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Murder at the Nightwood Bar (Kate Delafield #2)
Kate Delafield investigates the murder of a homeless 19-year-old addict-prostitute, whose battered body is found outside a popular lesbian bar.
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
March 1st 1987
by Alyson Books
(first published January 1st 1987)
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This is a period piece -- sort of a quintessential lesbian murder mystery. The protagonist is a closeted police detective thrust into the investigation of a lesbian at a lesbian bar. Though some of the supporting characters at the bar are (*cough*) a little broadly drawn, they do seem to reflect the culture of the era (though I wasn't exactly hanging out in lesbian bars in the mid-1980s, being in elementary school at the time).
Though I don't want to give away the plot, I will warn you that the...more
Though I don't want to give away the plot, I will warn you that the...more
Murder at the Nightwood Bar: a Kate Delafield Mystery, by Catherine V. Forrest, a-minus, Borrowed from National Library Services for the Blind.
This is one of the earliest Kate Delafield mysteries. Kate is a detective in the Los Angeles Police Department starting in the 1980’s. Kate is also a lesbian, not very “out” at work. But she and her partner are called to the scene of a murder at the Nightwood Bar, a lesbian bar. A woman has been living in a van on the property, and she is murdered right...more
This is one of the earliest Kate Delafield mysteries. Kate is a detective in the Los Angeles Police Department starting in the 1980’s. Kate is also a lesbian, not very “out” at work. But she and her partner are called to the scene of a murder at the Nightwood Bar, a lesbian bar. A woman has been living in a van on the property, and she is murdered right...more
Like many of the mysteries I've unpacked and raced through when too tired to continue reading academic books or novels that I want to pay close attention to, this doesn't read quite as well today as it did twenty years ago. It wasn't bad, and in the 1980s it had the virtue of being one of not all that many lesbian mystery novels, but overall its main interest lies in its being (now) somewhat of a period piece. The psychology of the various characters, especially the victim's parents, is pretty p...more
I really enjoyed this book, definitely more than I did Amateur City (the first in the series). I guess the murder was a more interesting one to read about - 19-year-old girl outside a gay nightbar, instead of a middle-aged business man, with its supporting cast of characters being mostly all the other lesbians who frequent said bar rather than more boring old business men :P It also reminded me a LOT of an episode of SVU, which I guess added to the interest? I could get into it more because of t...more
Katherine Forrest is my all time favorite writer of lesbian mysteries. This is the second book in her LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield series. As I worked my way through this series; I grew in my knowledge of social justice.
just re-read this for the umpteenth time and still a great story. Kate knows who she is a female cop who is a lesbian. This is not a coming out story, but a mystery with a lesbian lead.
Although I much prefer the Brits for murder mysteries, this was quite servicable. Much less broadly drawn and overwrought than some lesbian fiction tends to be.
While the themes treated were interesting, I felt the book was quite poorly written.
Love Lesbian mysteries and this was one of the best
I usually read a book I think I won't like after I read a book that I absolutely loved. Perhaps this is a strange process, but I'm always afraid something moderately good will suffer by comparison. After all, don't we date bad people so that we'll know exceptional when we see it? This book was actually not as bad as I expected, it was at least entertaining. I'm not really sure how all these mystery books get in my house, but perhaps it has something to do with the number of houseguests I have in...more
Forrest injects too much of her own lesbian emotions into the book instead of staying objective. And one thing that really irritates me is that, in her efforts to make men look as repulsive as possible, she makes sure to point out that certain men have thick, darkly-matted hairy forearms. I'm a true blue dyed in the wool lesbian, but even I'm not as much of a man-hater as she is.
Very disappointed to read this again after 15ish years.
Very disappointed to read this again after 15ish years.
Another good read and murder mystery.
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Not usually into murder mysteries...but this would be an intersting opening to the genre.
Merged review:
Not usually into murder mysteries...but this would be an intersting opening to the genre.
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Katherine V. Forrest is the groundbreaking author of Curious Wine, the Kate Delafield mystery series and the Daughters science-fiction series. She’s also known as a prolific editor with anthology and non-fiction credits in her own name as well as the editor of hundreds of novels. Dozens of lesbian writers count her among their mentors. Selected as the 2009 recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s Bi...more
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