Laurie R. King

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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1993
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Folly Island

1 - Folly (Feb-2001)
2 - Keeping Watch (Mar-2003)

A Kate Martinelli Novel

1 - A Grave Talent (Feb-1993)
2 - To Play the Fool (Feb-1995)
3 - With Child (Jan-1996)
4 - Night Work (Feb-2000)
5 - The Art of Detection (Jun-2006)

A Mary Russell Novel

1 - The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Jan-1994)
1.5 - Beekeeping for Beginners (Jul-2011)
2 - A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Jul-1995)
3 - A Letter of Mary (Jan-1997)
4 - The Moor (Jan-1998)
5 - O Jerusalem (Jun-1999)
6 - Justice Hall (Mar-2002)
7 - The Game (Mar-2004)
8 - Locked Rooms (Jun-2005)
9 - The Language of Bees (May-2009)
10 - The God of the Hive (May-2010)
11 - Pirate King (Sep-2011)
12 - Garment of Shadows (Sep-2012)
13 - Dreaming Spies (Feb-2015)
14 - The Murder of Mary Russell (Apr-2016)
15 - Island of the Mad (Jun-2018)
16 - Riviera Gold (Jun-2020)
17 - Castle Shade (Jan-2021)
18 - The Lantern's Dance (Mar-2024)

Stuyvesant & Grey

1 - Touchstone (Jan-2008)
2 - The Bones of Paris (Sep-2013)

Book List in Order: 49 titles

  • A Grave Talent

    A Kate Martinelli Novel - 1

    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 le...

  • The Beekeeper's Apprentice

    A Mary Russell Novel - 1

    In 1915, long since retired from his observations of criminal humanity, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. Never did he think to meet an intellect to match his own--until his acquaintance with Mi...

  • To Play the Fool

    A Kate Martinelli Novel - 2

    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 ...

  • A Monstrous Regiment of Women

    A Mary Russell Novel - 2

    The dawn of 1921 finds Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes's brilliant young apprentice, about to come into a considerable inheritance. Nevertheless, she still enjoys her nighttime prowls in disguise through London's grimy streets, where one night she enco...

  • With Child

    A Kate Martinelli Novel - 3

    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 come...

  • A Letter of Mary

    A Mary Russell Novel - 3

    Late in the summer of 1923, Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the illustrious Sherlock Holmes, are ensconced in their home on the Sussex Downs. giving themselves over to their studies: Russell to her theology, and Holmes to his malodorous chemical...

  • The Moor

    A Mary Russell Novel - 4

    Though theirs is a marriage of true equals, when Sherlock Holmes summons his wife and partner Mary Russell to the eerie scene of his most celebrated case, she abandons her Oxford studies to aid his investigation. But this time, on Dartmoor, there is ...

  • A Darker Place

    A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few: Years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and daughter. Fewer still know that this history and her academic specialty alternative religious movements have made her a...

  • O Jerusalem

    A Mary Russell Novel - 5

    At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England's green and pleasant land, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes' enigmatic brother, Mycroft."Gentlemen, we are at your service." Thus Holm...



  • Night Work

    A Kate Martinelli Novel - 4

    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 ofte...

  • Folly

    Folly Island - 1

    At fifty-two, Rae Newborn is a woman on the edge: on the edge of sanity, on the edge of tragedy, and now on the edge of the world. A celebrated artist, she has moved to an island at the far reaches of the continent, into the house she inherited from ...

  • Justice Hall

    A Mary Russell Novel - 6

    Only hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving one murky riddle on the moor, another knocks the on their front door, literally. It's a mystery that begins during the Great War, when Gabriel Hughenfort died amidst scandalous rumors that have ...

  • Keeping Watch

    Folly Island - 2

    Allen Carmichael came back from Vietnam a lifetime ago--but only now was he ready to return home. For years, he's lived on the fringes of the law, using a soldier's skills to keep watch over those too young to defend themselves. Some consider him not...

  • The Game

    A Mary Russell Novel - 7

    Laurie R. King's bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a...

  • Locked Rooms

    A Mary Russell Novel - 8

    Mary Russell and husband Sherlock Holmes are en route to bustling San Francisco to settle her family's estate. But as they get closer to port, Mary falls prey to troubling dreams and irrational behavior. In 1906, when Mary was six, the city was devas...

  • The Art of Detection

    A Kate Martinelli Novel - 5

    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 path...

  • Touchstone

    Stuyvesant & Grey - 1

    Hailed for her rich and powerful works of psychological suspense as well as her New York Times bestselling mysteries, Laurie R. King now takes us to a remote cottage in Cornwall where a gripping tale of intrigue, terrorism, and explosive passions beg...

  • The Fool

    in The Blue Religion

    WHAT IS IT LIKE TO CORNER A MURDERER? TO UNMASK A HIDDEN KILLER? In The Blue Religion, bestselling author Michael Connelly brings together nineteen original stories from some of today's greatest crime writers to reveal the thrills and dangers of b...

  • The House

    in Unusual Suspects

    All-new from the top names in mystery and fantasy? including a never-beforepublished Sookie Stackhouse story from Charlaine Harris! This follow-up to Powers of Detection showcases bestselling and award-winning names from Simon Green to Laurie King...



  • The Language of Bees

    A Mary Russell Novel - 9

    In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husband's storied past--a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to sting...this time fatally. Fo...

  • The God of the Hive

    A Mary Russell Novel - 10

    In Laurie R. King's latest Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mystery, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller of ingenious surprises and unrelenting suspense--as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immun...

  • Beekeeping for Beginners

    A Mary Russell Novel - 1.5

    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’...

