Delafield, Katherine V. Forrest
Delafield, Katherine V. Forrest
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Delafield

Author: Katherine V. Forrest

Narrator: Kate Zane

Unabridged: 7 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/19/2022


Synopsis

The most celebrated detective in lesbian literature returns in the most fateful case of her career . . .

Four years retired, Kate Delafield has a twenty-year-old case roaring back on her, a case from which she had recoiled, withdrawn herself.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.

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.

About Katherine V. Forrest

Katherine V. Forrest is a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award for best mystery, and has been recently honored with the Pioneer Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Velvet Lounger on January 22, 2014

High Desert, Katherine V. Forrest High Desert is the ninth in the Kate Delafield detective series and once again plunges us into a combination of crime and personal crisis. Nearly ten years after the last instalment Kate has retired and now faces an empty world without ‘the job’ which has filled her......more

Goodreads review by LVLMLeah on June 02, 2015

I haven't read any of the other books in this series with character Kate Delafield, and this is the last one that was written. What I liked: It's written so that I didn't feel lost or that I had missed a huge chunk of Kate's history by not having read the previous books. There was just enough back s......more

Goodreads review by Megan on June 19, 2020

Ever wonder why I give so few 5-star ratings? It is because of books like High Desert, which raise the bar on excellence in writing. This isn’t Forrest’s first excellent mystery by any means. In fact, most of the books in the Kate Delafield series are better than any lesbian mystery by any other aut......more

Goodreads review by R.E. on May 04, 2016

Former LAPD Detective Kate Delafield returns in a tightly wrought story of recovery and revenge. Forced to retire from the LAPD and estranged from her lover, Kate has been wallowing in an internal bath of Cutty Sark when her former boss asks her to find Kate’s former police partner. Kate’s search le......more

Goodreads review by Scriptmonkey on November 08, 2024

Okay, I wanted to give this book a 4-star rating because of the somber maturity of the writing and Kate doing some actual detective work, but it still repeats some of the same patterns that have bugged me in this series. Some may say: "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" Well, your mileage may vary. In......more