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With Child by Laurie R. King
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Laurie King is the award-winning author of a variety of mystery styles, from historical to police procedural to suspense.
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With Child by Laurie R. King
Features
Paperback:
320 pages
; Dimensions (in inches): 0.91 x 6.90 x 4.21
Publisher: Bantam Books; Reprint edition (May 1997)
ISBN:
0553574582
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I can't think of any moments in recent mysteries that equal the sheer physical and emotional terror of Kate Martinelli's discovery--about halfway through this third book in Laurie R. King's excellent series, now available in paperback--that the 12-year-old girl she is looking after has disappeared. Kate, a just-out lesbian, is under fire for that and other reasons at the San Francisco Police Department, and the missing girl is the daughter of the woman whom Kate's work partner has just married. Kate's relationship with her life partner, Lee, is in serious trouble, and she has strong feelings about wanting children of her own. The motel from which the girl has vanished is in the middle of a notorious serial killer's terrortory. As she does in her equally smart and visceral series about Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (The Beekeeper's Apprentice, A Monstrous Regiment of Women, A Letter of Mary), King balances all the elements perfectly, and keeps us involved every inch of the way. Her other Martinelli books are A Grave Talent and To Play the Fool.
Reader Reviews
From boring to emotionally, May 5, 2003
Reviewer:
Jorge Frid
from Mexico city
I have to confess that the first part of the book, the story of Kate and her lover, her problems at work, at home were boring, but when you finish that part of the book is getting better and better until the end. The way she talk with Jules and the way she rescue her won't let you put the book down.
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