Title: Winner of Two Mystery Awards!
Product review: Laurie King's first detective novel won the Edgar for best novel from a new writer and also the Creasey award. "A Grave Talent" is a good place to begin if you've never read a Kate Martinelli mystery and like to read series' in chronological order(and who doesn't?).Inspector Hawkin, Kate's mentor, soon finds that she is smart, tough, and unstoppable. At first he's relieved because she's not the type of woman he's attracted to. When this changes, however, he finds out to his romantic chagrin that she's a lesbian. Oh well, she's still a bang up detective and the two work comfortably together. King develops her characters well. Besides Kate we learn enough about Hawkin to make him interesting, as we do about Kate's partner, and other prominent characters.Kate will need all of her skills to catch the serial killer who is victimizing little girls. Well plotted and with taut construction, this is a page turner!
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