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Rosalyn Wraight (Author)
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March 8, 2000 Laura McCallister Mysteries

What happens to all those characters a novelist creates? Could it be that they exist in an alternate plane? Could they be capable of returning to the writer, demanding a better, more fulfilling existence? This seems to be reality for Emily Decker, lauded mystery writer, when she is confronted by Milicent Baylor.

In her effort to get Milicent's existence past the burgeoning state, Emily writes a series of erotic stories, set in varying locales—from Alaska to Timbuktu. Each word, each sentence that Emily writes, makes Milicent stronger, more viable, more real. Emily places herself in these torrid tales and follows her character's regeneration. As Milicent grows in strength and character, Emily realizes she is falling in love with her own creation.

But all is not well in the real world...

The book opens with a police investigation into a pile of bones found in the woods. Detective Laura McCallister intends to solve the riddle. Whose bones are they? What do they have to do with Emily? What do they have to do with Milicent? How do Emily's father and housekeeper fit into this twisted scenario? Is anything as it appears to be?

Rosalyn Wraight has written more than just an engrossing novel. She has managed to weave three storylines into one seamless tale: a murder mystery, a love story, and an erotic adventure that stretches all over the globe.

 

Sample chapters are available on LesbianWriter.com.


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One of those rare books, so complex that it leaves me struggling for words...something fresh and original. -- The Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Author of the Detective Laura McCallister lesbian mystery series and the Lesbian Adventure Club series. LesbianWriter.com

Product Details

  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Don't Waste Daylight; 1 edition (March 8, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 192897323X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1928973232
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,213,900 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Rosalyn Wraight is the author of three Detective Laura McCallister lesbian mysteries: Woman Justice, Secrets and Sins, and Corpse Call.

She also writes the Lesbian Adventure Club series, which chronicles the monthly exploits of five lesbian couples. Currently, the LAC series consists of twelve titles: Scavengers, Ledge Walkers, Savages, Loose Sleuths, Sisters, Leakers Ignited, Scraps, L-Word C-Word, Spiders, Likely Suspects, Stalemates, and Laura's League. There is also a backstory romance available: The Queen of Terrified and the Newly Brave Landowner.

Sample chapters and a variety of ebook formats are available on LesbianAdventureClub.com.

 

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars An overblown jumble, neither mystery nor romance, January 23, 2011
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This review is from: Woman Justice (Paperback)
I was deeply disappointed in this book, the more so because I had read good reviews and looked forward to it for some time. The writing style put me off almost at once - I found it overblown, fanciful and sometimes bizarre, detracting from the story itself. Emily's eyes were forever being "abducted", or her soul "infested", while the constant use of words in inappropriate contexts (such as "she pelted" for "she said") was just plain annoying. The similes were exaggerated and frequently cringe-making ("Her father's face went ashen - like a slab of animal fat left on the floor in the back", "Emily swirled the one o'clock coffee in her mouth like a sewer drain in mid shower") and so frequent that they became intrusive and irritating. Sometimes it's ok just to swill the coffee without it being "like" anything, let alone a sewer.

I couldn't bring myself to like a single one of these characters, never mind care about their love lives. Laura was angry and controlling, Emily a needy hysteric, Milicent a petulant child, and Olivia a sycophant. I saw no love here, just women trying to manipulate other women. The sex scenes overall weren't badly written but without the emotional involvement they did nothing for me. A few phrases were badly overused ("her luscious pool") and some made me want to burst into hysterical laughter ("her pelvis screamed upwards").

As for the detective story part of it, well maybe I just missed a lot of clues, but I'm a big fan of detective stories and can usually pick one that works. This one simply didn't. There were too many facts that didn't appear until late in the book, and too much overall that remained unexplained. The last chapter made no sense at all to me, and Wraight seemed to want Milicent to be both real and not real. Milicent's convenient appearances and disappearances, the fact that no one else could see her and that Emily couldn't touch her at first, didn't jibe with the ending.

Lastly, Ms Wraight is obviously an unrepentant smoker which is great for her, but not everyone in this day and age finds smoking sexy, and I'm sure a few readers besides myself will find the constant cigarette references very off-putting.

I'm glad others have enjoyed this book, but not my style at all. It was saved from one star by some of the short stories within the main story. To my mind, the short story format suits Ms Wraight's writing technique far better than the full length novel.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars You have to read this one all the way to the end, July 26, 2008
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Woman Justice is not only a mystery that keeps you wondering about "who done it" right up until the end, it keeps you wondering exactly what kind of book it is.

The story begins with the discovery of a pile of bones and Detective Laura McCallister has a mystery to solve. Whose are they and how did they get there? The story of the young man who reports finding them doesn't make sense and she's going to find out why. Laura is an old style detective, a fan of Agatha Christie, and she won't be fooled by false leads. The scene then shifts to the home of Emily Decker, a famous writer of mystery novels who has hit a block. No matter what she does Emily cannot find the words for her next novel; then she begins to wonder if she's losing her mind when she receives a visitation from one of her characters. Milicent Baylor has apparently stepped off of the pages of an old manuscript and she's angry. She demands that Emily give her a stronger life force, so Emily begins to write stories set around the world for the two of them. As the eroticism of the stories increases, Milicent becomes more viable and Emily's obsession with her mushrooms as she also discovers what she has been shutting out of her own life. As their relationship grows, Emily loses more touch with reality until all there is in her world is Milicent; then Milicent threatens to leave, which Emily can't let happen. Meanwhile, the clues in McCallister's crime are beginning to point in a direction that might include Emily and/or Milicent. The question is how because Milicent isn't real, is she?

Rosalyn Wraight has written an intriguing book. It can be exasperating for the reader at first if you have preconceived notions about how a mystery should develop because this story certainly doesn't follow that track. For a while it seems as if Wraight is trying to trick the reader into reading an erotica book by calling it a mystery and there doesn't seem to be any reason to include the storyline about Laura McCallister at all. The Emily Decker story seems beyond far fetched, but the reader should bear with the writer. This is truly one of those books where everything comes together at the end and makes perfect sense. The pieces of the puzzle suddenly start falling together and it becomes clear that this is the way the story had to be written. The last five chapters of the book give it a terrific ending that make the book worth reading and it becomes clear that there were clues throughout the book as to what was coming that were probably missed or, if noted, discounted in the convergence of the other plot lines. So, when you're tempted to put the book down, keep reading. Like a good dinner, the dessert comes at the end.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars kindle reader, April 26, 2009
Hang in there and pay attention. The twists are subtle and by the end you'll want to go back and find the ones you missed. Downloading the next McAllister mystery now.
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