About the Author

Laurie R. King is the first novelist since Patricia Cornwell to win prizes for Best First Crime Novel on both sides of the Atlantic with the publication of her debut thriller, A Grave Talent. She is the best-selling author of seven Mary Russell mysteries, four contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, and the best-selling novels A Darker Place and Folly. She lives in northern California.

Reviews

'The Mary Russell series is the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today' Lee Child 'A wondrously taut mystery, ticking away like a malevolent clock' Booklist