Crime and Detective Catalogue as of November 2014
Books are listed in order of author’s last name, and details of books are in the following order:
Catalogue number
Author
Title
Description
Date published
Number of tapes
Reader’s name
030N
Brown, Judith C.
Immodest Acts: The life of a lesbian nun in Renaissance Italy
A fascinating 17th century detective story based on Abbess Benedetta Carlini. Her ‘visions’ made her represent the angelic spirit, she claimed. An independent woman, silenced, who turned to visions to leave her mark.
Published 1986
5 tapes
Read by Kathryn Baker
158
Calloway, Kate
1st Impressions
Cassidy James book 1. In her first case as a private investigator she meets the beautiful Erica Trinidad – the chief suspect in a murder investigation. Cassidy must prove Erica’s innocence by finding the real killer of Erica’s rich uncle, but it soon becomes clear that more than one unsolved crime is shattering the tranquillity of the quiet Cedar Hills lakeside, and as Cassidy stays one step ahead of the police, she may be one step too close to the murderer.
Published 2000
4 tapes
Read by Elaine
190
Calloway, Kate
Second Fiddle
At their wit’s end, a gay couple hire private investigator Cassidy James to find out who is blackmailing them to move out of Cedar Ridge. She soon learns that other local residents have received threatening letters. Slowly, Cassidy finds the answers to all of her questions, but will she be tempted to ask one too many?
Published 1998
4 tapes
Read by Elaine
191
Calloway, Kate
Third Degree
Cassidy James suspects that the women of Cedar Hills are being systematically terrorised by an intruder, but none of the victims is willing to go to the police. With the facts in the open, how will she be able to stop the intruder before he stops her?
Published 1999
4 tapes
Read by Elaine
211
Calloway, Kate
Fourth Down
Someone close to Dr Allison Crane is trying to kill the influential doctor. Posing as her new girlfriend, Cassidy James accompanies her to a rustic lesbian retreat in the Oregon wilderness. Whilst romance and lust are soon on the agenda, danger is always lurking just around the corner.
Published 2000
4 tapes
Read by Elaine
254
Calloway, Kate
Fifth Wheel
A killer is abducting young women. Martha Harper follows the clues to a local college, and turns to her best friend, Cassidy, for help. Cassidy poses as a teaching assistant and soon encounters the alluring professor Lauren Monroe. But the more she learns, the more she suspects. Note, graphic violence in this book.
Published 1998
4 tapes
Read by Betty
255
Calloway, Kate
Sixth Sense
The last person P I Cassidy James expects to hear from is her ex-lover. But finally, Cassidy has to put all her anger and hurt aside and meet a Maggie begging for her help. Maggie has just witnessed not one, but two separate, brutal murders. Both victims are connected to clients of hers.
Published 1999
5 tapes
Read by Betty
256
Calloway, Kate
Seventh Heaven
The savage attack on a close friend propels Oregon Private Eye Cassidy James through a menacing maze of intrigue and betrayal. At first glance, the brutal beating of P.I. Cassidy James’s buddy Tommy Green looks like a botched mugging. But the clues soon lead Cassidy to something infinitely more sinister. Some people very close to her are playing games with human lives… diabolical games that are about to turn deadly. With Tommy in a coma, the only one who can help her crack this dangerous case is the lone witness – her devastatingly beautiful and deliciously seductive ex-lover, Erica Trinidad. Cassidy knows from experience that the only way to keep her head is to stay far away from Erica’s bed. Some things, of course, are easier said than done…
Published 1999
5 tapes
Read by Betty
257
Calloway, Kate
Eighth Day
Undercover at an isolated reform school for problem teenagers, P I Cassidy James is about to confront the unthinkable. The clues point to a brutal murder – but where is the body? Trying not to let her attraction to a handsome cowgirl divert her attention from the case, Cassidy suspects that the truth lies buried deep within a closely guarded abandoned mine. Published 2001
5 tapes
Read by Betty
124
Dreher, Sarah
Stoner McTavish
Stoner McTavish book 1. Sarah Dreher has created in Stoner McTavish a character lesbians can treasure. She’s normal (that is, only mildly neurotic), with a gem of an aunt and a delightful friend in Marylou. On this first adventure she meets the woman of her dreams: except for the slight problem of a husband, Gwen is perfect.
Published 1985
6 tapes
Read by Margi
226
Dreher, Sarah
Something Shady
Stoner McTavish book 2. Set around the disappearance of a woman working in a mental health institution.
Published 1988
8 tapes
Read by Betty
120
Dreher, Sarah
Bad Company
Stoner McTavish book 6. When Stoner McTavish is called in to investigate a series of minor accidents at an exclusive hotel, it seems the perfect opportunity for an expenses-paid break. But as a vicious game of sabotage begins to unfold, McTavish must confront a killer with a desperate grudge.
