Laurie King lives with her family in the hills above Monterey Bay in northern California. Her background includes such diverse interests as Old Testament theology and construction work, and she has been writing crime fiction since 1987. The winner of the Edgar, the Nero, and the John Creasey awards, her most recent novel is Folly.

‘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 (on THE BEEKEEPER’S APPRENTICE)‘A novel which challenges the cliches of history’Indpendent (on A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN)‘King’s novel is civilized, ingenious and engrossing’Literary Review (of THE BEEKEEPER’S APPRENTICE)

Laurie King lives with her family in the hills above Monterey Bay in northern California. Her background includes such diverse interests as Old Testament theology and construction work, and she has been writing crime fiction since 1987. The winner of the Edgar, the Nero, and the John Creasey awards, her most recent novel is Folly.

‘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 (on THE BEEKEEPER’S APPRENTICE)‘A novel which challenges the cliches of history’Indpendent (on A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN)‘King’s novel is civilized, ingenious and engrossing’Literary Review (of THE BEEKEEPER’S APPRENTICE)

Laurie King lives with her family in the hills above Monterey Bay in northern California. Her background includes such diverse interests as Old Testament theology and construction work, and she has been writing crime fiction since 1987. The winner of the Edgar, the Nero, and the John Creasey awards, her most recent novel is Folly.

‘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 (on THE BEEKEEPER’S APPRENTICE)‘A novel which challenges the cliches of history’Indpendent (on A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN)‘King’s novel is civilized, ingenious and engrossing’Literary Review (of THE BEEKEEPER’S APPRENTICE)