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The Keibence Love
A Standalone Short Story with No Cliffhanger! Andrea Garvey is a 4th year PhD student at a prestigious east coast university. She’s a typical bookworm: solitary, shy, and intensely intelligent. One day in late May the brutal murder of a student amongst the rare books in the Keibence Library rips her quiet life apart. As mystery and rumors about the school’s secret societies engulf the city, Andrea finds herself drawn into the case, and to the stunningly beautiful and ruthless Detective Claire Hunt as she tracks down the killer, suspecting even the most unlikely of librarians. Will Detective Hunt find the murderer, or will the investigation careen out of control, shattering Andrea’s quiet life and innocence forever. All paths lead back the Keibence Library, to the murder scene and the fateful moment that Andrea Garvey and Claire Hunt met. Love and murder intertwine in a story of two women searching for the truth in this mystery. ---- TAGS: Lesbian Romance, FF romance, Lesbian romance novels books, first time lesbian books, true event stories, LGBT romance books, FF romance sex, LGBT romance fiction, New adult romance, Young adult romance, First time lesbian romance
Corpse Call
The car at the bottom of Prentice Lake could not have gotten there accidentally. Max Wendt slumps dead in the front seat with neither a reason to kill himself nor enemies to do it for him. Miles away, Detective Laura McCallister imparts the news that transforms a wife into a heartbroken widow, a ten-year-old boy into a fatherless son. The most she can give them is a promise to learn the truth. But the clues uncovered at the crime scene have little-if anything-to do with Max Wendt. Instead, they point to places far in the past. They point to a blog filled with horror fiction written from the corpse's point of view. They point to a killer willing to risk capture for what seems nothing more tha...
Women of Mystery
Written by the best-known lesbian crime writers, this anthology contains 14 tales of mystery and murder.
Wicked Games
When Jane Lawless takes a new tenant into her house, she has no idea what lies ahead. Jane and Cordelia are drawn deeper into the Beauman's lives, and discover a fundamentally damaged and dysfunctional family with a trail of death in their wake.
Fall Guy
For most people, to know Milton Ryce is to loathe him. Now in his mid-forties, the practical joker has never outgrown the adolescent behavior that amused him so much as a teenager. Embarrassing others has been his favorite past time, and he delights in coming up with elaborate schemes for setting up his “friends” as fall guys. Extremely generous with his money, Milton has bought influence in high places and a circle of well-connected friends and business acquaintances. When he plunges to his death while sky diving, no one seems particularly surprised to find that he was murdered. Detective Inspector Carol Ashton finds a long list of possible murderers—a list that includes family members who are positively jostling for position to be at the top of the list. Then an elaborate practical joke is played out at Milton’s funeral by his son, Ted, and more evidence begins piling up against him. Carol must act quickly to find out if Ted is indeed his father’s killer—or if he is simply being set up as yet another ‘fall guy’…
Cop Out
A family business turns deadly… Bryce Darcy, partner is a highly successful family business, has been brutally murdered. Charlotte Darcy, sister to the victim, has confessed. Open and shut case, Detective Inspector Carol Ashton is informed. Not so, argues Carol’s aunt, friend to the Darcy family. She contends that Charlotte is mentally incompetent. Carol reopens the investigation. Bus she is in personal crisis, close to burnout. Sick of the patriarchal framework of police work, sick of hiding her real lesbian self for the sake of her career. Carol’s lover is not much help—Sybil has found her own direction in a dynamic women’s group. And the loyal Detective Sergeant Mark Bourke is distracted by his interest in the career of a promising female constable new to homicide. Amid her own predicament, Carol finds herself embroiled in a family at war. She discovers that the dead man was a member of a support group for married gay men. And that the Darcy family, blessed with fame and fortune, seethes with secrets: ambiguous parentage, a disgraceful family swindle, fraud, infidelity, attempted drug poisoning. And among the warring Darcys is a pitiless murderer.
Death Down Under
Detective Inspector Carol Ashton returns in the most formidable, baffling and important homicide case of her career… Four women are dead, each strangled with an orange cord, their bodies ritually arranged. Carol and Detective Sergeant Mark Bourke know that this killer, like all serial killers, will be exceedingly difficult to track down. The Australian press has sensationalized the murders, especially the fact that one of the victims was a lesbian. Madeline Shipley, star of The Shipley Report, claims that she has been contacted by the “Orange Strangler.” Adding to the pressures on Carol is her relationship with Sybil Quade, who has grown increasingly restive with its secrecy. And Carol is learning uncomfortable truths about herself from the successful, confident Madeline Shipley. Carol accumulates evidence, putting together clues in her relentless search for the Orange Strangler. And all the while, the killer is drawing closer to her than she dreams…
Lethal Care
Two celebrated writers combine to offer the electrifying conclusion to a legendary mystery series… Detective Inspector Carol Ashton’s promotion to Chief Inspector has immediately ensnared her in two assignments that hold no warning they will forever change her life. She’s inherited the pressurized case of the high-profile death of media star and wealthy philanthropist Greta Denby, who had been undergoing a controversial experimental treatment for her cancer. Carol is now also taking on the case of the investigating officer Inspector Ian Rooke, who has himself just died under baffling circumstances—a demise made more mysterious by the inexplicable shoddiness of his investigation into Greta’s death. In this final chapter, Carol must confront an increasingly dire future and the most formidable challenge of all—her fundamental belief in her career, and in herself. Seventeenth in the Carol Ashton Series.
The Gay Detective Novel
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...
The End of April
A classic example of a superior mystery.
