Claire McNab

Love stories. Detective and mystery stories. Please note this is a Lesbian title. 0n a hot summer day at Bellwhether High School in Sydney, Australia, teacher Bill Pagett lies murdered, the hole in his head accomplished with neat efficiency by a Black & Decker drill. Detective Inspector Carol Ashton investigates, bringing with her a formidable reputation for competence. She soon uncovers tangled relationships and motives for murder among the six teaching staff, along with a maze of malicious anonymous letters and threatening phone calls. And then there is yet another corpse. Carol's investigation is further complicated by the flashfire attraction between herself and prime suspect Sybil Quade. Carol fights her desire, knowing its potential to compromise her investigation. Nor does Sybil welcome an "unnatural" obsession with the alluring woman who is inexorably gathering the evidence to convict her of multiple murder.

Lessons in Murder

Is Carol playing into a killer’s plan? A series of random deaths suddenly fall into a pattern when reclusive, eccentric billionaire Thurmond Rule dies, leaving an immense estate, but no valid will. With no close relatives—Rule’ s son and only heir vanished mysteriously years before—the search begins to find more distant kin who may have a claim to the Rule billions. And there would be several more applicants vying for the money, but for the disturbing fact that many of them have recently died or been killed. Detective Inspector Carol Ashton speculates that one among the remaining would-be heirs could be responsible for thinning the field so drastically but is baffled that a killer would draw such oblivious attention to themselves. As the authorities contemplate protecting anyone with a blood link to Thurmond Rule, Carol fears she may be unwittingly shielding a killer and playing into a deadly plan… With another in the phenomenally successful Detective Carol Ashton Mystery series, Claire McNab again proves why she is the most popular writer of lesbian mysteries with this suspenseful story of cat and mouse.

Blood Link

The 15th Carol Ashton mystery from the best-selling Australian writer Claire McNab. In this instalment our top Australian cop tracks a brazen killer.

The 15th Detective Inspector Carol Ashton Mystery

Two women, from different continents, with different values, collide with spectacular results. American Lee Paynter has built her small travel agency into an international tour company. Brash, openly lesbian, her great love is her business. Alexandra Findlay is pursuing a career in Australian tourism with quiet focus and determination. Now Alex has been assigned to accompany Lee on on her visit Down Under. Suddenly Alex's quiet life explodes...And Lee is challenged by a woman unlike any she has ever known.

Under the Southern Cross

Victoria Woodson, a highly regarded associate professor at a Sydney university, is an authority on erotic writing of the Victorian era. Her passion for this literature amply compensates, she believes, for the unfulfilling male relationships she has dropped from her life. A savvy commercial publisher has pounced on a book Victoria intended for an academic audience. Victoria is shocked and disconcerted to see The Erotic Muse become a world-wide bestseller. Reyne Kendall, an experienced and award-winning journalist, is assigned to do an in-depth feature on the woman behind the bestseller. Victoria dreads the sort of aggressive, probing person Reyne is likely to be. Her misgivings prove to be more than correct. Reyne is self-made, irreverent and tough, and has little respect for the cloistered world of academia which is Victoria's sanctuary. Reyne brings one other volatile ingredient--she is boldly out as a lesbian.

Silent Heart

When the father she never knew dies and leaves her 51% of his Los Angeles-based private agency, Aussie dyke Kylie Kendall is America-bound, but her father's former business partner, the beautiful, enigmatic Arianna Creeling, gives her a decidedly chilly reception. Best-selling mystery novelist Claire McNab launches her newest series with a bang in the City of Angels, which has turned out to be much more difficult and dangerous than Kylie had imagined.

A Kylie Kendall Mystery

The Wombat Strategy

Death Down Under

After a tumultuous investigation that ended with a surprising and welcome new relationship, Detective Inspector Carol Ashton seems settled. Though she is in the closet to protect her career, life with Sybil is good - until the call that pulls Carol back to the woman who left her three years ago by returning to her husband. But now Christine's husband is dead and she's desperate for Carol's help. Though not assigned to the case, Carol agrees. Quickly drawn into Christine's world of high spending and low values, she finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads - and any choice may be her last.

Fatal Reunion

Third in a series featuring Australian Detective Inspector Carol Ashton.

Chain Letter

Cop Out (Detective Inspector Carol Ashton Mystery Series)

Dead Certain (Detective Inspector Carol Ashton Mysteries)

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.

Past Due

When a law enforcement officer dies under highly suspicious circumstances, it sounds like the perfect case for Australian Detective Inspector Carol Ashton. Too bad she's the suspect. "McNab is the lesbian nation's answer to the bestselling hetero mystery writer."

Under Suspicion

While tracking down a ruthless hired killer, Australian top cop Carol Ashton is tempted by the seductive charms of a mysterious stranger ... a woman whose shadowy secrets could be leading Carol to the dark side of desire.

Set Up

"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"--Page 4 of cover.

Death Club

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.

Accidental Murder

"Detective Inspector Carol Ashton's promotion to Chief Inspector has immediately ensnared her in two assignments that hold no warning they will forever change her life. She's inherited the pressurized case of the high-profile death of media star and wealthy philanthropist Greta Denby, who had been undergoing a controversial experimental treatment for her cancer. Carol is now also taking on the case of the investigating officer Inspector Ian Rooke, who has himself just died under baffling circumstances--a demise made more mysterious by the inexplicable shoddiness of his investigation into Greta's death. In this final chapter, Carol must confront an increasingly dire future and the most formidable challenge of all--her fundamental belief in her career, and in herself."--Amazon.com.

Lethal care

The 16th Detective Inspector Carol Ashton Mystery (Detective Inspector Carol Ashton Mysteries)

Fall Guy

Detective Inspector Carol Ashton is unaware that her investigation of execution-style murders and the bombing of a small-town police station has put her life in grave danger. The case leads her to the fringes of a mysterious underground group whose members are waging an undeclared war against anyone who does not share their extremist views.

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