Katherine V. Forrest

'The ultimate lesbian love novel' - Lesbian News 'A masterpiece of lesbian love' - Sacramento Star One of the best-known lesbian novels ever, having sold over 350,000 copies in its lifetime, this beloved romance is finally back in print. Candid in its eroticism, intensely romantic and remarkably beautiful, this story of two woman coming together in an intimate cabin at Lake Tahoe is a journey through the joys and passions of first discovery that will remain in readers' memories forever.

A Novel

Curious Wine

When revolutionary lesbian author Katherine V. Forrest's Amateur City was published in 1984, introducing LAPD detective Kate Delafield, it not only marked the beginning of one of mystery fiction's most successful series, it also created one of the most lucrative genres in gay publishing: the lesbian mystery. In the first, Amateur City, Kate and her partner, Ed Taylor, investigate the murder of a highly placed executive, whose body was found by a co-worker, a woman who begins to break down Kate's defences.

Amateur City

The author explores the world of lesbian pulp fiction, taking readers deep inside this under-the-surface literary phenomenon that fueled hundreds of cheap paperback novels after World War II and appealed to both heterosexual men and gay women alike. Original.

The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965

Lesbian Pulp Fiction

As LAPD detective Kate Delafield investigates the Thanksgiving Day strychnine poisoning of retired movie director Owen Sinclair, she discovers that he turned over names to the House of Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and destroyed countless careers. But which of his charmingly eccentric neighbours, most of whom have worked in Hollywood since the 1940s, might be responsible for what now appears to be a revenge killing?

A Kate Delafield Mystery

The Beverly Malibu

In a compelling novel of police misconduct and scandal, Kate Delafield is drawn into what appears to be a shocking conspiracy to prevent the outing of gay cops. "An unqualified knockout".--"Lambda Book Report".

Apparition Alley

When Detective Kate Delafield and her partner, Detective Joe Cameron, get the call to investigate a homicide in the secluded, old-money neighborhood of Hancock Park, Kate has the feeling it’s not going to be murder as usual. Her hunch is correct. A cultured, refined mother of three, Victoria Talbot is the last person you’d expect to die by gunshot, execution-style. At first the finger of guilt seems to point at the victim’s ex-husband Douglas, and everyone involved—from the authorities to his own children—are more than willing to suspect him. But for Kate, the easy way has rarely been proven the right way, and there are too many unanswered questions that suggest not all is at it seems with this dysfunctional family. Now, Douglas Talbot is on trial for his life, Kate’s lover Aimee has disappeared to God-knows-where, and Kate must piece together a deadly puzzle of secrets and lies…

Hancock Park

Katherine Forrest's fourth groundbreaking mystery returns to bookstore shelves.

Murder by Tradition

The most celebrated detective in lesbian literature returns in the most fateful case of her career... "Kate," Detective Joe Cameron said, "there was always the possibility--" "--that like most threats they were just threats," Kate finished for him. She knew better. Had known from the start this was as real as death. Death is now on her doorstep. Not even her loyal LAPD colleagues can protect her from an attack that may come from anywhere, anytime. Four years retired, Kate Delafield has a twenty-year old case roaring back on her, a case from which she had recoiled, withdrawn herself. A homophobic homicide far too reminiscent of a recent, haunting, life-changing investigation of the murder of a young lesbian at the Nightwood Bar. Now she suffers in secret, knowing she is personally culpable for the mishandling of evidence. She has also begun to understand how the roads she has traveled have led her to this day. The key decisions about the conduct of her life and her police career that have brought her directly to this time, this place in the high desert where she has taken herself. All she can do now, she resolves, is protect as best she can the people she loves most, especially Aimee, from this threat. And, until her time runs out, she can go back and investigate, determine who actually ended the life of fifteen-year-old April Shuster. But events, people, intervene. New people in her present life, some from her past. And they will take her in the most unexpected of directions.

Delafield

New to the Los Angeles area, leading a nomadic life of comfort and privilege, Paul and Carolyn Blake are an American success story. Paul is a self-made man who has overcome hardship to achieve a successful business career. Carolyn is the perfect young wife who has made him the envy of other men. Then Val Hunter and her ten-year-old son move in next door. An artist just coming into her own, she is a startling and unconventional woman on all counts: physically imposing, and with a burgeoning independence of spirit--and a sexuality that breaks through onto Carolyn...

An Emergence of Green

Who killed Dory Quillin, a nineteen-year-old lesbian and why? The investigation of the murder is far from a simple one.

Murder at the Nightwood Bar

Fourth in the most celebrated lesbian detective series. Lambda Literary Award winner.

O Captain, My Captain

A Kate Delafield Mystery (Kate Delafield)

Sleeping Bones

Liberty Square

Hancock Park (Kate Delafield Mystery)

In this long-awaited new installment of the legendary Kate Delafield mystery series, Kate is forced to confront her most formidable opponent: herself. Five months into mandated retirement from LAPD, her long term on-again off-again relationship with Aimee Grant off again, hopelessly dependent on the only substance that can drown her pain over Aimee and the illness of her best friend, lost without her police career, beset by terrifying dreams, Kate Delafield is in a world of trouble.

a Kate Delafield mystery

High desert

For LAPD Homicide Detective Kate Delafield, Washington DC is the last place on earth she wants to be. But, thanks to her partner’s machinations, here she is. Driven by insatiable curiosity about a past Kate has adamantly refused to share, Aimee has maneuvered her into attending what Aimee views as an innocuous reunion of the men and women with whom Kate served as a Marine Corps officer in Vietnam twenty-five years ago. The past resurfaces with a vengeance. First, shots are fired into their hotel room. Then a savage murder is committed by someone attending the reunion. Kate finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation in a city where she has no jurisdiction, confronted by detectives who view her with contentious suspicion. And Aimee learns to her consternation that Kate has had very good reasons to hold her memories at bay. Shocking secrets emerge—among them the alluring Rachel, who has now, thanks to Aimee, reentered Kate’s life. In unknown and hostile terrain, Kate must find a way through her tumultuous emotions, must use all her training and resourcefulness to protect herself and Aimee from the lethal danger gathering all around them.

I A Kate Delafield mystery, first in the series from this best-selling author.

Kommissarin Kate Delafield muß den Mord an einem bei seinen Mitarbeitern verhaßten Top-Manager aufklären. - Ein "Frauen-Krimi", der scharfsichtig und realistisch Milieu und Verhaltensweisen beleuchtet.

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