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When well-known television personality Arno Heywood jumps to his death in full drag, the Twin Cities tabloids go wild. Heywood’s neighbors are spooked, and one of Jane Lawless’s old sorority sisters is convinced someone is rifling through her loft.
Dealing with her own personal griefs, Jane reluctantly takes a break from her restaurant to ask a few questions. She quickly discovers that there are secrets a plenty, and someone’s been busy with blackmail. And that someone would like Jane to go away.
Threats escalate to murder, and Jane quickly feels out of her league with the colorful denizens of Linden Lofts. Who else to ask for help but her uninhibited friend, Cordelia Thorn? There are some things even Cordelia can’t handle, however, including a ruthless killer.
Ellen Hart’s sixth Jane Lawless mystery leads Jane and Cordelia into the dangerous intrigues surrounding the private lives of the rich and famous. The Jane Lawless series has accumulated multiple literary awards, including five Lambda Literary awards.
“…(The) brightest of lesbian detective series.”-Booklist (Starred Review)
“Wit, charm and fine writing.” -Library Journal
Winner, Minnesota Book Award, Best Mystery
Dealing with her own personal griefs, Jane reluctantly takes a break from her restaurant to ask a few questions. She quickly discovers that there are secrets a plenty, and someone’s been busy with blackmail. And that someone would like Jane to go away.
Threats escalate to murder, and Jane quickly feels out of her league with the colorful denizens of Linden Lofts. Who else to ask for help but her uninhibited friend, Cordelia Thorn? There are some things even Cordelia can’t handle, however, including a ruthless killer.
Ellen Hart’s sixth Jane Lawless mystery leads Jane and Cordelia into the dangerous intrigues surrounding the private lives of the rich and famous. The Jane Lawless series has accumulated multiple literary awards, including five Lambda Literary awards.
“…(The) brightest of lesbian detective series.”-Booklist (Starred Review)
“Wit, charm and fine writing.” -Library Journal
Winner, Minnesota Book Award, Best Mystery
- Cordelia - one of our favorite sidekicks!
- Book 6 in the series, but these books can be read out of order with only minor spoilers
- A true cozy - long on puzzles and personalities, short on gore.
- The Jane Lawless Mysteries have won five Lambda Literary Awards.
Minnesota Book Award
Faint Praise - Winner, Best Crime Fiction.
Publisher's Weekly
...intelligent and engrossing.
Kirkus
The mysteries pile up so relentlessly that you'll just have to wait to see who gets caught without a seat in the game of murderous chairs...(The) most drolly understated rescue of the heroine from certain death you've ever seen.
Booklist
Hart's fans will rejoice in the sixth Jane Lawless mystery. Fully of wit and wicked deeds, fast pacing and memorable characters, it is the best caper yet...Followers of Lawless will delight in...the promise that this brightest of lesbian detective series burns ever brighter.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The whole series is a must-read for mystery fans who relish contemporary cozies with a brain.
