Murder at the Nightwood Bar

This was an expetacular read! I can say with all certainty that until now, this is the best book I have ever read in the category of lesbian literature of mystery/ crime / police investigation. Katherine V. Forrest did an incredible job on this volume of the series; I had really enjoyed the first volu......more

Back in the day, every lesbian feminist had at least one Katherine V Forrest book on her shelves. I read a good handful of them in the 80s and early 90s and liked them well enough. They're easy reads that are hard to put down, but their simple, straightforward style didn't exactly fit my definition......more

A very satisfying book that is easy to read. Short, clear chapters lead into each other. There's some police bruality which is never OK and ideologies backing that up (eg aghast when one of Kate's new friends does not have good security on her home). Noone in the book seems to have good professional......more

dissertation reading, #7 oh. my. god. this is the best book i’ve read for my dissertation so far, hands down. i feel like i could write an entire dissertation on this book alone. the first in my diss research that takes place at an explicitly queer setting, with extremely dark themes and a mystery th......more

Quick note only: I read Forrest's Daughters of a Coral Dawn a few years back and was sort of ho-hum about it: take away its lesbian agenda and you were left with a pretty poor sf novel. This is the first of her mysteries I've tried, and I was very pleasantly surprised. Lesbian LAPD homicide cop Kate D......more