Crime and Detective Titles

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Author, title, synopsis, catalogue number:

Brown, Judith C.
Immodest Acts: The life of a lesbian nun in Renaissance Italy
A fascinating 17th century detective story based on Abbess Benedetta Carlini. Her ‘visions’ made her represent the angelic spirit, she claimed. An independent woman, silenced, who turned to visions to leave her mark.
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Calloway, Kate
First Impressions
In Cassidy James’ first case as a private investigator she meets the beautiful Erica Trinidad – the chief suspect in a murder investigation. Cassidy must prove Erica’s innocence by finding the real killer of Erica’s rich uncle, but it soon becomes clear that more than one unsolved crime is shattering the tranquillity of the quiet Cedar Hills lakeside, and as Cassidy stays one step ahead of the police, she may be one step too close to the murderer.
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Calloway, Kate
Second Fiddle
At their wit’s end, a gay couple hire private investigator Cassidy James to find out who is blackmailing them to move out of Cedar Ridge. She soon learns that other local residents have received threatening letters. Slowly, Cassidy finds the answers to all of her questions, but will she be tempted to ask one too many?
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Calloway, Kate
Third Degree
Cassidy James suspects that the women of Cedar Hills are being systematically terrorised by an intruder, but none of the victims is willing to go to the police. With the facts in the open, how will she be able to stop the intruder before he stops her?
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Calloway, Kate
Fourth Down
Someone close to Dr Allison Crane is trying to kill the influential doctor. Posing as her new girlfriend, Cassidy James accompanies her to a rustic lesbian retreat in the Oregon wilderness. Whilst romance and lust are soon on the agenda, danger is always lurking just around the corner.
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Calloway, Kate
Fifth Wheel
A killer is abducting young women. Martha Harper follows the clues to a local college, and turns to her best friend, Cassidy, for help. Cassidy poses as a teaching assistant and soon encounters the alluring professor Lauren Monroe. But the more she learns, the more she suspects. Note, there is graphic violence in this book.
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Calloway, Kate
Sixth Sense
The last person P I Cassidy James expects to hear from is her ex-lover. But finally, Cassidy has to put all her anger and hurt aside and meet a Maggie begging for her help. Maggie has just witnessed not one, but two separate, brutal murders. Both victims are connected to clients of hers.
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Calloway, Kate
Seventh Heaven
The savage attack on a close friend propels Oregon Private Eye Cassidy James through a menacing maze of intrigue and betrayal. At first glance, the brutal beating of P.I. Cassidy James’s buddy Tommy Green looks like a botched mugging. But the clues soon lead Cassidy to something infinitely more sinister. Some people very close to her are playing games with human lives… diabolical games that are about to turn deadly. With Tommy in a coma, the only one who can help her crack this dangerous case is the lone witness – her devastatingly beautiful and deliciously seductive ex-lover, Erica Trinidad. Cassidy knows from experience that the only way to keep her head is to stay far away from Erica’s bed. Some things, of course, are easier said than done…
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Calloway, Kate
Eighth Day
Undercover at an isolated reform school for problem teenagers, P I Cassidy James is about to confront the unthinkable. The clues point to a brutal murder – but where is the body? Trying not to let her attraction to a handsome cowgirl divert her attention from the case, Cassidy suspects that the truth lies buried deep within a closely guarded abandoned mine.
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Dreher, Sarah
Stoner McTavish
Sarah Dreher has created in Stoner McTavish a character lesbians can treasure. She’s normal (that is, only mildly neurotic), with a gem of an aunt and a delightful friend in Marylou. On this first adventure she meets the woman of her dreams: except for the slight problem of a husband, Gwen is perfect.
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Dreher, Sarah
Something Shady
A Stoner McTavish mystery set around the disappearance of a woman working in a mental health institution.
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Dreher, Sarah
Bad Company
When Stoner McTavish is called in to investigate a series of minor accidents at an exclusive hotel, it seems the perfect opportunity for an expenses-paid break. But as a vicious game of sabotage begins to unfold, McTavish must confront a killer with a desperate grudge.
