Killing Cure [Mass Market Paperback]

Ellen Hart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1995

After seventy-five years of high-minded respectability, the Amelia Gower Women's Club is in trouble. One distinguished director has been strangled. Another has taken a fatal plunge down the club's elegant staircase.

As soon as restaurateur-sleuth Jane Lawless begins investigating these murders, wheels within wheels start to turn, meshing private lives with the club's inner workings. Even Jane's new lover, Dorrie, is somehow involved in the diabolical proceedings....

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Minneapolis restaurateur/sleuth Jane Lawless solves the murders of two directors of a prestigious women's club in this new mystery by the author of Stage Fright, a 1992 Lambda nominee for Best Lesbian Mystery.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Minneapolis restaurant owner and part-time sleuth Jane Lawless ( Hallowed Murder ) interrupts her romance with councilwoman Dorrie in order to find a ledger and jewels stolen after the "accidental" death of the director of a charitable foundation. Lawless grills suspects for information, judges their reactions, and intuits their honesty. She then reviews her gleanings with her best friend, Cordelia, a witty and flamboyant theater person. An old mansion used as a woman's club provides the focal point for much of the action, while subplots involve ex-lovers, family secrets, and wrongful accusations. Strong characters, setting, and investigation: a great choice.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 295 pages
• Publisher: Fawcett (April 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345391128
• ISBN-13: 978-0345391124
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,629,879 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ellen Hart is the author of twenty-five crime novels in two different series.?? She is a five-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery, a three-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Best Popular Fiction, a three-time winner of the Golden Crown Literary Award, a recipient of the Alice B Medal, and was made an official GLBT Literary Saint at the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans in 2005. ?? Entertainment Weekly??named her one of the "101 Movers and Shakers in the Gay Entertainment Industry." For the past twelve years, Ellen has taught "An Introduction to Writing the Modern Mystery" through the The Loft Literary Center, the largest independent writing community in the nation. Ellen's newest Sophie Greenway mystery is No Reservations Required, (Ballantine, June 2005). The Mirror and the Mask, the seventeenth Jane Lawless mystery, was released by St. Martin's/Minotaur in November 2009.?? Ellen lives in Minneapolis with her partner of 32 years.