Synopses & Reviews
Ellen Hart's Jane Lawless series has been nominated for the Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Novel an incredible five times, most recently in 1996 for Robbers Wine. Now, in Wicked Games, the restaurant owner/amateur sleuth encounters murder and mayhem closer to home than ever before -- under her own roof.
Jane lives in a rambling, three-story house on Minneapolis's Lake Harriet with her aunt and uncle, and usually, a tenant in the third-floor apartment. Her newest renter is Elliot Beauman, a writer who seems nice but who's just graced the newspapers with an account of a murder he witnessed, but didn't see: Elliot is psychic, and his latest visions are of murder. Or is he lying, and how does he know so much about the killer?
"Hart's fans continue to swell as she consistently delivers a rich, full-bodied banquet with every book". -- Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Full of wit and wicked deeds, fast pacing and memorable characters... Followers of Lawless will delight in...the promise that this brightest of lesbian detective series burns ever brighter". -- Booklist (Starred) on Faint Praise
Review
"Hart's fans continue to swell as she consistently delivers a rich, full-bodied banquet with every book."--
Minneapolis Star Tribune"Hart adeptly wraps up the puzzles, and she also keeps questions about Jane's private life sufficiently unresolved to lure fans back for the next installment."--Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
Jane Lawless has worked hard to make her Minneapolis restaurant a success, and she's finally reaping the financial rewards. Yet even the demands and excitement of being a popular restauranteurs and living the good life don't bring the same satisfaction they once did. Jane needs a bigger challenge. A mystery to solve. The thrill of the chase...
When Jane rents her quaint third-story apartment to a new tenant, children's book author Elliot Beauman, she unwittingly opens the door to a sinister, decades-old mystery that has been waiting patiently to unfold--in her own house. Meanwhile, Jane assist a detective in tracking down clues about her new neighbor, Patricia, whose husband died mysteriously. Patricia is eager to become friends, or more...even though she knows Jane is immersed in a long-distance relationship with the attractive but secretive Dr. Julia Martinsen. little does Jane know that a strange man upstairs, an attractive neighbor, and a volatile love affair are just the beginning of her problems.