Sweet Poison

Lambda and Minnesota Book Award-winning author Ellen Hart delivers another high-caliber mystery with Sweet Poison, her newest Lambda Award Finalist in a mystery series as loved for its delightful charm as for the absorbing psychological depth of its characters.

Jane Lawless is at her wits end keeping her Minneapolis restaurants running while volunteering on her fathers campaign for governor. With a solid lead, the race is Ray Lawlesss to lose, but that changes when his rival posts a list of criminals who are on the streets, thanks to Rays work as a defense lawyer. Corey Hodge is one of the ex-cons who took Rays advice to plead guilty for a crime he swears he didnt commit, and revenge is never far from his mind. Then one of Rays volunteers is killed in such a way that mirrors the crime Corey was convicted of, and Jane must bring in the killer to save her fathers political career and to keep Corey from going to prison again.

The high stakes and intrigue that fuel Sweet Poison make for a gripping novel of ambition and obsession.

—Publishers Weekly

“Ellen Hart, one of Minnesotas bestselling mystery writers, weaves a net of complex relationships. . . . Sweet Poison is as much a psychological thriller about unrequited love as a mystery.”

—Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota)

“A solidly satisfying sixteenth title in this popular lesbian murder-mystery series . . . [Hart] plumbs deeper into the convoluted hearts and minds of her fascinating characters.”

—Booklist

Ellen Hart, “a top novelist in the cultishly popular gay mystery genre” (Entertainment Weekly), is also a Lambda and Minnesota Book Award winner. The author of sixteen mysteries featuring Jane Lawless, she lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.