  • Pirate King

    A Mary Russell Novel - 11

    In this latest adventure featuring the intrepid Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King takes readers into the frenetic world of silent films -- where the pirates are real and the shooting isn't...

  • Hellbender

    in Down These Strange Streets

    All new strange cases of death and magic in the city by some of the biggest names in urban fantasy.

    In this all-new collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the en...

  • A Study in Sherlock

    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 fas...

  • Garment of Shadows

    A Mary Russell Novel - 12

    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 separa...

  • Mrs. Hudson's Case

    When Sherlock Holmes retired to the Sussex Downs, his long-time (and long-suffering) housekeeper, Mrs Hudson, went along to run his life. But when the house is invaded, shortly after his meeting with Miss Mary Russell, Mr Holmes refuses to turn his...

  • The Bones of Paris

    Stuyvesant & Grey - 2

    "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 th...

  • The Mary Russell Companion

    The world of Mary Russell, apprentice-turned-partner of the great detective Sherlock Holmes, has long fascinated her followers. Over the course of ten Memoirs and a number of short stories, Russell has revealed much about her life -- but far more ha...



  • Mila's Tale

    "Mila’s Tale” is midrash -- the retelling of a Biblical passage. Half of it is a previously unpublished Laurie R. King short story; the other half is the author’s commentary on the text (“Jephthah’s Daughter” of Judges 11) with some sugg...

  • In the Company of Sherlock Holmes

    In the follow-up to the nationally bestselling A Study in Sherlock, a stunning new volume of original stories from award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were recently...

  • Mary's Christmas

    An original short story set in the world of Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, "Mary's Christmas" goes back to a time long before the two met on the Sussex Downs in the spring of 1915.It begins one winter's evening in late 1921 or 1922 when the two ar...

  • Dreaming Spies

    A Mary Russell Novel - 13

    Laurie R. King’s New York Times bestselling novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, are critically acclaimed and beloved by readers for the author’s adept interplay of history and adventure. Now the intrepid du...

  • Mary Russell's War

    Laurie R. King illuminates the hidden corners of Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes's world in this beguiling short story collection. With King's beloved brand of crime fiction blended together with historical treats and narrative sleight of hand, we r...

  • The Marriage of Mary Russell

    Laurie R. King takes readers way back in her bestselling series with this exclusive ebook short story, as Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes embark upon the riskiest adventure of their partnership: their wedding.   Includes a special preview of th...

  • The Murder of Mary Russell

    A Mary Russell Novel - 14

    Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series weaves rich historical detail and provocative themes with intriguing characters and enthralling suspense. Russell and Holmes have become one of modern literature’s most beloved teams. But does ...

  • Echoes of Sherlock Holmes

    In a stunning follow-up to the acclaimed "In the Company of Sherlock Holmes," Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger present a brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canon. In this follow-up to the acclaimed "In the Compan...

  • Stately Holmes: A Novella

    One of the preeminent figures in the realm of mystery fiction, New York Times best-selling author Laurie R. King is perhaps most widely celebrated for her works featuring the amiable, if often contentious, partnership between Mary Russell and Sherloc...

  • Career Day

    A community comes together when threatened by someone with a thirst for revenge in this stunningly intricate, tautly plotted novel of rich psychological suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell mysteries. Career Day ...



  • Lockdown

    A community comes together when threatened by someone with a thirst for revenge in this stunningly intricate, tautly plotted novel of rich psychological suspense Career Day at Guadalupe Middle School: A day given to innocent hopes and youthful dre...

  • Island of the Mad

    A Mary Russell Novel - 15

    With Mrs. Hudson gone from their lives and domestic chaos building, the last thing Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, need is to help an old friend with her mad and missing aunt. Lady Vivian Beaconsfield has spent most of her adult lif...

  • For the Sake of the Game: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon

    In a sensational follow-up to Echoes of Sherlock Holmes and In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, a brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canon. For the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series fro...

  • Beginnings

    INSPECTOR KATE MARTINELLI has worked the SFPD's Homicide Detail for nearly thirty years. She knows all about how a cop builds a case bit by bit to create a clear story from the scattered pieces of evidence. Until the day her fifteen-year-old daugh...

  • Riviera Gold

    A Mary Russell Novel - 16

    Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes turn the Riviera upside down to crack their most captivating case yet in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called “the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.” It’s sum...

  • In League with Sherlock Holmes

    in In League with Sherlock Holmes

    The latest entry in Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger’s popular Sherlock Holmes-inspired mystery series, featuring fifteen talented authors and a multitude of new cases for Arthur Conan Doyle’s most acclaimed detective.Sherlock Holmes ...

  • Castle Shade

    A Mary Russell Novel - 17

    A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat -- all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this chilling new adventure. The queen is Marie of Roumania: the doubly royal granddaughter of Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II,...

  • Back to the Garden

    A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life -- with potentially fatal consequences -- in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series.ONE OF TH...

  • The Lantern's Dance

    A Mary Russell Novel - 18

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal.“Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further f...

  • Knave of Diamonds

    Mary Russell’s allegiances are tested by the reappearance of her long-lost uncle -- and a tantalizing case not even Sherlock Holmes could solve.When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black-sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn’t heard from him in...



Award-Winning Books by Laurie R. King

Dreaming Spies
2015 Agatha Award -- Historical
Folly
2002 Macavity Award -- Mystery Novel
A Grave Talent
1994 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- First Novel
In the Company of Sherlock Holmes
2015 Anthony Award -- Anthology/Collection
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
1996 Nero Wolfe Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Laurie R. King has published 49 books.

The next book by Laurie R. King, Knave of Diamonds, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Laurie R. King, A Grave Talent, was published in February 1993.

Yes. Laurie R. King has 4 series.
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