Laurie King is a third-generation native of San Francisco, but since her marriage to an Anglo Indian professor she has lived briefly on five continents. She and her husband have two children. They live mostly in California.

‘Crime fiction’s most unlikely but utterly credible romance… Laurie King is the most interesting writer to emerge on the American crime fiction front in recent years’Val McDermid (of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice)‘An inventive variation on the Sherlock Holmes myth’Time Out

Laurie King is a third-generation native of San Francisco, but since her marriage to an Anglo Indian professor she has lived briefly on five continents. She and her husband have two children. They live mostly in California.

‘Crime fiction’s most unlikely but utterly credible romance… Laurie King is the most interesting writer to emerge on the American crime fiction front in recent years’Val McDermid (of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice)‘An inventive variation on the Sherlock Holmes myth’Time Out