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The Art of Detection
by Laurie R. King
from Recorded Books

Features:

• Audiobook
• Unabridged

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Excellent procedural, not a thriller
  This is my first Laurie R. King book; in general, it was a pleasure to read. The mystery was a real mystery comprised of several different puzzles: Why had the victim been killed; why had his body been put where it was found; what was the motive for the killing? All these and other questions about the crime start to pile up as the detective goes through a number of avenues of investigation until the final confrontation with the killer.
  The spirit of Sherlock Holmes inhabits the book (occasionally), and... more info

• Missed the target
  I have read and loved all of the Kate Martinelli mysteries, until this one. It went well until the "Sherlock Holmes" manuscript was wedged in. After that, the book became dull and predictable, with the only bright spot being at the very end, when Kate and her partner Lee were whisked off to city hall for an impromptu wedding.

• disappointing
  After reading the Beekeepers Apprentice, I was eager to experience Laurie King's other works, but The Art of Detection was a big disappointment when I "read" it via an audio version. It started out slowly and with a vast mass of dull research material regarding San Francisco harbor fortifications and descriptions of the Sherlockian victim's home - the former was (as I feared) never very relevant to the story. While the story got going with the "story within the story" a possibly original Sherlock Holmes in... more info

• What a relief!
  I really love both the Martinelli and Russell/Homes series, but I found the last Martinelli outing disappointing. It was a great pleasure to see Kate back in grand form, with the added deliciousness of the Russell/Holmes tie-in. I love watching Kate deal with the peculiarities of reenactors and the "is it real or is it fake" manuscript market -- a nice change from more typical urban violence
  While I agree that the pace is slower in this plot than is typical for this series, I didn't find that the... more info

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