- Paperback: 220 pages
- Publisher: New Victoria Publishers Inc.,U.S. (July 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0934678480
- ISBN-13: 978-0934678483
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 187,513 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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While on vacation, Denver police officer Alison Kaine finds two murdered women outside lesbian bars, and rescues the victim of an attempted third murder and takes her home, while investigating a sadomasochistic dominatrix and a gang of homophobic de-programmers.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Have you read any of Kate Allen's books yet? You haven't? I envy you. You have yet to have the amazing pleasure of immersing yourself in her words, plot and characters for the first time. Now, do yourself a favor and get her work!
Why? Because of all the authors I have read in my life this is one who can make me laugh, make me angry, make me horny and make me think all in the space of a single page. It isn't a roller-coaster or other wilde ride. It is more like spending one of the best weekends you have ever had in your most favorite place on earth.
I'm not a mystery reader by habit, but I'll do without lunch for a week at work in order to get my hands on another Kate Allen book.
This is her first work, and as such has a few rough edges to her words that I've seen smooth out over the course of her four books (the fourth I am reading now). While some might feel cheated by other authors who write "series" works, don't assume these are like that at all. Each one stands on its own two feet and tells its own tale, not depending upon you to have read the books in order, or to ever read the other books.
Ms. Allen's characters are like the best friends we all wish we could claim in our lives. Not all totally wonderful people, but they are well drawn out, living, thinking women with a depth you seldom see in first person tales. Their faults and foibles are the imperfections woven into authentic persian rugs. There to be seen because they are the work of human hands.
Tired of "mystery" writers who cheat the reader's attempts at deduction by witholding evidence? Not Kate Allen. Nor do you feel that her protagonist, Allison Kane, is a dolt for not getting who the killer is on page 30. The tale is told in a natural progression that has you on the edge of your seat in more ways than one.
Sexy, funny, witty, wry, insightful and exciting, Kate Allen has become one of my favorite authors, no matter the genre.
Why? Because of all the authors I have read in my life this is one who can make me laugh, make me angry, make me horny and make me think all in the space of a single page. It isn't a roller-coaster or other wilde ride. It is more like spending one of the best weekends you have ever had in your most favorite place on earth.
I'm not a mystery reader by habit, but I'll do without lunch for a week at work in order to get my hands on another Kate Allen book.
This is her first work, and as such has a few rough edges to her words that I've seen smooth out over the course of her four books (the fourth I am reading now). While some might feel cheated by other authors who write "series" works, don't assume these are like that at all. Each one stands on its own two feet and tells its own tale, not depending upon you to have read the books in order, or to ever read the other books.
Ms. Allen's characters are like the best friends we all wish we could claim in our lives. Not all totally wonderful people, but they are well drawn out, living, thinking women with a depth you seldom see in first person tales. Their faults and foibles are the imperfections woven into authentic persian rugs. There to be seen because they are the work of human hands.
Tired of "mystery" writers who cheat the reader's attempts at deduction by witholding evidence? Not Kate Allen. Nor do you feel that her protagonist, Allison Kane, is a dolt for not getting who the killer is on page 30. The tale is told in a natural progression that has you on the edge of your seat in more ways than one.
Sexy, funny, witty, wry, insightful and exciting, Kate Allen has become one of my favorite authors, no matter the genre.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The first Allison Kaine novel and first novel written by Kate Allen that I have read. I orginally gave this as a birthday present but then 'retrieved' it to read myself. Unfortunatley I never returned it and this is now a book that I have read at least 5 times!
That is what makes it such good detective fiction - when you know who has done it and why, yet it still makes for great reading. the reason for this is that the characters are credible, funny and I would like them to be my friends as well. Every lesbian knows an Allison, a Michelle, a Janka and would like to know a Stacey! The gay and lesbian community is well described as is Denver.
Murder, quilting, two-stepping, football and an excellent story - what more could you ask for in a dyke detective novel.
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I can tell you what I like, and it isn't this book! Too many gratuitous characters, adding serious confusion to an already tangled and convoluted plot. In fact, I'm still not sure what this book was supposed to be about.
I think the main thing that destroyed this book for me (besides the nifty example of a deux ex machina ending) was that I didn't like the main character at all. In fact, I didn't like any of the characters!!! If I did start to think one of the characters was at least interesting, she got dropped from the story and a new, unlikeable one would pop up.
My friend liked the pic on the front cover and borrowed the book...The inevitable phone call: "So, when does it start getting good?"
'Nuff said.
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