

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-553-38676-9 (0-553-38676-X)

August 20, 2013 | $18.00

(Available August 20, 2013)

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Garment of Shadows
Written by Laurie R. King

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780553386769
Our Price: $18.00
   Quantity: 1 
(Available August 20, 2013)


NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Laurie R. King’s New York Times bestselling novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, comprise one of today’s most acclaimed mystery series. Now, in their newest and most thrilling adventure, the couple is separated by a shocking circumstance in a perilous part of the...

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Garment of Shadows
Written by Laurie R. King

Hardcover | 288 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-553-80799-8 (0-553-80799-4)

September 4, 2012 | $31.00

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Garment of Shadows
Written by Laurie R. King

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780553807998
Our Price: $31.00
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Laurie R. King’s New York Times bestselling novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, comprise one of today’s most acclaimed mystery series. Now, in their newest and most thrilling adventure, the couple is separated by a shocking circumstance in a perilous part of the...

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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Garment of Shadows
Written by Laurie R. King

eBook | 288 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-553-90755-1 (0-553-90755-7)

September 4, 2012 | $14.99

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Garment of Shadows
Written by Laurie R. King

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780553907551
Our Price: $14.99


NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Laurie R. King’s New York Times bestselling novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, comprise one of today’s most acclaimed mystery series. Now, in their newest and most thrilling adventure, the couple is separated by a shocking circumstance in a perilous part of the...

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Pirate King (with bonus short story Beekeeping for Beginners)
Written by Laurie R. King

Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-553-38675-2 (0-553-38675-1)

April 17, 2012 | $18.00

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Pirate King (with bonus short story Beekeeping for Beginners)
Written by Laurie R. King

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780553386752
Our Price: $18.00
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
In England’s young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. But rumors of criminal activities swirl around his popular movie studio. At the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell travels undercover to the set of Fflytte’s latest cinematic extravaganza, Pirate King. Based on Gilbert...

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A Study in Sherlock

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Suspense
978-0-8129-8246-6 (0-8129-8246-0)

October 25, 2011 | $17.00

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A Study in Sherlock
Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, Contribution by Lee Child, Neil Gaiman and Alan Bradley

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812982466
Our Price: $17.00
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BESTSELLING AUTHORS GO HOLMES—IN AN IRRESISTIBLE NEW COLLECTION edited by award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
 
Neil Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These are just three of eighteen superstar authors who provide fascinating, thrilling, and utterly original perspectives on Sherlock Holmes in this one-of-a-kind book. These modern masters place...

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A Study in Sherlock

eBook | 400 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Suspense
978-0-8129-8247-3 (0-8129-8247-9)

October 25, 2011 | $12.99

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A Study in Sherlock
Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, Contribution by Lee Child, Neil Gaiman and Alan Bradley

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780812982473
Our Price: $12.99


BESTSELLING AUTHORS GO HOLMES—IN AN IRRESISTIBLE NEW COLLECTION edited by award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
 
Neil Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These are just three of eighteen superstar authors who provide fascinating, thrilling, and utterly original perspectives on Sherlock Holmes in this one-of-a-kind book. These modern masters place...

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Pirate King (with bonus short story Beekeeping for Beginners)
Written by Laurie R. King

eBook | 368 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-553-90754-4 (0-553-90754-9)

September 6, 2011 | $12.99

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Pirate King (with bonus short story Beekeeping for Beginners)
Written by Laurie R. King

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780553907544
Our Price: $12.99


NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
In England’s young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. But rumors of criminal activities swirl around his popular movie studio. At the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell travels undercover to the set of Fflytte’s latest cinematic extravaganza, Pirate King. Based on Gilbert...

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The God of the Hive
Written by Laurie R. King

Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-553-59041-8 (0-553-59041-3)

August 9, 2011 | $17.00

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The God of the Hive
Written by Laurie R. King

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780553590418
Our Price: $17.00
   Quantity: 1 


Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have stirred the wrath of a murderous secret organization bent on infiltrating the government. Now they are separated and on the run, wanted by the police, and pursued across the Continent by a ruthless enemy with limitless resources and powerful connections.

Unstoppable together, Russell and...



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Beekeeping for Beginners (Short Story)
Written by Laurie R. King

eBook | 46 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-345-52993-0 (0-345-52993-6)

July 6, 2011 | $0.99

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Beekeeping for Beginners (Short Story)
Written by Laurie R. King

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345529930
Our Price: $0.99


BONUS: This eBook includes an excerpt from Laurie R. King's Pirate King.

In this crackling short story, New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King reveals an unforgettable new twist in the adventure that led supersleuth Sherlock Holmes to discover his first (and finest) apprentice, Mary Russell.
 
Sherlock Holmes is fending off a...


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The Game
Written by Laurie R. King

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British
978-0-553-38637-0 (0-553-38637-9)

April 27, 2010 | $17.50

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The Game
Written by Laurie R. King

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780553386370
Our Price: $17.50
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It’s only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year’s visit from Holmes’s brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball O’Hara—the same Kimball known to...

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The God of the Hive
Written by Laurie R. King

eBook | 368 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-553-90768-1 (0-553-90768-9)

April 27, 2010 | $12.99

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The God of the Hive
Written by Laurie R. King

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780553907681
Our Price: $12.99


BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Laurie R. King's Pirate King.

Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have stirred the wrath of a murderous secret organization bent on infiltrating the government. Now they are separated and on the run, wanted by the police, and pursued across the Continent by a...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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The Language of Bees
Written by Laurie R. King

Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-553-58834-7 (0-553-58834-6)

April 27, 2010 | $17.50

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The Language of Bees
Written by Laurie R. King

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780553588347
Our Price: $17.50
   Quantity: 1 


For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast after seven months abroad was especially sweet. There was even a mystery to solve—the unexplained disappearance of an entire colony of bees from one of Holmes’s beloved hives.
But the anticipated sweetness of their homecoming is quickly tempered by...

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Locked Rooms
Written by Laurie R. King

Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-553-38638-7 (0-553-38638-7)

April 27, 2010 | $17.50

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Locked Rooms
Written by Laurie R. King

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780553386387
Our Price: $17.50
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En route to San Francisco to settle her family’s estate, Mary Russell, in the company of husband Sherlock Holmes, falls prey to troubling dreams—and even more troubling behavior. In 1906, when Mary was six, the city was devastated by a catastrophic earthquake. For years Mary has insisted she lived elsewhere at...

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