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Margaret Atwood describes Helen Keremos as "a cross between Lily Tomlin and Philip Marlowe." In this final book in the series, Sonny, a former client from Hong Kong, arrives in Vancouver and Helen agrees to meet him. He's in trouble and doesn't know who's after him or why. At least that's what Sonny says. Despite some nagging apprehensions, Helen decides to help him out. But a kidnapping attempt quickly ensues, forcing our heroine into the midst of a complicated set of crimes.
In a deadly game of multinational terrorism, Helen Keremos searches for a long-lost '60s revolutionary who happens to be the daughter of a right-wing U.S. presidential candidate. Book 2 in the Helen Keremos Mysteries.
The fifth book in a highly successful series, The Butterfly Effect takes detective Helen Keremos to Japan. There she becomes involved in a complex series of crimes that have ramifications from the Far East to Europe and North America.
Helen Keremos, private eye for hire, is tired of the Toronto rat-race and is eager to return to her quiet life on the coast, when she gets pulled into one last job. The newly wealthy - and extremely beautiful - songstress Sonia Deerfield is being blackmailed and threatened, and requests Helen's services as bodyguard and detective.The money's good, and the client isn't so bad to hang around with, so Helen takes the case. Meeting Sonia's inner circle, it's clear that someone close to her isn't as loyal to the singer as she thinks... With her own life now in danger, Helen races against the clock to discover which of Sonia's friends wants her dead, before it's too late for them both.
This is the definitive study of the lesbian private eye novel. It includes a list of every known mystery featuring a lesbian private investigator from the first appearance of Helen Keremos in 1978 through 2020. The book includes a brief discussion about each PI as well as 100 full-length book reviews by the author.
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Edgar- and Agatha-nominated author Colleen Barnett here updates her essential reference for readers and writers of mystery, examining women who detect, women as sleuths, and the evolving roles of women in professions and in society.
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Tough and demanding LAPD Detective Kate Delafield is the leader of the investigation into a highrise office building murder. The case is intriguing but routine—until Kate interviews the only witness, Ellen O’Neil. When Ellen O’Neil took her new job over the objections of her lover, she wasn’t expecting to become embroiled in murder. The curiosity that Kate Delafield rouses is equally unexpected. But it is never far from Ellen’s mind that she is merely a name on an interview sheet to the tight-lipped detective. Kate’s thin trail of clues are enough to convince her that she is looking for an amateur, and amateurs are notoriously unpredictable and dangerous. She finds her path increasingly intersecting with that of Ellen O’Neil, who is proving unpredictable and dangerous in a far more personal way. AMATEUR CITY is the first novel in the compelling Kate Delafield mystery series that has gripped readers all over the world.
Gertrude Stein called it "the only really modern novel form that has come into existence," yet the mystery genre was a century old before it featured its first gay main character in a novel. Since then, gay and lesbian detective fiction has been one of the fastest growing segments of the genre. It incorporates gay and lesbian cultural elements and offers crossover appeal. Its authors call upon a century of development in the mystery genre, while providing new, more accurate images of lesbians and gay men than generally found in mainstream literature and popular media. This groundbreaking study of gay and lesbian detective fiction examines mystery series and historically significant stand-alo...