Book completed

[eve_prime]

Back to the Garden, by Laurie R. King. In addition to the Mary Russell (and Sherlock Holmes) books that I enjoy so much, I’ve also enjoyed her Kate Martinelli books, about a lesbian police detective in San Francisco who solves rather darker and more realistic crimes. LRK decided Martinelli would be too old now, so she’s created a new lesbian police detective in San Francisco named Raquel Laing. Laing is trying to get a dying serial killer to identify all of his cold case victims, when a possible new victim is identified on a very fancy estate that had also spent four years as a hippie commune. It really wasn’t as stressful as some of the Martinelli books, but it was still pretty intense (since LRK really knows what she’s doing), so I made a point to finish it all in one day. (I don’t care for dark, creepy, things to sit there unresolved in the back of my mind over a span of several days.)

Comments

[kaishin108]

"(I don’t care for dark, creepy, things to sit there unresolved in the back of my mind over a span of several days.)"

How true!

I love mysteries except for serial killers and kidnapping. :D :D

[eve_prime]

I can deal with those topics, I guess, as long as I don't have to be in the bad person's head, but what upsets me too much is when the victims are children. And that happens in (I think) the first of the Kate Martinelli books, which is why I haven't bought them for rereading, even though I liked them overall.

[kaishin108]

Yes! The worst is when children are involved in awful crimes, shudder!

[eve_prime]

Indeed.