With Child (26 page)

Homicide detectives Kate Martinelli and Al Hawkin first appeared in
A Grave Talent
. Now they are back to investigate the death of a man whose cremated remains are found in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Implicated in the death is Erasmus, a wandering soul and latterday Shakesperean Fool.

Reluctant to take on another high-profile case, Kate is too intrigued to walk away. As she begins to untangle the web of secrecy Erasmus has woven around his former life, she starts to doubt his guilt. But Erasmus will say nothing to point the investigation away from himself, and Kate must not only prove one man's innocence, she must also nail the real killer.

"
To Play the Fool
is quite wonderful"

ISBN

Boston Globe

Kate Martinelli, a newly promoted Homicide detective with a secret to conceal, and Alonzo Hawkin, a world-weary cop trying to make a new life in San Francisco, could not be more different, but are thrown together to solve a brutal crime - the murders of three young girls.

As Martinelli and Hawkin get nearer to a solution, they realize the crimes may not be the sexually motivated killings they had seemed, and that there is a coldly calculating and tortuous mind at work which they must outmanoeuvre if they are to prevent both further carnage and the destruction of a shining talent...

"If there is a new P.D. James... I would put my money on Laurie R. King"

Boston Globe

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