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Recommended by Judy Barrow

Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell books are up there with Louise’s on my favorites list. I just read “Th

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I just finished reading The Lantern’s Dance by Laurie R. King and loved it! If you’ve never read any

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Books By Laurie R King

Knave of Diamonds
The Lantern's Dance
Touchstone
The Bones of Paris
Folly
Keeping Watch
A Darker Place
A Study in Sherlock
In the Company of Sherlock Holmes
Echoes of Sherlock Holmes
For the Sake of the Game
In League with Sherlock Holmes
Califia's Daughters: A Novel
Back to the Garden
Hellbender: A Novella
Mila's Tale: A Novella
Castle Shade
Beekeeping for Beginners
The Mary Russell Companion
Mary's Christmas
Stately Holmes
The Marriage of Mary Russell
Mary Russell's War: And Other Stories of Suspense
Laurie R. King's Sherlock Holmes
A Grave Talent
To Play the Fool
With Child
The Murder of Mary Russell
Night Work
Island of the Mad
The Art of Detection
Riviera Gold
Beginnings: A Kate Martinelli Novella
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
A Letter of Mary
The Moor
O Jerusalem
Justice Hall
The Game
Locked Rooms
The Language of Bees
The God of the Hive
Pirate King
Garment of Shadows
Dreaming Spies
The Kate Martinelli Series: Books 1-3
The Mary Russell Series: Books 2-4

Tips and Resources From Your Laurie R King Book Club Friends:

Is there another modern mystery writer that explores Sherlock Holmes in such a delightfully original way? With Mary Russell, Laurie R. King has created a partner for Holmes who is as interesting and engaging as he is. There are multiple reasons why the long-standing series continues to enthral readers. Do you look forward to Mary and Sherlock’s banter and exchange of whits or are you more interested in the mysteries they solve? Let’s compare notes like the consulting detectives do. And let’s not leave out discussing King’s other mystery series too.

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Recommendations From Laurie’s Fans

Wiley Cash

Recommended by Nancy Herrington

It was a book that was difficult to put down when I read it. A low-flying plane awakens the sheriff and crashes. He finds

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Ariel Lawhon

Recommended by Julie Gritt

A historical fiction mystery. A clean story, nothing vulgar. Based on the real diary entries

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Kerry Greenwood

Recommended by Gillian Mitchell

I’m always up for another Miss Fisher adventure. They are very entertaining and I love all the histo

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Iona Whishaw

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I’m really enjoying Iona Whishaw’s Lane Winslow series; it takes place in BC near Nelson just after

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Louise Penny

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Before I discovered Louise Penny, I was very taken with Elizabeth George and Laurie R. King. I devou

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Recommended Books From Laurie R King Fans

