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A Grave Talent (Paperback)

by Laurie R. King (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New Ed edition (8 Jan 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006493548
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006493549
  • Product Dimensions: 17.7 x 11.1 x 2.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 135,708 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Although Kate Martinelli, a newly promoted homicide detective with a secret to conceal, and Alonzo Hawkin, a world-weary cop trying to make a new life in San Francisco, could not be more different, they are thrown together to solve a brutal crime - the murders of three young girls.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One Brilliant book, 10 Jul 2000
By annie@chko.freeserve.co.uk (Newcastle, England) - See all my reviews
A brilliant book to say the least! I also stumbled across this book and it is truly a great book. It has fascinating strong characters with a brilliant plot which kept me reading well into the night.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Grave lack of Talent, 13 May 2003
I read this book because the author had won the Edgar for best first crime novel, and it had quotes by Conan Doyle and Henry David Thoreau before the first chapter. A big mistake, Laurie King is not that intelligent, or perhaps reading George Pelecanos, Michael Connelly, Peter Robinson, and Henning Mankell spoils you for lesser lights. This book seems to have been written by numbers, lets throw in a child serial killer, a talented artist with a fragile personality, a world weary divorced cop, yes another world weary divorced cop. But wait a minute said our author there are not enough cliches here so we will set part of the book in a reclusive California commune lorded over by a kindly egomaniac millionaire and have as the leading character a lesbian detective with a understanding psychotherapist lover. Throw in a several pages of art reviews and a ton of psychological mumbo jumbo and we don't need a believable plot. Even for California the plot is ludicrous, the endnotes state "there is a coldly calculating tortuous mind at work", well unfortunately it wasn't writing the plot.
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