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|title=Touchstone

|author=Laurie R King

|publisher=Allison & Busby

|date=August 2013

|website=http://www.laurierking.com/

|summary=A wonderfully created novel, in which the quality of the writing far outshines the quality of the story. However, it's well enough written to be worth plugging on with.

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Laurie R King may be best known for her Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series, but she has also written a number of other novels, a couple of which feature detective Harris Stuyvesant. With the publication of the second in this series, the first ''Touchstone'', originally published in 2008, has been republished, allowing those readers new to Stuyvesant, or even to King herself, to become properly acquainted.

In ''Touchstone'', Laurie R. King has shown that she is indeed a very talented writer when it comes to coming up with an idea and for putting that down on paper and that the list of awards she has were well deserved. However, it does seem that her pacing needs a little work, as what was a story that started with a bomb had a little too long a fuse and turned out to be a bit flat. ''Touchstone'' had all the ingredients for an explosive read, but King’s gunpowder got a little wet."

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