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Everyone loves a good mystery novel and these pages are full of them! We've got dashing dyke detectives, cops, private eyes and a whole range amateur sleuths who set out to solve crimes and save the day. If you're looking for a little action in your reading, this is the place to find it!

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	All Books by Randye Lordon - Author of : Sister's Keeper (Stonewall Inn Mysteries) Paperback 1st stonewall edition (May 1996) St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312141343 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; The return of P.I. Sydney Sloane, in the Lambda Literary Award-nominated sequel to the much praised Brotherly Love. Killed in an apparent car accident, Zoe Freeman was a lifelong family friend, someone Sydney Sloane thought she knew well. But when Zoe's apartment is ransacked and it is discovered that she kept a set of duplicate documents under a fake name, Sydney is led to the inevitable conclusion: Zoe was leading a double life." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Randye Lordon - Author of : East of Niece Paperback - 288 pages (June 2002) Stonewall Inn Editions; ISBN: 0312287143 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "New York City private investigator Sydney Sloane has pretty much seen it all - shoot-outs, terrorists, crazed murderers - and survived it all intact. Now she is forced to face her greatest fear, the one thing in the world that she hates the most: vacation. Cajoled by her lover Leslie Washburn into taking a much needed break from New York and the detective business, Sydney reluctantly finds herself in France, intending only to visit with her niece Vickie, lounge in first class hotels, drink champagne, and avoid all semblance of work. But the quiet visit with Vickie isn't to be. In rapid succession, Sydney learns that her niece has married secretly, her husband Gavin's parents were just killed nearby in a suspicious car accident and the police are looking for Gavin who, unfortunately, is nowhere to be found. Thousands of miles from home, in a country where she doesn't speak the language, Sydney finds herself in the midst of a murder investigation. Now it's up to her to find Gavin and unravel the complicated truth surrounding his parent's deaths and his own disappearance. But someone out there doesn't welcome her inquiries in the slightest and time is swiftly running out for all of them." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Lauren Maddison - Author of : Deceptions Paperback - 432 pages (May 15, 1999) Consortium Book Sales & Dist; ISBN: 1555834906 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; Expertly weaving diverse elements of political intrigue, mystery, and Native American folklore, Maddison takes readers on a terrifying journey from the halls of power to the deepest caverns of the Navajo Nation." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Lauren Maddison - Author of : Witchfire Paperback - 392 pages 1 Ed edition Vol 1 (June 1, 2001) Alyson Pubns; ISBN: 1555835953 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; No one knows what the grave robbers were looking for when they violated the grave of Connor Hawthorne's recently deceased grandmother, Gwendolyn. Whatever it was, they didn't find it, but they died trying. Two corpses and a casket full of stones are all that Connor has to go on as she leaves her home in Santa Fe, N.M. for Glastonbury, England, with Laura Nez, the courageous Navajo guide who saved her life in the high desert of New Mexico at the end of Deceptions, the first Connor Hawthorne Mystery. But Connor, an ex-district attorney turned crime novelist who is no stranger to mystery and danger, is scant prepared for the family secrets that come tumbling out of the past and threaten to engulf not only her, but everyone she loves. From modern England to the mists of ancient Avalon, Witchfire weaves a thoroughly contemporary tale of murder and danger tied to an ancient and powerful secret. As she did in Deceptions, Lauren Maddison once again blends thriller fiction with mythology and lets it build to a heart-pounding conclusion. Connor Hawthorne will face her ultimate enemy, and the outcome will require more than gunplay." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jackie Manthorne - Author of : Deadly Reunion : A Harriet Hubbley Mystery Paperback (July 1995) Gynergy Books/Ragweed Pr; ISBN: 0921881320 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; IN Deadly Reunion , her second mystery featuring the lesbian sleuth Harriet Hubbley, Jackie Manthorne not only demonstrates that she is prolific but also nudges her unconventional heroine gently towards the mainstream. Harriet's return to Spruce Bay, Nova Scotia, for her high-school reunion is complicated by her reluctance to reveal her sexual orientation in her home town -- and by her annoyance at the prospect of concealing it. Still agonizing over her lover Judy's desire for an "open" relationship, she herself quickly -- and quite explicitly, family-valuers be warned -succumbs to the charms of a former classmate she once admired from the closet. As she uncovers a morass of sexual entanglements leading to a killer, she also learns that almost everyone has known her secret all along." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jackie Manthorne - Author of : Sudden Death : A Harriet Hubbley Mystery Paperback - 192 pages (June 1997) Gynergy Books/Ragweed Pr; ISBN: 0921881436 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; Canadian Lesbian Sleuth Series" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Alex Marcoux - Author of : Back to Salem Hardcover - 336 pages (October 2001) Harrington Park Pr; ISBN: 1560232242 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; Jessie Mercer has it all—fame, fortune, and a best-selling novel being made into a major motion picture starring the alluring Taylor Andrews. When disturbing, real-life events begin mimicking the movie's plot, Jessie and Taylor find themselves drawn into a cosmic web of passion, treachery, and deception that began centuries ago! As the terror mounts, Jessie realizes she is the target and must go back—all the way back to Salem, where answers to the mystery unfold—before the evil from the past destroys her!" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jean Marcy - Author of : Mommy Deadest Paperback - 200 pages (October 1, 2000) New Victoria Pub; ISBN: 1892281120 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; Murder Mystery - This, the third Meg Darcy mystery, investigates the murder of a headmistress' mother." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jean Marcy - Author of : Cemetery Murders : A Mystery Paperback - 200 pages (May 1997) New Victoria Pub; ISBN: 0934678839 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; Meg Darcy is single, lonely, working-class, lesbian, and a private investigator enamored with Sarah, the attractive and aloof City Police nicknamed "The Ice Queen". Meg's gay comrade-in-arms, Patrick, says she's a classic closet case, and definitely not one for Meg to crack. But the opportunity comes as their paths cross at the St. Louis cemetery where a serial killer has dumped the bodies of homeless women. Conflict and competition dominate their interactions, particularly their erotic entanglement, as both Meg and Sarah strive to be the first to find the killer." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jean Marcy - Author of : Dead and Blonde : A Meg Darcy Mystery Paperback - 224 pages (November 1998) New Victoria Pub; ISBN: 0934678987 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; Like some TV mystery movie, Dead and Blonde starts out with a promisingly grisly murder, proceeds to lots of clue gathering, and has a rousing chase in it--on foot through a crowded produce market at dawn. Its strong thread of romance has private investigator Meg Darcy atwitter over ice-queen cop Sarah Lindstrom, in whose bed Sarah's ex, Vivian, has been brutally slaughtered. Since the woman she loves is in jeopardy as bait for the culprit, Meg hunkers down as Sarah's protector, sleeping alone on the couch amid many mixed messages, much to her disappointment. Eventually, Meg and loyal gay sidekick Patrick capture the sicko-creep murderer." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jean Marcy - Author of : A Cold Case Of Murder Paperback: 200 pages ; (August 15, 2002) New Victoria Pub; ISBN: 189228118X "Mystery/Thriller; The Latest Meg Darcy Mystery Novel - What looks like a simple adoption query turns ugly when PI Meg Darcy begins to probe, and finds that a young mother's death is still unsolved after eight years. Just who killed the teenage mother and left her body frozen in a rubbish pile? And what happened to her baby?" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Melanie McAllester - Author of : The Lessons Paperback - 227 pages (April 1994) Spinsters Ink; ISBN: 0933216998 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; A suspense thriller in which Elizabeth 'Tenacity' Mendoza and her team investigates a series of rapes directed at lesbians, taking place along the Californian coast." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Val McDermid - Author of : Common Murder : The Second Lindsay Gordon Mystery Paperback - 250 pages 2nd edition (October 1995) Spinsters Ink; ISBN: 1883523087 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; Lesbian reporter Lindsay Gordon goes to cover the long protest of a cruise missile base by a British women's peace encampment and finds there an attractive ex-lover who is accused of murder, not to mention routine assaults and an official cover-up." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Val McDermid - Author of : Deadline for Murder : The Third Lindsay Gordon Mystery Paperback - 264 pages 2nd edition (April 1997) Spinsters Ink; ISBN: 1883523176 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; This mystery, part of the popular Lindsay Gordon series, is set in Glasgow, Scotland. Author Val McDermid, who grew up in a Scottish mining community, captures the sharp, colorful dialects of characters who live in newly renovated yuppie flats, low rent dives, and everything in between. On her way to solve the mystery of one friend's murder and another's conviction for the same, scrappy, soft-hearted journalist Lindsay Gordon learns a thing or two she didn't expect--or want-- to learn about the complications of lesbian love." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada:

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