Published 1995
7 tapes
Read by Elaine
269
Dreher, Sarah
Shaman’s Moon
Stoner McTavish book 7. McTavish investigates ghosts who have appeared in the sleepy town of Shelburne Falls.
Published 1998
7 tapes
Read by Betty
248
Duffy, Stella
Calendar Girl
South London sleuths Maggie and Saz come together on the trail of a mystery woman known only as September, who shuttles between London and New York in a whirlwind of drug smuggling, gambling and prostitution. When a murder occurs, Maggie and Saz must find the culprit.
Published 1994
4 tapes
Read by Betty
219
Duffy, Stella
Beneath The Blonde
Saz Martin is hired to protect Siobhan Forrester, lead singer of a band fronted by her boyfriend, but who is now being stalked. The investigation takes Saz from London to New Zealand with plenty of stop-overs, but the excitement is tempered by reality when intimidation turns to murder. And to make life harder for Saz, she isn’t sure she wants to keep the relationship strictly business.
Published 2000
6 tapes
Read by Elaine
015
Forrest, Katherine V
Amateur city
Kate Delafield book 1. On her second day at a new job, Ellen O’Neil finds one of the company’s executives murdered. Detective Kate Delafield of the LAPD is brought in on the case…
Published 1984
5 tapes
Read by Anne
164
Forrest, Katherine V.
Murder at the Nightwood Bar
Kate Delafield book 2. Dory is found dead outside a lesbian bar. Detective Kate Delafield is lead to the gay city of West Hollywood, where she uncovers shocking facts about the brief life of the murdered woman. There is an uncooperative silence from the parents, and hostility from the lesbians who frequent the Nightwood Bar.
Published 1988
5 tapes
Read by Chris
217
Forrest, Katherine V.
The Beverly Malibu
Kate Delafield book 3. No-one appears to care when old-time Hollywood film director, Owen Sinclair, is found murdered on Thanksgiving day. As a friendly witness for House of Un-American Activities he betrayed friends and colleagues. But who could have hated him enough to want to watch him die a violent death.
Published 1990
5 tapes
Read by Betty
183
Forrest, Katherine V.
Liberty Square
Kate Delafield book 5. Kate attends the 25th reunion of those who served in Vietnam – an event she’s avoided, to suppress painful memories. Then one of the guests is murdered and she becomes ‘a cop on the inside’.
Published 1996
5 tapes
Read by Pat Coleman
270
Forrest, Katherine V
Apparitian Alley
Kate Delafield book 6. Kate investigates the murder of a Los Angeles police officer who was about to reveal some deep, dark secrets.
Published 1997
5 tapes
Read by Betty
197
Forrest, Katherine V
Sleeping Bones
Kate Delafield book 7. Kate has a new iron-willed female lieutenant; a tough new partner who may turn out to be a much-needed ally. This unusual investigation of a pile of bones could uncover the truth of humanity’s ancient past, and, at the same time, expose the corruption and violence of the present.
Published 1999
6 tapes
Read by Betty
224
Forrest, Katherine V.
Hancock ParkKate Delafield book 8. Kate investigates a homicide in the secluded neighbourhood of Hancock Park, and she has the feeling it’s going to be an unusual case. Her hunch is correct: a cultured, refined mother of three is the last person you’d expect to die by gunshot.
Published 2004
5 tapes
Read by Betty
267
Foster, Marion
The Monarchs Are Flying
When radio journalist Leslie Taylor is accused of the murder of her ex-lover Marcie, it looks as though her motive for murder is obvious. After all, she’s jealous of Marcies marriage. Even when Harriet Fordham Croft, a successful attorney-at-law ‘with the poise of a model and the memory of a computer’ offers to defend her, Leslie can see no way out. It looks like a cut and dried case. Or is it?
Published 1989
5 tapes
Read by Betty
150
Jen, Green (Ed.)
Reader, I murdered him
Anthology of original crime stories, a showcase of 16 excellent mysteries from newcomers and experts. The collection to give ‘little old ladies’ a bad name. Brilliance and humour.
Published 1989
7 tapes
Read by Lia
154
Kelly, Maggie
Burning Issues
In a genteel seaside resort, an elderly student dies horribly. Her tutor, Mig, pieces together Dulcie’s fragmented writing and the investigation snowballs outside the comfortable, middle class lesbian community. Can Mig, or her relationships, survive, let alone stop the complex network of violence.
Published 1995
4 tapes
Read by Elaine
133
La Favour, Carole
Along the Journey River
When irreplaceable Ojibwa artefacts are stolen from the school on the Red Earth reservation, the community turns to Renee de Laroche: a two-spirit whose dreams give her special insights into the lives of her people.
