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What seemed to be a harmless reunion of theater friends from college turns out to be anything but, and Cordelia Thorn’s reaction to tragedy is to call in her old friend Jane Lawless.
Soap opera star Diana Stanwood is the Shevlin Underground’s biggest success, but the other five members of the troupe are deeply concerned about her life-threatening alcoholism. Trying to save Diana stirs memories—and secrets. When one of their own drops dead, the circumstances have Jane as worried as Cordelia.
True to their friendship, Jane and the wise-cracking Cordelia follow their hunches, leading them into the not-so-carefree past and back to the troubled present, where they find a single match could blow up all their lives.
Ellen Hart’s fifth Jane Lawless mystery follows the twists and turns of elusive lives to what The Best of New Writers called, “An ingenious solution.” The Jane Lawless series has accumulated multiple literary awards, including five Lambda Literary awards.
“An absorbing plot … superior.”-Publisher’s Weekly
Winner, Lambda Literary Award, Best Mystery
Winner, Minnesota Book Award, Best Crime Fiction
Soap opera star Diana Stanwood is the Shevlin Underground’s biggest success, but the other five members of the troupe are deeply concerned about her life-threatening alcoholism. Trying to save Diana stirs memories—and secrets. When one of their own drops dead, the circumstances have Jane as worried as Cordelia.
True to their friendship, Jane and the wise-cracking Cordelia follow their hunches, leading them into the not-so-carefree past and back to the troubled present, where they find a single match could blow up all their lives.
Ellen Hart’s fifth Jane Lawless mystery follows the twists and turns of elusive lives to what The Best of New Writers called, “An ingenious solution.” The Jane Lawless series has accumulated multiple literary awards, including five Lambda Literary awards.
“An absorbing plot … superior.”-Publisher’s Weekly
Winner, Lambda Literary Award, Best Mystery
Winner, Minnesota Book Award, Best Crime Fiction
- Cordelia - one of our favorite sidekicks!
- Book 5 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.
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Lambda Literary Foundation
A Small Sacrifice - Winner, Best Lesbian Mystery.
Minnesota Book Award
A Small Sacrifice - Winner, Best Crime Fiction.
Publisher's Weekly
An absorbing plot … superior.
Wilson Library Bulletin/The Best of New Writers
Hart creates an outstanding setup in this novel. From the group's sexual tensions, philosophic differences, and past angers, we grasp the many motives for murder. But from the friends' evident love, we believe none could have done it. To this dilemma, Hart finds an ingenious solution.
Lambda Book Report
Kathleen DeBold - November, 1994: Ellen Hart's finely crafted fifth Jane Lawless mystery centers on Jane's sarcastic sidekick Cordelia Thorne. Cordelia and her friends Orson, Theo, Diana, Annie, and Curt made up a college theater clique known as "the Shelvin Underground." The story begins with a flashback to the spring of 1972 when they discovered a bag of human bones in the back seat of Orson's car and Theo was arrested for impersonating an IRS man. Now, more than 20 years later, the Shelvin Underground is reunited for an alcoholic intervention to save the life of Diana, now a famous lesbian thespian.