The Typhoon Lover
A Matter of Justice
Deadline
A World of Curiosities
Brimstone
Love You More
Until It's Over
At Some Disputed Barricade
Blindfold Game
Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
All That Glitters: A Sgt. Windflower Mystery
Silent Voices
Gone Before Christmas: A Charles Lenox Mystery
Butchers and Other Stories of Crime
Dead Lions
A Pattern of Lies
Death of a Nurse
The Buckshaw Chronicles: Volume 1
Sharp Force
Suicide Run
Rebus: Long Shadows
A Noël Killing
The Custom of the Army: An Outlander Novella
The English Assassin
Deadly Decisions
A Measure of Darkness
A Tap on the Window
The Camel Club
The Third Nero
The Long Way Home
The Spotted Dog
Midnight Run
Wicked Business
In Dublin's Fair City
The Children Return
Atonement of Blood
Friends in High Places
Hell's Corner
Savage Run
The Black Box
One Fatal Flaw
The Caretaker: A Mike Bowditch Short Mystery
The Jewels of Paradise
The Janus Stone
Smoke and Mirrors
Nightshade
Blue Genes
Night of the White Buffalo
The Rise: A Short Story
The Dream Stalker
Dead Mountain
Blood Memory
Trace Elements
Summer of the Dragon
The Crocodile Bird
Enemies at Home: A Flavia Albia Novel
For the Sake of Elena
To the Nines
But For The Grace: A DC Smith Investigation
Smoke and Mirrors
First Frost: A Longmire Mystery
Name Withheld
Mary's Christmas
The Narrows
One True Love
I'd Know You Anywhere
The Dark Horse: A Longmire Mystery
Knave of Diamonds
All That Remains
Moriarty
Evan's Gate
The Wedding Guest
Buried Prey
Different for Girls
The Blood Doctor
The Best Man to Die
Victim 2117
I Know a Secret: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
The Tick of Death
Betrayal of Trust
Midnight and Blue
Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose
Spook Street
Out of the Black Land
Twisted Prey
The Wandering Soul Murders
The Serpent and the Pearl
Uncertain Voyage: A Novel
Dreaming of the Bones
The Buzzard Table
The Last Passenger
Death in Brittany: A Mystery
Fearless Fourteen
Surfacing
What Rose Forgot
Pitch Dark
The Seventh Sinner
Past Pretense
Many Rivers to Cross
The Poacher's Son
The Prisoner
The Shadow Killer
The Secret Hours
Force of Nature
Swing
Shots Fired
Portobello
The Housemaid's Wedding: A Short Story
Bloodstream
Never Saw it Coming
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
The Singing Sands
The Pact: A Kate Burkholder Short Mystery
Gathering Prey
Break No Bones
The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists
Justice: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
On the Edge
Belgrave Square
Before She Disappeared
Watching You
Night Work
Wild Fire
Storm Track
Death in Focus
Lightning Strike
Grave Secrets
Three Hands in the Fountain
The Chessmen
Only the Lucky: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
An Official Killing
Mary Higgins Clark and Elizabeth Peters Present More Malice Domestic
Smoke and Murders
Murder on the Ballarat Train
Castle Shade
Chasing the Dime
Heartstones
Lost Prophecies
Shimura Trouble
An Unkindness Of Ravens
The Silent Spirit
A Death in Vienna
Dorchester Terrace
Harvest
Extraordinary People
The Woman on the Island: A Vera Stanhope Short Story
The Thief
Trunk Music
The Killing Doll
Before the Poison
Full Scoop
Abracadaver
Lisey's Story
The Fallen
The Guise of Another
Two Bagger
Head Wounds
Here One Moment
The Leper's Bell
High Country Fall
The Perfect Husband
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
A Christmas Garland
Death of a Maid
Rock with Wings
Obsession: An Alex Delaware Novel
One Perfect Couple
Killing Season: A Thriller
Never Say Die
The Witches' Tree: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
Bootlegger's Daughter
Code to Zero
See Delphi and Die
Ocean Prey
The Shadows in the Street
Full Blast
Death of a Dentist
Almost Midnight
A Demon In My View
Riptide
Motive: An Alex Delaware Novel
Below Zero
Cross and Burn
Phantom: A Harry Hole Novel
The Pursuit
The Last Illusion
Never
Sworn to Silence
The Maid
Hard Row
The Clinic: An Alex Delaware Novel
A Lethal Lesson
Eye of the Wolf
Every Cloak Rolled in Blood
An Extravagant Death
Justice Denied
A Morning for Flamingos
In a Gilded Cage
Messenger of Truth
The Good Daughter: A Novel
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
The Likeness
The Snowman
Mrs de Winter
Throttle
The Rose Arbor
Toxic Prey
Bluegate Fields
Looking Good Dead
A Bird in the Hand
A Bitter Truth
Still Life: A Karen Pirie Novel
The Old Fox Deceiv'd
Lone Wolf
How the Light Gets In
The Sleeping and the Dead
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales
The Darkness
The Family Upstairs
Skinwalkers
A Christmas Grace: A Novel
Tunnel Vision
End in Tears
Alchemist
Death of Yesterday
A Dangerous Place
Beekeeping for Beginners
The Luckiest Woman Ever
The Traitor Among Us
The Girls on the Shore: A Detective Matthew Venn Short Story
Die Again: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Beneath the Surface
All the Colors of the Dark
The Fallen Curtain and Other Stories
The Weaker Sex
Faithful Place
A Grave Denied
Vermilion Drift
Stop Them Dead
A Birthday Lunch
An Accidental Death: A DC Smith Investigation
No Mark Upon Her
The Inheritance
The Ghost Orchid: An Alex Delaware Novel
Agatha Raisin and The Witch of Wyckhadden
Tooth and Claw: A Longmire Story
Murder 101
Killing Grounds
Picture You Dead
The Case Has Altered: A Richard Jury Mystery
One by One
Cemetery Dance
The Vanishing Point
The Dark Hours
Devil's Food
Exit Music
Witch
Death of a Scriptwriter
Asta's Book
Well-Schooled in Murder
The Tess Chronicles
Critical Mass: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
A Hero to Hold
Blood Shot
A Royal Pain
Fallen
Silent in the Grave
Bad Actors
Long Road to Mercy
Bruno and the Carol Singers: A Christmas Mystery of the French Countryside
Seasonal Work
White Nights
Friend of the Devil: An Inspector Banks Novel
The Postscript Murders
Monster: An Alex Delaware Novel
Missing and Endangered
The Windsor Protocol
Alexandria
The Naming of the Dead
One Step Too Far
Secret Smile
Final Assignment
A Conspiracy of Bones
Under the Streets of Nice: The Bank Heist of the Century
Duma Key
The Missing Corpse: A Brittany Mystery
Angels in the Gloom: A Novel
The Quiet Side of Passion
Need You Dead
The Cliff's Edge
Quitter's Inc.
The Noble Path
Beating About the Bush
The Charming Quirks of Others
A Guilty Thing Surprised
A Spot of Folly
No Man's Land
Playing with Fire
Home Fires

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Brin J. Johnson
“The Mary Russell books are fantastic. Beekeeper’s Apprentice has to be one of my all-time favourite mysteries and the series is my ‘number two’ after Gamache.”

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