What do You think about With Child (1997)?
I enjoyed With Child, although it didn't really feel like a mystery to me. It's more a novel about Kate Martinelli.True, Kate spends the first chunk of the book investigating a missing boy, but that isn't the focus of the book. It's really more about Kate's relationship with Jules, as well as Kate's search to figure things out.Overall, I enjoyed the book, particularly that (view spoiler)[Jules is found alive at the end. It would have been terribly sad to find her dead, and I'm glad that she was alive, especially after spending so much time getting to know Jules. (hide spoiler)]
—Kate
Great Laurie R King!I have been reading King for years - but the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, not the Kate Martinelli books. I started with the first one of the series, A Grave Talent, followed by To Play the Fool and now by this one ... With Child. The main character, Kate Martinelli, is an experienced San Francisco police officer in the mid 1990*s who has just been transferred to Homicide in the first book of the series.But as with all the Laurie R King books that I have read , these are so richly written that I become enthralled before the third page. We have a complex plot, which is threaded through the book. Wrapped around that are the main characters Kate, her police partner Al, her personal partner, Lee, and all their relationships and then we have yet another character which is the setting itself, San Francisco.All these threads are neatly and subtlely wrapped together into a strong cord (and chord!) that leaves the reader wanting to know more about the people and places.I highly recommend this entire series. While each book stands on its own as far as the crime that is the particular plot, you will want to start at the first one and work your way through for the pure pleasure of getting to know the characters and the pure pleasure of reading. If you think I am big fan of Laurie R King, you are right.
—Linda S Adams
