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Book 1: A Grave Talent
FATAL GIFT
The unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco.
A series of shocking murders has occurred, each victim a child. For Detective
Kate Martinelli, just promoted to Homicide and paired with a seasoned cop who's
less than thrilled to be handed a green partner, it's a difficult case that just
keeps getting harder. Then the detectives receive what appears to be a case-
breaking lead: it seems that one of the residents of this odd colony is Vaun
Adams, arguably the century's greatest woman painter, and a notorious felon once
convicted of strangling a little girl. But what really happened eighteen years
ago? To bring a murderer to justice, Kate must delve into the artist's dark past -
even if it means losing everything she holds dear....
Book 2: To Play the Fool
When a band of homeless people cremate a beloved dog in San Francisco's Golden
Gate Park, the authorities are willing to overlook a few broken regulations. But
three weeks later, when the dog's owner gets the same fiery send-off, the SFPD
has a real headache on its hands. The autopsy suggests homicide, but inspector
Kate Martinelli and her partner, Al Hawkin, have little else to go on. They have
a homeless victim without a positive ID, a group of witnesses who have little
love for the cops, and a possible suspect, known only as Brother Erasmus, who is
certainly articulate, but difficult to understand.
Erasmus, Kate learns, is well acquainted with the park's homeless and with the
rarefied atmosphere of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, yet he is an enigma
to all. He has a genius for blending with his surroundings, yet he stands out
wherever he goes. He is by no means crazy--but he is a Fool. Kate begins the
frustrating task of interrogating a man who communicates only through quotations.
Trying to learn something of his history leads her along a twisting road to
a disbanded cult, long-buried secrets, the thirst for spirituality, and the hunger
for bloody vengeance.
Book 3: With Child
Adrift in mist-shrouded San Francisco mornings and alcohol-fogged nights, homicide
detective Kate Martinelli can't escape the void left by her departed lover, who has
gone off to rethink their relationship. But when twelve-year-old Jules Cameron comes
to Kate for a professional consultation, Kate's not sure she's that desperate for
distraction. Jules is worried about her friend Dio, a homeless boy she met in
a park. Dio has disappeared without a word of farewell, and Jules wants Kate to
find him. Reluctant as she is, Kate can't say no -- and soon finds herself forming
a friendship with the bright, quirky girl. But the search for Dio will prove to be
much more than both bargained for--and it's only the beginning. When Jules disappears
while taking a trip with Kate, a desperate search begins ... and Kate knows all too
well the odds of finding the child alive....
Book 4: Night Work
Kate and her partner, Al Hawkin, are called to a scene of carefully executed murder:
the victim is a muscular man, handcuffed and strangled, a stun gun's faint burn on his
chest and candy in his pocket. The likeliest person to want him dead, his often-abused
wife, is meek and frail--and has an airtight alibi. Kate and Al are stumped, until
a second body turns up--also zapped, cuffed, and strangled ... and carrying a candy bar.
This victim: a convicted rapist.
As newspaper headlines speculate about vendetta killings, a third death draws Kate and
Al into a network of pitiless destruction that reaches far beyond San Francisco, a modern-
style hit list with shudderingly primal roots.
Book 5: The Art of Detection
This thrilling new novel ingeniously bridges Laurie R. King's Edgar and Creasey Awards-
winning Kate Martinelli series and her New York Times bestselling series starring Mary
Russell. Here, San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli crosses paths with
Sherlock Holmes...or does she?
Kate Martinelli has seen her share of peculiar things at murder scenes but never anything
quite like this: an ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Sherlock Holmes story -
complete with gunshots in the wallpaper that spell out the initials of the late queen.
Philip Gilbert was a Holmes fanatic, a leading expert with a collection of priceless
memorabilia -- a collection some would kill for. And perhaps someone did, for it includes
a century-old manuscript purportedly written by Holmes himself, one that eerily echoes
details of Gilbert's own murder. Now Kate must follow the convoluted trail of a killer
who may have trained at the feet of the greatest mind of all time.
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