Synopses & Reviews
Members of the prestigious and long-revered Amelia Gower Women's Club are suddenly dropping like flies. The director has been strangled to death and the founder's granddaughter has taken a fatal fall from the third-floor. Minneapolis restaurateur-sleuth Jane Lawless enlists the help of her best friend, Cordelia, to help her search for clues in the frightening deaths. But the crime scene only becomes more and more dangerous with each secret they uncover, including a possible connection between Jane's lover and the murders. In this gripping, exciting early mystery from one of the genre's best, Ellen Hart's series is as delightful as ever.
Review
"Look to Hart for witty dialogue, themes of loyalty and betrayal, and dark secrets brought to light in an atmospheric and compelling story."
--Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
"A fast-paced, engrossing read, sure to please."
--Newsweekly -(Boston)
"Another fascinating case for Lawless."
--Library Journal
Synopsis
Members of the prestigious and long-revered Amelia Gower Women's Club are suddenly dropping like flies. The director has been strangled to death and the founder's granddaughter has taken a fatal fall from the third-floor. Minneapolis restaurateur-sleuth Jane Lawless enlists the help of her best friend, Cordelia, to help her search for clues in the frightening deaths. But the crime scene only becomes more and more dangerous with each secret they uncover, including a possible connection between Jane's lover and the murders. In this gripping, exciting early mystery from one of the genre's best, Ellen Hart's series is as delightful as ever.
About the Author
ELLEN HART is the Lambd-and Minnesota Book Award-winning author of the Jane Lawless mysteries and the Sophie Greenway mysteries. Called one of the "top novelists in the cultishly popular gay mystery genre" by
Entertainment Weekly, she lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.