Mystery
GOODBYLS
CATILINA'S
HALLOWED MURDER
A JANE LAWLESS MYSTERY
Ellen Hart
HALLOWED MURDER
As the icy cold begins to grip the Twin Cities, lesbian restaurant owner Jane Lawless and her eccentric sidekick Cordelia Thorn are caught up in a spiraling chain of events centering on a university sorority. Allison Lord, a popular Kappa Alpha Sigma member with a secret, is killed, and the murderer continues to stalk the house amid charges of theft, lesbianism, and religious dogma-
tism.
Ballantine
Paperback $4.99
DEATH BY CRYSTAL
A JOHANNAH WILDER MYSTERY Agnes Bushell
Continues the series of the Portland, ME-based lesbian detective team Wilson and Wilder. A man has been found dead, killed with a large amethyst crystal, in the studio of a gay activist artist. In their search for the evidence that will keep the artist out of jail, the detectives confront the DEA, drug cartels, town government, and locals out for their own good. Astarte Shell Press
Paperback $8.95
GOBLIN MARKET CAITLIN REECE MYSTERY Lauren Wright Douglas
Who is sending Laura Neal photos from her past-photos cut and pasted into a gruesome jigsaw puzzle?
Laura's lover hires PI Reece to find out. Caitlin's friend Gray Ng isues her a warning about the case, revolving around goblin-like monsters in human form. When Laura disappears, Caitlin discovers her friend's intuition may be coming true.
Najad Paperback $9.95
CAST IN DOUBT Lynne Tillman
Horace, a gay writer of crime novels, looks for mystery and amusement wherever he can find it. From the moment Helen appears, she becomes an object of fascination to the ever-curious Horace. When she suddenly disappears, he must, like his fictional characters, shift through the fragmentary evidence left behind to uncover her whereabouts.
Serpent's Tail Paperback $12.99
ARMS OF NEMESIS Steven Saylor
The follow up to Roman Blood. The overseer of a great villa has been killed and all the evidence seems to point to two slaves believed to have run off to join Spartacus. All the slaves in the house will be killed unless the two are caught.Gordianus the Finder must search for the slaves and find the master's killer. Ivy Books Paperback $4.99
EDGE CITY Sin Soracco
Reno is a woman with the kind of talented fingers that can get a person into big trouble with law. Fresh out of the joint, she's doing her best to stay "straight," but that's no breeze when you're broke. Soon she's hustling for tips as a cocktail waitress and scoping out a low-rent scene that makes jail look like a vacation. Plume
Paperback $10.00
ONLY LAWYERS DANCING Jan McKemmish
An intricately woven mystery that tells the tale of two women friends and their obsessive relationship with crime: Anne, a policeman's daughter who abandons her career as a psychoanalyst to become a criminal attorney, and Frances, a lesbian photographer, cafe artist, and daughter of a crime boss.
Cleis Press
Paperback $9.95
LONG GOODBYES A VIRGINIA KELLY MYSTERY Nikki Baker
Home for Christmas and a high school reunion, Virginia must deal with buried ghosts and resurfaced passions. Rosalee, her first love, exhibits new interest; so does a classmate renamed Spike, who determinedly pursues her. A former teacher's wife dies in a mysterious drowning, and now someone else is about to die... Naiad
Paperback $9.95
THE PRINCIPAL CAUSE OF DEATH Mark Richard Zubro
The high school principal is dead, and teacher Tom Mason found the body. Since Tom had an angry fight with the victim an hour earlier, he is a prime suspect. And an angry student now claims to have seen Tom near the scene at the time of the murder. When he is attacked by this same student, Tom begins to wonder what role the teen played in the death, and why various faculty members feared and hated the dead man. St. Martin's Press Paperback $8.95
TROUBLE IN TRANSYLVANIA Barbara Wilson
Cassandra Reilly has taken to the road again, this time to China where chance encounters on a train lead her to a crumbling health spa in Transylvania. When murder strikes, Cassandra is called to investigate. With her usual humor and aplomb, she tackles mud baths, electrical wiring, ethnic rivalries, vampires, the Romanian police, and the religion of the Great Goddess in her hilarious search for the truth, love, and eternal life. Seal Press
Hardback $18.95
ECLIPSE OF THE HEART Ronald Tierney
Meet Zachary Grayson, a seemingly passionless middleaged gay San Franciscan who makes a living writing trendy cookbooks. During idle chatter at an intimate dinner party, he is asked what he would kill for. The answer he gives turns out different than the one he gives on a trip to Mexico, where his carefree holiday becomes a lifechanging odyssey of love, humor, deceit, and murder. Thomas Dunne Book Hardback $18.95
FACE ON THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR Stan Cutler
Rayford Goodman is over 50 and over 200 lbs. He's a tough guy has-been who misses the Hollywood era when men were men. Mark Bradley is hip, gay, and headed for the top. In the meantime, he pays the rent by writing astold-to biographies. But when he arrives to interview his latest subject, he finds the fellow dead, and the hapless Goodman under arrest for the murder. Signet Paperback $4.50
CATILINA'S RIDDLE Steven Saylor
Gordianus leaves behind Rome and moves to the countryside. His longtime patron, Cicero, has achieved Rome's highest elected office and asks Gordianus's help in watching a rival named Catilina. As he is drawn deeper into political intrigue, a corpse without a head appears in his stables, further complicating matters, and confronting him with the mystery of his career. St. Martin's Press Hardback $22.95
SOLITARY TWIST Elizabeth Pincus
Sleuth Nell Fury is back! She meets Christa on a flight to San Francisco and is asked to do a background check on the bridegroom of her ex-lover, Ellen, before the wedding. When Ellen is kidnapped and Christa disappears, it becomes obvious that nobody is quite who they seem, and Nell must untangle the twisted plot before someone gets hurt. Spinsters Ink Paperback $9.95
BROTHERLY LOVE Randye Lordon
Lesbian PI Sydney Sloane has always had a troubled relationship with her brother. When he was reported killed in an explosion 15 years ago, she wasn't sure it wasn't just a con. Now, she finds herself staring at the photo of an escaped murderer who she is sure is her brother David. She begins to investigate, and finds herself in the middle of a tangled web of deceit. St. Martin's Press Hardback $18.95
Horror
LOST SOULS
Poppy Z. Brite
They are the children of the night, dressed in black, adrift without an anchor, looking for love, acceptance, and meaning in their lives. One of them, Nothing, discovers his true name on the handwritten note that was pinned to his baby blanket 18 years ago. The name sings in his blood, telling him he is a vampire and the son of a vampire, and that he must discover his true nature and find the place where he too can belong. Dell Paperback $4.99
Hampire Companion
ANNE RICE'S
THE VAMPIRE GERONHOLES
THE VAMPIRE COMPANION THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO ANNE RICE'S VAMPIRE
CHRONICLES Katherine Ramsland Spanning all four novels, this book goes behind the scenes to illuminate one of the most popular and influential supernatural sagas ever written. All of the immortal characters are annotated and analyzed in this vibrant, invaluable view into Anne Rice's dark realm. Ballantine Hardback $29.95
DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS LESBIAN VAMPIRE STORIES Pam Keesey These stories will get under your skin, piercing with tales of desire so sharply erotic you'll swear you've been bitten. Cleis Press Paperback $9.95
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