Everything You Have Is Mine by Sandra Scoppettone

Everything You Have Is Mine

Sandra Scoppettone

Private investigator Lauren Laurano makes her funny and suspenseful debut as a sleuth who must take on a rapist, a killer, a tangle of family relationships, her own fears, and New York City itself in order to solve several murders. For the past eleven years she’s lived in Greenwich Village with beautiful, warmhearted psychotherapist, Kip Adams; they bicker playfully and enjoy the urbane company of friends and heady, offbeat Village life.

Lovely, shy Lake Huron has been raped and refuses to talk to the police. But before she can tell Lauren everything she’s found dead, leaving Lauren to decipher a 21st-century clue and a dysfunctional family tree that a good, stiff wind could blow to bits. The closer Lauren gets to the truth, the more her own life is endangered.

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From Publishers Weekly

Lauren Laurano, Manhattan PI and former FBI agent, is 40ish, feisty, quick-witted and gay. In her engaging debut she solves a complicated case that begins with the rape and subsequent murder of a young woman named Lake Huron, who ran a computer dating service. To find out if Lake’s rapist was also her murderer, Lauren must untangle the victim’s knotted family ties and determine why her relatives all lie about their relationships to one another. The threat to Lauren, announced in an attack on her in her office, sparks anxiety and anger in psychotherapist Kip Adams, Lauren’s lover of more than a decade, with whom she shares a Greenwich Village brownstone. Scoppettone ( Some Unknown Person ) evokes palpable Village scenes as Lauren’s search takes her back to the unbridled ’60s, when a fatal legacy of jealousy and deception was spawned. After another murder, the unmasking of several false identities, the mastering of basic PC technology and tense confrontations with Kip, Lauren sets herself up as a decoy to capture rapist and murderer. A lively pace, convincing characterization (Lauren, Kip and their circle of mostly gay friends are especially clearly drawn), colorful scene setting and sensitive observations about complications among families ordinary and unusual far outweigh the overwrought elements of the plot; readers will want to follow Lauren on her next case.

Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Hired to find the second-date rapist of a beautiful New York woman of means, private detective Lauren Laurano (a lesbian with a social conscience) must soon look for the woman’s murderer instead. As she struggles through a sticky web of family relationships to reach the unsuspected killer, Lauren becomes a computer ad dict, jeopardizes her own safety, and reveals a realistic sketch of contemporary life in the Village. The author imbues her concerned heroine–who often refers to other fictional female sleuths–with a certain feckless charm and scatterbrained wit that both endear and entertain. A winning combination.

Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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