While traveling en route to China via Budapest, independent London-based translator Cassandra Reilly finds her plans derailed when she detours to post-Communist Romania. Arriving at a crumbling, eccentric health spa hotel in Transylvania, Cassandra is quickly drawn into the deep-seated political feuds and historical tensions between the local Hungarian and Romanian factions. When the spa’s disliked, lecherous director is found brutally electrocuted in a mud bath, an elderly American woman is pinned with the crime. Stepping in to investigate, Cassandra navigates a colorful cast of suspects, local vampire lore, and unexpected romantic distractions to uncover the true killer before her passport expires.
Details
| ISBN | 9781878067494 |
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| Series | Cassidy James Mystery |
| Copyright Date | 1994 |
| Publication Date | July 8, 1994 |
| Publisher | Da Capo Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 300 |
| Language | English |
| Notes | Trouble in Transylvania (1993) is a mystery novel by Barbara Wilson (pen name of Barbara Sjoholm). It is an explicit work of lesbian fiction featuring an openly lesbian protagonist, the nomadic globetrotting translator and amateur sleuth Cassandra Reilly, and was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery. |
| Rating | Good |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Subject | Lesbians; Reilly, Cassandra (Fictitious Character); Transylvania (Romania); Transylvanian Alps (Romania); Women Translators |