Laurie R. King
Laurie R. King
Laurie R. Kingis an American author best known for her detective fiction...
NationalityAlgerian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 September 1952
CountryAlgeria
madness turmoil centre
...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.
phrases wells
Most damning of phrases: He meant well.
husband devil relief
Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?
madness
Eccentricty had flowered into madness.
jamaica wife bedroom
I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.
together stories sometimes
When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.
spring winter gun
. . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . .
aversion machinery exception
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.
expression silent-films plot
In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.
pride pieces poor
Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.
holmes sherlock whenever
Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.