Published 1996
5 tapes
Read by Betty
220
McDermid, Val
Report for Murder
Lindsey Gordon is a socialist lesbian reporter from Glasgow. She takes a job at the request of a friend who is a teacher at a girls public school in Derbyshire. Lindsey is there to write about a fund-raising gala but, when a famous cellist old-girl is murdered, Lindsey is drawn into an investigation to try and clear her friend’s name.
Published 1987
9 tapes
Read by Wendy
261
McDermid, Val
Dead Beat
Kate Brannigan book 1. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realize that finding Moira is a prelude to murder.
Published 2002
7 tapes
Read by Elaine
201
McNab, Claire
Death Understood
Denise Cleever book 2. A gripping story about intelligence agent, Denise Cleever’s involvement as she works undercover at the powerful Hiddwing Institute, a right-wing organisation. It’s headed by a brother and sister who are promoting racism in Australian society. They are both attracted to Denise for different reasons. Can she survive the danger she finds herself in?
Published 2000
4 tapes
Read by Jill
214
McNab, Claire
Death by Death
Denise Cleever book 3. Agent Denise Cleever goes undercover when she joins the staff of an exclusive clinic. Patients of charismatic psychiatrist Dr Graham Thorwell are being turned from troubled young people into directed murderers who will kill on command. Can denise unravel the mysteries when both her body and mind are equally under threat.
Published 2003
4 tapes
Read by Jill
271
McNab, Claire
Lessons In Murder
Carol Ashton book 1. When a teacher – the son of a former Premier of New South Wales – is murdered at a Northern Beaches Sydney school, Detective Inspector Carol Ashton is assigned to the case. But even she does not bank on falling in love with her chief suspect, a charming, attractive teacher named Sybil.
Published 1990
4 tapes
Read by Betty
280
McNab, Claire
Fatal Reunion
Carol Ashton book 2. Carol Ashton’s life seems settled – until the phone-call which drags Carol back to a world of high spending and low values, and back to Christine, the woman Carol can’t forget.
Published 1989
4 tapes
Read by Betty
281
McNab, Claire
Death Down Under
Carol Ashton book 3. Four Sydney women have been murdered, each one ritually strangled. Carol is angered by the sensation-hungry press, but feels especially confronted by Madeline Shipley, a television presenter willing to take unhealthy risks to ensure top ratings.
Published 1993
4 tapes
Read by Betty
282
McNab, Claire
Cop Out
Carol Ashton book 4. Bryce Darcy, partner in a successful family business, has been murdered. His sister has confessed, and DI Carol Ashton is informed that it is a shut case. Yes, Carol discovers that the dead man was member of a support group for married gay men, and that the Darcy family seethes with secrets.
Published 2003
4 tapes
Read by Betty
284
McNab, Claire
Dead Certain
Carol Ashton book 5. A young Australian opera star is found dead and appears to have commited suicide. When his autopsy reveals that he was HIV positive, his family and professional associates cover up the circumstances of his death. Convinced that this man has been murdered, Carol Ashton opens a full-scale investigation. Meanwhile, her lover Sybil is becoming more frustrated with their own closeted existence.
Published 1993
4 tapes
Read by Betty
285
McNab, Claire
Body Guard
Carol Ashton book 6. Carol is assigned as bodyguard to a feminist lecturer who attracts publicity as well as threats from a group, who threaten to execute her by any means necessary.
Published 1995
5 tapes
Read by Betty
287
McNab, Claire
Double Bluff
Carol Ashton book 7. TV star Madeline Shipley is being stalked, but is she really the pray of a psychotic fan? Investigating the suicide of businessman Heyden Delray’s wife, Carol receives threats that could be meant to lever her off the case. As she becomes more involved, the danger widens to include her family. published 1996
4 tapes
Read by Betty
288
McNab, Claire
Inner Circle
Carol Ashton book 8. Carol’se latest task is to stop a militant extremist group before they claim more victims, but how long will it be before she becomes the target of their violent campaign?
Published 1998
4 tapes
Read by Betty
289
McNab, Claire
Chain Letter
Carol Ashton book 9. Good fortune is the last thing that comes to the recipients of a series of chain letters. Without fail, those who receive them are dead within days. D I Carol Ashton wants to devote all her attention to the case, but her estranged lover, Sibyl, is back in Australia and Carol’s finding it hard to believe that they can’t work things out. But then Carol realises that the killer’s next ‘chosen one’ is very close to home.