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Duffy, Stella
Calendar Girl
South London sleuths Maggie and Saz come together on the trail of a mystery woman known only as September, who shuttles between London and New York in a whirlwind of drug smuggling, gambling and prostitution. When a murder occurs, Maggie and Saz must find the culprit.
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Duffy, Stella
Beneath The Blonde
Saz Martin is hired to protect Siobhan Forrester, lead singer of a band fronted by her boyfriend, but who is now being stalked. The investigation takes Saz from London to New Zealand with plenty of stop-overs, but the excitement is tempered by reality when intimidation turns to murder. And to make life harder for Saz, she isn’t sure she wants to keep the relationship strictly business.
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Forrest, Katherine V
Amateur city
On her second day at a new job, Ellen O’Neil finds one of the company’s executives murdered. Detective Kate Delafield of the LAPD is brought in on the case…
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Forrest, Katherine V.
Murder at the Nightwood Bar
Dory is found dead outside a lesbian bar. Detective Kate Delafield is lead to the gay city of West Hollywood, where she uncovers shocking facts about the brief life of the murdered woman. There is an uncooperative silence from the parents, and hostility from the lesbians who frequent the Nightwood Bar.
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Forrest, Katherine V.
The Beverly Malibu
This is the third Kate Delafield mystery. No-one appears to care when old-time Hollywood film director, Owen Sinclair, is found murdered on Thanksgiving day. As a friendly witness for House of Un-American Activities he betrayed friends and colleagues. But who could have hated him enough to want to watch him die a violent death.
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Forrest, Katherine V.
Liberty Square
Kate Delafield attends the 25th reunion of those who served in Vietnam – an event she’s avoided, to suppress painful memories. Then one of the guests is murdered and she becomes ‘a cop on the inside’.
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Forrest, Catherine V
Apparitian Alley
Kate Delafield investigates the murder of a Los Angeles police officer who was about to reveal some deep, dark secrets.
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forrest, Katherine V
Sleeping Bones
LAPD Detective Kate Delafield has a new iron-willed female lieutenant; a tough new partner who may turn out to be a much-needed ally. This unusual investigation of a pile of bones could uncover the truth of humanity’s ancient past, and, at the same time, expose the corruption and violence of the present.
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Forrest, Katherine V.
Hancock Park
Detective Kate Delafield investigates a homicide in the secluded neighbourhood of Hancock Park, and she has the feeling it’s going to be an unusual case. Her hunch is correct: a cultured, refined mother of three is the last person you’d expect to die by gunshot.
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Foster, Marion
The Monarchs Are Flying
When radio journalist Leslie Taylor is accused of the murder of her ex-lover Marcie, it looks as though her motive for murder is obvious. After all, she’s jealous of Marcies marriage. Even when Harriet Fordham Croft, a successful attorney-at-law ‘with the poise of a model and the memory of a computer’ offers to defend her, Leslie can see no way out. It looks like a cut and dried case. Or is it?
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Kelly, Maggie
Burning Issues
In a genteel seaside resort, an elderly student dies horribly. Her tutor, Mig, pieces together Dulcie’s fragmented writing and the investigation snowballs outside the comfortable, middle class lesbian community. Can Mig, or her relationships, survive, let alone stop the complex network of violence.
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La Favour, Carole
Along the Journey River
When irreplaceable Ojibwa artefacts are stolen from the school on the Red Earth reservation the community turns to Renee de Laroche: a two-spirit whose dreams give her special insights into lives of her people.
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MacDermid, Val
Report for Murder
Lindsey Gordon is a socialist lesbian reporter from Glasgow. She takes a job at the request of a friend who is a teacher at a girls public school in Derbyshire. Lindsey is there to write about a fund-raising gala but, when a famous cellist old-girl is murdered, Lindsey is drawn into an investigation to try and clear her friend’s name.
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McDermid, Val
Dead Beat
The first novel introducing Private Detective Kate Brannigan. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realize that finding Moira is a prelude to murder
261

