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A Grave Talent (Hardcover)

by Laurie R. King (Author)
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 310 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur (Feb 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0312088043
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312088040
  • Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.7 x 2.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One Brilliant book, 10 July 2000
By annie@chko.freeserve.co.uk (Newcastle, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Grave Talent (Paperback)
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
This review is from: A Grave Talent (Paperback)
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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4.0 out of 5 stars Synopsis - 1st Kate Martinelli mystery, 13 Nov 2009
This review is from: A Grave Talent (Paperback)
The unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco. A series of shocking murders has occured, each victim a child. 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 strangling a little girl. 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...

A very good start to the series. Well-written and interesting characters - I look forward to reading the next installments.
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