A Grave Talent
A Novel

Name: A Grave Talent
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Laurie R. King
ISBN: 9781427251466

Author: Laurie R. King

Series: Kate Martinelli Mystery #1

Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan

Unabridged: 14 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 01/07/2014

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, Lgbtq+, Women Sleuths

Synopsis

Read the first Kate Martinelli Mystery by New York Times bestselling, Edgar award-winning novelist Laurie R. King.

In Grave Talent, the unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco. A series of shocking murders has occurred, the victims far too innocent and defenseless. 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 a heinous crime.

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.

About Laurie R. King

Laurie R. King has more than twenty novels in print, most of them crime novels, that include the wildly popular Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series (The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Garment of Shadows). Her novels have won the Edgar, Creasey, Wolfe, Lambda, and Macavity awards, been shortlisted for The Orange and other prizes, and appear regularly on the New York Times bestseller list.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kells

Before anything else I have to address some of the reviews of this book. Being gay is not an agenda. Wanting this to be kept private and free from literature is tantamount to saying that you want to erase gay people from a literary presence which is, to put it bluntly, some bigoted bullshit. There is......more

Goodreads review by MaxDisaster

3 stars This was long. Well, I've read longer books and didn't complain, but those had better writing. This book was written fairly well, but it got boring and repetitive pretty quickly. The characters weren't all that interesting either. So I won't continue with this series, at least not now. One book......more

Goodreads review by Nina

A Grave Talent left me dissatisfied. I enjoyed the style of writing, because it is lively and creates this certain kind of flow, so that you can easily read on and on. Then again, there are passages that you do not need, detailed without creating beauty, tension, anything really. But then you have a......more

Quotes

“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

Awards

Anthony Awards - Nominee
Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner