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	All Books by Val McDermid - Author of : Report for Murder : First Lindsay Gordon Mystery Paperback - 264 pages 2nd edition (June 1998) Spinsters Ink; ISBN: 1883523249 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; Gay journalist Lindsay Gordon (Deadline for Murder, 1997, etc.), based in Glasgow and presently freelancing to eke out a living, makes her debut when longtime friend Paddy Callaghan, a drama teacher at the Derbyshire House Girls' School, gets her a magazine assignment for a story on the school's fund-raising weekend, an event that's part of the schools battle to fend off builder James Cartwright, who wants to buy its athletic fields for residential development. Other weekend guests include novelist/talk-show star Cordelia Brown and famed cellist Lorna Smith-Coupey. As the audience awaits a benefit concert that evening, Lorna is discovered dead-garroted by a cello string in one of the backstage music rooms. In short order, a truculent Inspector Dart has jailed Paddy for the killing, and school head Pamela Overton has authorized Lindsay and Cordelia (lovers at first sight) to try to find evidence to clear Paddy." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada:
	All Books by Val McDermid - Author of : Conferences Are Murder : The Fourth Lindsay Gordon Mystery Paperback - 264 pages Reprint edition (April 1999) Spinsters Ink; ISBN: 1883523303 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; Lindsay Gordon is a former journalist who returns to the United Kingdom to attend a trade union conference that will provide material for her doctoral dissertation. She is not a stranger to these meetings since she used to work as a trade delegate ten years ago. Nothing has changed in a decade. There is hypocrisy, prejudice, sexual harassment and debauchery among the attendants. Somebody is also writing a newsletter that is making accusations on the members of the conference. To make matters worse Tom Jack, a union boss, dies when he falls out of Lindsay's tenth floor hotel room. The police are quick to suspect on Lindsay due to her animosity towards Jack as well as it being her hotel room. In order to clear her name she decides to investigate the death with the help of her lover, Sophie Hartley." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Val McDermid - Author of : Booked for Murder : The Fifth Lindsay Gordon Mystery Paperback - 264 pages 2nd edition (May 2000) Spinsters Ink; ISBN: 1883523370 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; The fifth book in Val McDermid's Lindsay Gordon mystery opens with the "accidental" death in London of bestselling author Penny Varnavides, one of Lindsay's oldest friends. When police learn that the bizarre conditions of Penny's death match those described in the manuscript of her unfinished novel, they arrest Meredith Miller, the long-time lover Penny had recently parted from on bad terms. Reluctantly lured across the Atlantic on the chance of helping Meredith, Lindsay (a crusty but lovable expatriate Brit) meets up with old friends and uses her journalistic expertise (and some old but impressive business cards from her days on a national newspaper) to dig up information." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Val McDermid - Author of : Blue Genes [UNABRIDGED] Audio Cassette unabridged edition (January 2001) Isis Audio; ISBN: 0753106205 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; With her boyfriend dead and her partner wanting her to buy him out, Manchester's toughest private investigator, Kate Brannigan, delves into medical experimentation and the underbelly of the music business in an attempt to save both her professional future and her life." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Claudia McKay - Author of : The Kali Connection :A Lynn Evans Mystery Paperback - 187 pages (March 1994) New Victoria Pub; ISBN: 0934678545 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; An international thriller set in the shadowy and fanatical world of religious cults, where Lynn Evans investigates a suspicious death against a background of stolen antiquities, drug-trafficking, betrayal, romance and murder." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Claudia McKay - Author of : Twist of Lime : A Lynn Evans Mystery Paperback - 200 pages (October 1997) New Victoria Pub; ISBN: 093467888X "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; Series protagonist Lynn Evans is spending part of her vacation in Belize at the archaeological dig of friend Sarah Donovan. Several of Sarah's students help as well, along with the secretive and aloof Ann, who recoils at the sudden appearance of Ed Kelly, a suspiciously greedy alumni sponsor in search of Maya artifacts. Sarah and Lynn track Ann, who disappears, only to find her dead of an apparent snake bite. Police investigate, and Lynn does too, confronting drug agents, hidden identities, and peripatetic hippies." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Franci McMahon - Author of : Night Mare: a Mystery Paperback - 256 pages; 1st edition (September 1, 2001) Odd Girls Pr; ISBN: 1887237143 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Jane Scott seems luckier than most. Inherited money and her profession as a journalist have placed her in a milieu she deeply loves, the world of championship horses. Yet she has reached a dark crossroads, one all too familiar: another lesbian relationship is coming to its predictable end. And the television images of the headline-making death of her parents continue, all these years later, to haunt her. Jane has been investigating a cruel scandal in her world, the theft and/or killing of prized horses for their insurance value. When she accompanies her best friend to evaluate an Arabian horse, Jane knows its price is too cheap--way too cheap. Suddenly, shockingly, she is embroiled in a devastating murder, for which she blames herself. A murder that hurls her into the orbit of a beautiful, wild-spirited mare named Night. A murder that will take her to Montana, and to the ranch of a singular woman who holds the power to penetrate every border of Jane's well-guarded, grieving self." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Claire McNab - Author of : Inner Circle : The 8th Detective Inspector Carol Ashton Mystery Paperback - 192 pages (October 1996) Down There Press; ISBN: 156280135X "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; A new crime thriller featuring Carol Ashton, whose latest task is to stop a militant extremist group before they claim more victims, but how long will it be before she becomes the target of their violent campaign?" Click to buy this book in USA, UK:
	All Books by Claire McNab - Author of : Past Due : The 10th Detective Inspector Carol Ashton Mystery Paperback - 224 pages (October 1998) Naiad Pr; ISBN: 1562802178 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; Detective Inspector Carol Ashton is back, in the tenth installment of this riveting lesbian mystery series. When a reproductive specialist is found murdered, Ashton must follow the bloody trail down a slippery slope of greed, corruption, and murder." Click to buy this book in USA, UK:
	All Books by Claire McNab - Author of : Under Suspicion : The 12th Detective Inspector Carol Ashton Mystery Paperback - 204 pages 1st edition (May 1, 2000) Naiad Pr; ISBN: 1562802615 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; In her 12th outing, Australian Detective Inspector Carol Ashton is sent to train with the FBI in the US. While there, her instructor is murdered, and she is high on the FBI's suspect list. She has to find out why the teacher was murdered to find out who did the evil deed." Click to buy this book in USA, UK:
	All Books by Claire McNab - Author of : Out of Sight Paperback - 240 pages (October 2001) Naiad Pr; ISBN: 1562802682 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; A vicious terrorist group is operating deep within the wild reaches of Australia. Using every ruse in the book, Denise infiltrates the terrorist training camp, knowing that if she is found out, her "comrades" will torture her to death." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Claire McNab - Author of : Accidental Murder Paperback - 220 pages (May 15, 2002) Bella Books; ISBN: 1931513163 "Lesbian Mystery Novels, Lesbian Detectives and Thrillers; In this novel, top Australian cop Carol Ashton tracks the most elusive killer of her career. When people with no obvious connection to each other are dying in what appear to be legitimate accidents, nothing seems amiss, until Carol Ashton receives a call from a private investigator." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Claire McNab - Author of : Death Club : The 13th Detective Inspector Carol Ashton Mystery Paperback - 215 pages (April 27, 2001) Naiad Pr; ISBN: 1562802674 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Loaded with brains, style and megabucks, Australian fashion magnate Gussie Whitlew is used to getting everything she wants. And what she wants is the finest food, the fastest cars, and the most fabulous women. This time her bait is Whitlew Challenge, an exclusive golf tournament carefully designed to lure the world's top female athletes to her private clubhouse. With a lot more at stake than the $1.5 million purse, tension soon flares among players, fans, and just about everyone else. American star Toni Karstares (an out lesbian) and her homophobic rival, Englishwoman Fiona Hawk, are the first to go at it. Then Fiona gets caught up in a very public altercation with her larcenous manager. Before long, so much is going on off the course that even abrasive sports reporter Mandi Fiedler has a hard time keeping her eye on the ball. Until the fairway becomes a killing field and someone sets out to even the score." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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