In this provocative mystery, a lesbian cop enters a world of leather dykes to investigate a murder outside a Denver women’s bar. Author Kate Allen doesn’t back down from sensitive issues in this serious, slyly humorous novel of a new lesbian crime solver.
On a hot summer day in Sydney, Australia, teacher Bill Pagett is murdered. Detective Inspector Carol Ashton investigates, but the case is complicated by her attraction to prime suspect Sybil Quade. The first in the Carol Ashton series.
For years Trudy has driven the lavender cab Number Four, and that’s all she’s done since Georgia left her. With her dog Alex, a home in the trailer park, her Harley motorcycle and enough money to get by, she keeps to a comfortable routine. That’s all blown out of the water one fateful day when she picks up a fare, the beautiful and mysterious, Anita Alvarez. Next thing she knows, the dispatcher at her cab company is killed in cold blood. Looking for answers, Trudy finds herself irresistibly drawn into Anita’s convoluted intrigues of drug running and shady politics. After being shot at Trudy resolves to leave Anita and her problems behind, yet she’s yanked back into the fray one more time. Why?–because somehow, the young vulnerable woman appeals to the working-class hero deep inside Trudy, and if she doesn’t save her, who will?
Detective Inspector Carol Ashton appears fully recovered from a serious gunshot wound. But appearances can be deceptive.Carol is now questioning her most basic commitment – to a career that came close to taking her life.And now she is given a most unwelcome assignment. She must safeguard the abrasive Marla Strickland – the famous American feminist – whose talent for controversy is certain to create headlines during her visit to Australia.Marla, too, is reluctant to accept the necessity of a bodyguard and only the grisly death of one of her staff forces her to accept Carol’s presence.Thrown uneasily together, neither woman has any real sense of the danger that waits for Marla. For a lethal game is in progress, with a group called Wellspring pulling the strings.Marla is their target – but once again, it is Carol in the line of fire.
Either high-powered Toronto lawyer, Harriet Fordham Croft, or her lover Leslie is being stalked by a murder. But why? By whom? Is it Harriet’s ex-husband, whose pride won’t tolerate a relationship between the two women? Is it a hot shot developer whose plans are being thwarted? Or is it someone else? Set in beautifully remote Manitoulin Island and bustling Toronto, this compelling page-turner of a mystery is a delight for lovers of crime fiction.
A Lambda-nominated 1996 crime novel featuring iconic lesbian journalist Lindsay Gordon as she investigates a literary murder within London’s publishing world.
In this fun, page-turner of a novel (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor s mysterious death. Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she s there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace s old friend. She can t bear to ignore the kindly old woman who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can t bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace s death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence. With a kindhearted heroine we all need right now (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author), Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling and delightfully weird reminder that we will one day turn to dust and that yes, this is depressing, but it s also what makes life beautiful (Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl).
Manchester private eye Kate Brannigan has her hands full investigating a bizarre series of white-collar scams involving missing conservatories and fraudulent land deeds. The stakes turn intensely personal when she realizes the sophisticated property racket has ensnared her close friends, lesbian couple Alexis and Chris, threatening their financial security. As Kate digs through layers of crooked lawyers, double-crossing siblings, and forged paperwork, she finds herself up to her neck in a deadly corporate conspiracy where the perpetrators are willing to resort to murder to protect their illicit windfall.
‘This beautifully realized debut delves into the emotions of a girl recovering from drug addiction and grief, all wrapped up in a solid mystery.’ -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Sophie Winters nearly died. Twice. The first time, she’s fourteen, and escapes a near-fatal car accident with scars, a bum leg, and an addiction to Oxy that’ll take years to kick. The second time, she’s seventeen, and it’s no accident. Sophie and her best friend Mina are confronted by a masked man in the woods. Sophie survives, but Mina is not so lucky. When the cops deem Mina’s murder a drug deal gone wrong, casting partial blame on Sophie, no one will believe the truth: Sophie has been clean for months, and it was Mina who led her into the woods that night for a meeting shrouded in mystery. After a forced stint in rehab, Sophie returns home to a chilly new reality. Mina’s brother won’t speak to her, her parents fear she’ll relapse, old friends have become enemies, and Sophie has to learn how to live without her other half. To make matters worse, no one is looking in the right places and Sophie must search for Mina’s murderer on her own. But with every step, Sophie comes closer to revealing all: about herself, about Mina and about the secret they shared.
Meet Gilda. She cannot stop thinking about death. Desperate for relief from her anxious mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local church and finds herself abruptly hired to replace the deceased receptionist, Grace. It’s not the most obvious job – she’s queer and an atheist for starters – and so in between trying to learn mass, hiding her new maybe-girlfriend and conducting an amateur investigation into Grace’s death, Gilda must avoid revealing the truth of her mortifying existence.