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Original Title:	To Play the Fool
ISBN:	0553574558 (ISBN13: 9780553574555)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.laurierking.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/califia-excerpt.pdf
Series:	Kate Martinelli #2
Characters:	Kate Martinelli, Al Hawkin, Brother Erasmus
Setting:	San Francisco, California(United States)

To Play the Fool (Kate Martinelli #2)

Laurie R. King

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 286 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 3766 Users | 210 Reviews

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Title	:	To Play the Fool (Kate Martinelli #2)
Author	:	Laurie R. King
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Crime Line
Pages	:	Pages: 286 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1996 by Bantam Books (first published February 1st 1995)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Mystery Thriller

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When a band of homeless people cremate a beloved dog in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the authorities are willing to overlook a few broken regulations. But three weeks later, when the dog's owner gets the same fiery send-off, the SFPD has a real headache on its hands. The autopsy suggests homicide, but Inspector Kate Martinelli and her partner, Al Hawkin, have little else to go on. They have a homeless victim without a positive ID, a group of witnesses who have little love for the cops, and a possible suspect, known only as Brother Erasmus, who is certainly articulate, but difficult to understand.
Erasmus, Kate learns, is well-acquainted with the park's homeless and with the rarefied atmosphere of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, yet he is an enigma to all. He has a genius for blending with his surroundings, yet he stands out wherever he goes. He is by no means crazy—but he is a fool.  Kate begins the frustrating task of interrogating a man who communicates only through quotations. Trying to learn something of his history leads her along a twisting road to a disbanded cult, long-buried secrets, the thirst for spirituality, and the hunger for bloody vengeance.

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Laurie King is a goddess.

A clever, well written, more than "just" a mystery story. Brother Erasmus (view spoiler)[a k a David Sawyer, professor turned homeless Fool (hide spoiler)] is an intriguing, endearing character, and his story broke my heart. In a way, I would have wanted the murder mystery to be left out, and the story of Brother Erasmus to be the main focus of the book. Very rarely we get to read about homeless people, and when we do, they are usually there to serve as freakish details and/or as victims.

Once again I find a book in this series difficult to rate.Subtly, this book was better than the previous one. The author shows more of the personal life of Casey and her girlfriend, as well as introduces a mild drama when lets the reader know that Casey's partner eventually became paraplegic after the confrontation of the previous book.However, almost at the end of the book, the story went boring. No excitement in the investigation, just long and boring conversations about religious academic

I liked this better at the end than while reading it. I don't know, Kate Martinelli's personality somehow doesn't catch my interest...I have read others in the series and can't remember them at all.However, Brother Erasmus was an interesting character and his back story certainly made his choice to be "foolish" comprehensible - he was a moving character in many ways, and the use of quotations from St. Francis of Assisi at the beginning of each chapter set up a parallelism. I had mixed feelings

To Play the Fool is the second of a series of mystery novels by Laurie King that feature the San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli. The first book, A Grave Talent, was an Edgar Award winner.This book picks up about a year after the first, and finds Martinelli and her partner Al Hawken investigating the death of a homeless man in Golden Gate Park. There are no witnesses or evidence, but an enigmatic old man called Brother Erasmus who speaks only in quotations becomes a prime suspect.



I enjoyed how the idea of The Fool was incorporated into the story, not only for character that was so identified but also in reference by other characters.