Touchstone, Laurie R. King
Touchstone, Laurie R. King
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Touchstone

Author: Laurie R. King

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Unabridged: 17 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/03/2008

Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King takes us to a remote cottage in Cornwall in this gripping tale of intrigue, terrorism, and explosive passions that begins with a visit to a recluse code-named … Once studied by British intelligence for his excruciating sensitivity to the world’s turmoil, Bennett Grey has withdrawn from the world—until an American Bureau of Investigation agent comes to assess Grey’s potential as a weapon in a new kind of warfare. Agent Harris Stuyvesant needs Grey’s help to enter a realm where the rich and the radical exist side by side—a heady mix of power, celebrity, and sexuality that conceals the free world’s deadliest enemy. Soon Stuyvesant finds himself dangerously seduced by one woman and–even more dangerously—falling in love with another. As he sifts through secrets divulged and kept, he uncovers the target of a horrifying conspiracy, and wonders if he can trust anyone, even his touchstone. “Cinematic … richly, even lushly, imagined.”—Booklist, starred review

About Laurie R. King

Laurie R. King is the Edgar Award–winning author of the Kate Martinelli novels and the acclaimed Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries, as well as a few stand-alone novels. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first in her Mary Russell series, was nominated for an Agatha Award and was named one of the Century’s Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. A Monstrous Regiment of Women won the Nero Wolfe Award. She has degrees in theology, and besides writing she has also managed a coffee store and raised children, vegetables, and the occasional building. She lives in northern California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel on January 27, 2008

This was a haunting book that carefully toed the line between supernatural fiction and mystery. Laurie King is the author of several excellent series (the Holmes/Russell books are among my all-time favorites) and this was definitely closer to the suspense/thriller side of mystery than her others. Th......more

Goodreads review by Sfdreams on June 13, 2008

I usually like Laurie King's books,(she's on my author alert at the library,) but I took this out TWICE from the library, and couldn't finish it either time. The second time, I didn't even want to pick it up--there were just too many other interesting things to do or read. The first time I got about......more

Goodreads review by Emma on February 21, 2021

This book involved a period of political history I knew little about: 1926 and the General Strike in support of the miners. From this point of view, I learned a lot. Laurie King was able to evoke a real sense of setting and time too. However the pace was really slow; and the book felt like it was wa......more

Goodreads review by Grace on January 05, 2020

This is the kind of book that necessitates staring into space for an hour after you finish it. Just to ponder.......more

Goodreads review by Robin on February 12, 2008

I've been a Laurie King fan since I read her first book in the Holmes/Russell series, The Beekeeper's Apprentice. Before Touchstone I'd never really been able to get into what I think of as her stand alone titles, rather than those that build into a series, but this one really sucked me in. I admit,......more

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