Land of Entrapment

New Mexico #1

by Andi Marquette

K.C. Fontero left New Mexico in the wake of a bitter break-up to take an academic fellowship in Texas. With a doctorate in sociology and expertise in white supremacist groups, she's on her way to an academic career. But a plea for help from her ex, Melissa, brings K.C. back to Albuquerque to find Melissa's troubled younger sister.

Megan has disappeared with her white supremacist boyfriend and K.C. knows she has the expertise to track the mysterious group, and she knows she'll be doing a public service to uncover it.

What she doesn't know is how far into her past she'll have to go to find both Megan and herself and the deeper she digs into the group, the greater the danger she faces.

Genres: Lesbian, Mystery, Crime, Lesbian Fiction, Lesbian Romance, LGBT, Queer

244 pages, Print on Demand (Paperback)

First published May 1, 2008

About the author

Andi Marquette was born in New Mexico and grew up in Colorado. She completed a couple of academic degrees in anthropology and returned to New Mexico, where she decided a doctorate in history was somehow a good idea. She completed it before realizing that maybe she should have joined the circus, or at least a traveling Gypsy troupe. Oh, well. She fell into editing and publishing sometime around 1993 and has been obsessed with words ever since, which may or may not be a good thing. She is a co-owner and co-founder of LGBTQ publishing house Dirt Road Books.

Reviews

[Deirdre S. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'll give this a solid 4-stars. Good character development, coherent writing, a touch of action/adventure and a delayed-gratification romance. Plus some suitably repellant white-supremacist villains.

[Ulla · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really good read! Refreshing, funny, serious, deep . . . On the the next one now!

[Alena · Rating 4 out of 5]

First novel I've read by Andi Marquette, and definitely not the last.

It's refreshingly well written, everything just seems to work here.

K.C. Fontero, sociologist with a focus on white supremacy groups, is contacted by her ex-girlfriend to help her find her younger sister, Megan, who may have be caught up in a neo-Nazi group. The background of K.C. and Melissa's relationship works well to tell us more about K.C. and who she is. The neo-Nazi storyline makes for an interesting plot, creepy definitely, but good as K.C finds out that Megan is held against her will. There's romance as well which illustrates perfectly how hard it can be to move on, the conflicts K.C. has mostly with herself are believable and endearing. The cast of characters and the descriptions of Albuquerque and the surrounding area make me want to pack my things and move there.

All the different parts of this story form a whole that's well worth reading and entertaining, moving, funny, page-turning suspenseful all rolled into one.

[MJSam · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this but didn't love it. There is a romance in this story, but the story is essentially about K.C. and is told in first person from her POV, plotting her various interactions in the process of helping a friend, the romance is secondary. Sage doesn't even show up until about a quarter of the way through, and has about as much 'screen time' as Chris, so there's a fair bit of lead separation. Sage is a bit of an off-beat character though, so I'm not sure more of her would have been needed.

If you prefer books where the leads are together the majority of time, then this is not the book for you. The neo nazi plot got a bit tedious after a while, but overall the character of K.C. and her interactions with the supporting characters were enough to keep me engaged.

[Stevie Carroll · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent start to a mystery series, in which we get introduced to all the main characters quickly, and then gradually learn their back stories. I found K.C. a little too trusting at times, but then I've read a lot of stories with complex twists of late. In this, though, the bad guys are thoroughly bad, the good guys really are good, and the missing person K.C. has come back to New Mexico to find, is mostly very mixed up. Now to track down the next in the series...

[Gill · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a thoroughly enjoyable mystery. The white supremacist angle lends menace and although there are a couple of plot points that stretch credulity, it's generally very well-written. Andi Marquette has created several interesting characters whose adventures will be worth following.

[Jen Silver · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great story. I felt like I was in New Mexico along with the characters. Look forward to reading more books in this series.

[Lynne Carlson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good, entertaining read.