A Grave Talent Author:Laurie R. King Read by Alyssa Bresnahan (Complete and Unabridged) - 14.5 hours (10 cassettes). No. 2 from the series "The World's 30 Greatest Mysteries). — This gripping debut of the Kate Martinelli mystery series won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery, generating wide critical acclaim and moving Laurie R. King into the upper tier of the genre. A string of... more » shocking murders has occurred, each victim an innocent child. For Detective Kate Martinelli, and her seasoned partner, it's going to be a difficult case. Then the detectives receive what appears to be a case-breaking lead: one of the residents of this odd, close-knit colony is Vaun Adams, arguably the century's greatest painter of women - a man, as it turns out, with a sinister secret. For behind the brushes and canvases also stands a notorious felon once convicted of strangling a little girl. To bring a murderer to justice, Kate must delve into the artist's dark past - even it if means losing everything she holds dear.« less