McNab, Claire
Death Understood
A gripping story about intelligence agent, Denise Cleever’s involvement as she works undercover at the powerful Hiddwing Institute, a right-wing organisation. It’s headed by a brother and sister who are promoting racism in Australian society. They are both attracted to Denise for different reasons. Can she survive the danger she finds herself in?
201

McNab, Claire
Death by Death
Sequel to Death Understood (Cat. 201). Agent Denise Cleever goes undercover when she joins the staff of an exclusive clinic. Patients of charismatic psychiatrist Dr Graham Thorwell are being turned from troubled young people into directed murderers who will kill on command. Can denise unravel the mysteries when both her body and mind are equally under threat.
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Paretsky, Sara
Burn Marks
V I Warshawski investigates what looks like a simple case of arson and uncovers corruption and collusion among Chicago politicians.
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Scott, Manda
Hen’s Teeth
Midnight in Glasgow is a bad time to be faced with a dead body, especially if the body is that of your ex-lover, and the woman grieving at her bedside used to be your friend. For Dr. Kellen Shetward, ex-medic, a simple call for help rapidly twists into a tangled web of deceit.
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Taverner, Jay
Something Wicked
Mourning the loss of her long-time girlfriend (to a man),Scotty,an urban lesbian, seeks rest and recuperation deep in the English countryside. But rumours of witchcraft and child pornography take real and violent shape before Helen, a local librarian,helps our heroine to solve the crimes and reconsider romance.
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Wilson, Barbara
Gaudi Afternoon
Join globe-trotting Spanish translator and amateur detective Cassandra Reilly in this comic thriller set in Barcelona. She gets a call from femme fatale Frankie, whose husband has vanished without trace. Cassandra is soon on the trail of the elusive Ben, as well as the mysterious foot therapist April Schauer, and the sax player reputed to be from Prague.
225

Wings, Mary
She Came Too Late
In the first book of the Emma Victor series, she is drawn into a mysterious death investigation after receiving a call for help to the Women’s Hotline. This is a wicked combination of wit, political intrigue and corruption.
187

Wings, Mary
She Came In A Flash
The 2nd Emma Victor Mystery. Our intrepid heroine is hot on the trail of Lana, her best friend’s Sister: once a high school whizz-kid, now a member of a mysterious yellow-clad cult. But Emma is too late to save Lana, whose body is discovered, not in the transcendental ocean of bliss, but swimming in concrete ankle bracelets in the muddy waters of San Francisco bay…
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Wings, Mary
She came by the book
It’s been 20 years since Emma Victor’s former boss, the flamboyant politician Howard Blooming, was assassinated. Now she’s promised to deliver his private papers and their secrets into safekeeping. The opening of the Howard Blooming Memorial Archive seems to provide her with a golden opportunity, but her mission is soon placed in deadly jeopardy when the chief archivist suddenly succumbs to cyanide poisoning.
138

Wings, Mary
She came to the Castro
A mayoral candidate becomes a target for blackmail – but before Emma Victor can nab him, the culprit turns up dead. Now the election is drawing near, and Emma is the one running for her life.
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Woodcraft, Elizabeth
Good Bad Woman
Frankie Richmond is a London barrister who agrees to defend a friend at a routine hearing and ends up being arrested for a murder she did not commit. Frankie sets out to discover the truth while trying to disentangle her mercurial friendships and meet the woman of her dreams.
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Woodcraft, Elizabeth
Babyface
Barrister Frankie Richmond agrees to defend Danny Richards, who’s been accused of murder. Frankie needs to put her love-life on hold and try to focus on the case if she’s to find out who’s really guilty of the murder – or if there’s even been a murder at all. Sequel to “Good Bad Woman”, Cat. 215
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