Robber's Wine - Paperback

The dead of summer… The first of the dead is wealthy Belle Dumont, who vanished from her home in the Minnesota woods only hours before she was to reveal startling news to her three grown children. The kids and Belle's lover deny any knowledge of this mysterious bombshell, but amateur sleuth Jane Lawless, Belle's old friend, suspects these charming folk of being less than forthright. In fact, Jane suspects coldhearted murder.

Ellen Hart’s seventh Jane Lawless mystery leads Jane and Cordelia deep into family secrets. This compelling page-turner won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Mystery.

Originally published by Seal Press 1996

• Cordelia - one of our favorite sidekicks!
• Book 7 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.

 

Lambda Literary Foundation

Robber's Wine - Winner, Best Lesbian Mystery.

Publisher's Weekly

An absorbing plot … superior.

Crime Time, London

Another assured title from Ms. Hart, who is proving herself to be consistently excellent.

Lambda Book Report

Robber's Wine, replete with the Cordelia-generated humor that suffuses the Jane Lawless series, will intoxicate with its satisfying resolution. Robber's Wine is surely a mystery to be savored.