A Grave Talent - Hardcover

""A Grave Talent" kept me reading deep into the night."--"The Boston Globe"

"[An] amazing first novel with intelligence, intrigue, and intricacy...This work exhibits strong psychological undertones, compelling urgency, and dramatic action."--"Library Journal
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"A Grave Talent" kept me reading deep into the night. "The Boston Globe"

[An] amazing first novel with intelligence, intrigue, and intricacy...This work exhibits strong psychological undertones, compelling urgency, and dramatic action. "Library Journal""

A Grave Talent kept me reading deep into the night. The Boston Globe

[An] amazing first novel with intelligence, intrigue, and intricacy...This work exhibits strong psychological undertones, compelling urgency, and dramatic action. Library Journal

"A Grave Talent kept me reading deep into the night." --The Boston Globe

"[An] amazing first novel with intelligence, intrigue, and intricacy...This work exhibits strong psychological undertones, compelling urgency, and dramatic action." --Library Journal

Kate Martinelli, a recently promoted Homicide detective, and Alonzo Hawkin, a world-weary cop trying to make a new life in San Francisco, could not be more different but are thrown together to solve a brutal crime – the murders of three young girls.

Their search takes them to a rural colony, close to the place where the bodies were found. Here they meet the enigmatic artist Vaun, who is hiding a terrible secret from her past and her real identity.

As Martinelli and Hawkin get nearer to a solution, they realize the crimes may not be sexually motivated killings they had seemed. There is a coldly calculating and tortuous mind at work which they must outmanoeuvre if they are to prevent further carnage and the destruction of a shining talent.

‘If there is a new P.D. James... I would put my money on Laurie R. King’
BOSTON GLOBE

‘Unusually sensitive and densely imagined’
KIRKUS REEVES