When theatrical director Cordelia Thorn travels to a small town in Wisconsin for a reunion with her tight-knit college theater troupe, she expects nostalgia, but instead finds a group fractured by old rivalries and deep-seated pain. The gathering is intended as a tough-love intervention for their most famous alumna, an actress spiraling out of control from alcoholism. However, tension turns to terror when one of the former classmates suddenly drops dead at dinner. Suspicious of the circumstances, Cordelia summons her best friend, savvy amateur sleuth Jane Lawless, to investigate. Together, they unravel a complex web of long-buried secrets, past betrayals, and complicated romantic configurations stretching back twenty years to find a killer hiding in plain sight.
Details
| ISBN | 9781878067555 |
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| Series | Jane Lawless Mystery |
| Copyright Date | 1994 |
| Publication Date | September 13, 1994 |
| Publisher | Da Capo Press |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 300 |
| Language | English |
| Notes | A Small Sacrifice (1994) is the fifth installment in Ellen Hart's Jane Lawless mystery series. As an explicit work of lesbian fiction, it features an openly lesbian protagonist—Minneapolis restaurateur and amateur sleuth Jane Lawless—and explicitly details the romantic, sexual, and interpersonal relationships of queer and lesbian characters within the narrative. |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Subject | Lawless, Jane (Fictitious character) - Fiction; Lesbians - Fiction. - Wisconsin; Wisconsin - Fiction; Women Detectives - Fiction. - Wisconsin |