Published 1997
4 tapes
Read by Betty
292
McNab, Claire
Past Due
Carol Ashton book 10. Dr Brian Halstead, a leading specialist in fertility treatment, heads a clinic at the cutting edge of genetic research. A scandal threatens to paint a very different picture of a dangerous fanatic playing with his patient’s lives – and with the laws of nature.
Published 1998
5 tapes
Read by Betty
009
Paretsky, Sara
Burn Marks
V I Warshawski book 6. V I investigates what looks like a simple case of arson and uncovers corruption and collusion among Chicago politicians.
Published 1990
8 tapes
Read by Susan Richardson
193
Scott, Manda
Hen’s Teeth
Midnight in Glasgow is a bad time to be faced with a dead body, especially if the body is that of your ex-lover, and the woman grieving at her bedside used to be your friend. For Dr. Kellen Shetward, ex-medic, a simple call for help rapidly twists into a tangled web of deceit.
Published 1997
6 tapes
Read by Betty
202
Shacklady, Helen
The Patterned Flute
Moving between England and France, a sometimes scary, sometimes hilarious mystery. A cast of lesbian, gay and straight characters make this a compelling story where theft isn’t always what it seems, and new-age therapists can deceive. Also a lesbian romance with action shadowed with heartbreak and lust.
Published 2001
6 tapes
Read by Helen Shacklady
262
Taverner, Jay
Something Wicked
Mourning the loss of her long-time girlfriend (to a man),Scotty,an urban lesbian, seeks rest and recuperation deep in the English countryside. But rumours of witchcraft and child pornography take real and violent shape before Helen, a local librarian,helps our heroine to solve the crimes and reconsider romance.
Published 2002
5 tapes
Read by Betty
040
Wilson, Barbara Ellen
Ambitious Women
Alison and Holly own and operate a print shop together. When Alison helps a woman who is wanted for a bombing, she is threatened with a grand jury investigation that could lead to a jail sentence.
Published 1982
7 tapes
Read by Marlene Tise
225
Wilson, Barbara
Gaudi Afternoon
Join globe-trotting Spanish translator and amateur detective Cassandra Reilly in this comic thriller set in Barcelona. She gets a call from femme fatale Frankie, whose husband has vanished without trace. Cassandra is soon on the trail of the elusive Ben, as well as the mysterious foot therapist April Schauer, and the sax player reputed to be from Prague.
Published 1990
4 tapes
Read by Betty
187
Wings, Mary
She Came Too Late
Emma Victor book 1. Emma is drawn into a mysterious death investigation after receiving a call for help to the Women’s Hotline. This is a wicked combination of wit, political intrigue and corruption.
Published 1985
6 tapes
Read by Betty
246
Wings, Mary
She Came In A Flash
Emma Victor book 2. Our intrepid heroine is hot on the trail of Lana, her best friend’s Sister: once a high school whizz-kid, now a member of a mysterious yellow-clad cult. But Emma is too late to save Lana, whose body is discovered, not in the transcendental ocean of bliss, but swimming in concrete ankle bracelets in the muddy waters of San Francisco bay…
Published 1988
6 tapes
Read by Elaine
138
Wings, Mary
She came by the book
Emma Victor book 3. It’s 20 years since Emma’s former boss, politician Howard Blooming, was assassinated. Now she’s promised to deliver his private papers and their secrets into safekeeping. The opening of the Howard Blooming Memorial Archive seems to provide her with a golden opportunity, but her mission is soon placed in deadly jeopardy when the chief archivist succumbs to cyanide poisoning.
Published 1995
5 tapes
Read by Elaine
136
Wings, Mary
She came to the Castro
Emma Victor book 4. A mayoral candidate becomes a target for blackmail – but before Emma Victor can nab him, the culprit turns up dead. Now the election is drawing near, and Emma is the one running for her life.
Published 1997
7 tapes
Read by Jill
276
Wings, Mary
Divine Victim
The narrator’s lesbian lover, Marya, inherits a large, eerie Montana home, and the two women find a house full of unsolved mysteries.
Published 1992
6 tapesRead by Betty
215
Woodcraft, Elizabeth
Good Bad Woman
Frankie Richmond is a London barrister who agrees to defend a friend at a routine hearing and ends up being arrested for a murder she did not commit. Frankie sets out to discover the truth while trying to disentangle her mercurial friendships and meet the woman of her dreams.
Published 2001
7 tapes
Read by Carol
249
Woodcraft, Elizabeth
Babyface
Barrister Frankie Richmond agrees to defend Danny Richards, who’s been accused of murder. Frankie needs to put her love-life on hold and try to focus on the case if she’s to find out who’s really guilty of the murder – or if there’s even been a murder at all. Sequel to “Good Bad Woman”, Cat. 215
Published 2003
6 tapes
Read by Betty
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