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Katherine V.
Forrest (1939 -)
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 Sleeping
Bones by
Katherine V. Forrest
When an elderly man is brutally slain at the La
Brea Tar Pits, LAPD Detective Kate Delafield finds herself digging
up startling information that could uncover humanity's ancient
past, and at the same time, expose the city's corrupt present.
With more at stake than just a pile of bones, Kate has to rebuild
the pieces of a timeless puzzle, and make sure they all
fit--before a remorseless killer decides to make her a part of
history...
"Katherine V. Forrest is a pioneer in lesbian
literature." --Lambda Book Report
"Few mystery writers combine such an intelligent take on
issues with such solid storytelling." --Publishers Weekly
"Kate Delafield...plies her trade with admirable efficiency
and more hard-to-come-by integrity." --New York Times Book
Review
 Liberty
Square by
Katherine V. Forrest
Long before
high-profile lesbian cops such as Laurie
R. King's Kate Martinelli were fighting for our attention, a
former Marine turned Los Angeles police detective named Kate
Delafield was doing some quietly effective ground-breaking of her
own under the expert guidance of Katherine V. Forrest. In Liberty
Square, Delafield is in Washington, D.C., for the 25th
anniversary reunion of her old Vietnam outfit. When all hell
breaks loose, it's Kate the cop who has to sort it out. Forrest's
writing is spare and her characters come to life quickly. Other
Delafield books in paperback include Amateur
City, The
Beverly Malibu, Murder
at the Nightwood Bar, and Murder
by Tradition.
 Apparition
Alley by
Katherine V. Forrest
LAPD homicide detective
Kate Delafield is shot in a routine drug bust. It's her first
line-of-fire accident, but when it turns out that the bullet that
winged her came not from the suspect's gun but from a police
weapon, the case takes on a different hue. Was Kate's injury the
result of a bias against gays and lesbians in the department? And
how does it tie into the charges levied against Luke Taggart, a
cop whose partner, a closeted gay man, was killed in what he
believes was a hate crime?
When Kate is reluctantly dragooned into
defending Taggart at a departmental hearing on charges that could
lead to a murder indictment, she tries to ignore the homophobia
that seems to be the common link between her shooting and the
murder of Taggart's partner. But the psychotherapy required after
an officer-involved shooting forces her to confront her guilt over
the suicide of another member of the department and her
ambivalence about outing her gay colleagues or even coming out of
the closet herself.
Forrest uses both the current tarnish on the
reputation of the Rampart-era LAPD and the tangled personal and
political implications of sexual diversity to good advantage in
this well-crafted mystery, the fifth in the Kate Delafield series.
The most effective scenes, in the office of the psychologist she's
forced to see, add another layer of complexity to Kate's
character. This is a heroine who continues to evolve and grow with
every new adventure. --Jane Adams
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Excerpt:
Katherine V. Forrest is twice winner of the Lambda
Literary Award for best mystery, and has been recently honored
with the Pioneer Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation. She
has been profiled in virtually every major lesbian and gay
publication in America, as well as in numerous magazines and
newspapers abroad. Senior fiction editor at Naiad Press from 1984
to 1994, she teaches classes and seminars on the craft of writing.
Katherine lives with her partner, Jo Hercus, and
a tabby cat named Stevie, in San Francisco.
Katherine welcomes your comments and would be
pleased to hear from you. She can be reached at: forrest@art-with-attitude.com
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By Devra First, Boston
Phoenix
Excerpt:
Police detective Kate Delafield is
interviewing Peri Layton, a hotshot female paleoanthropologist
whose father's body has just been found at the La Brea Tar Pits.
Not terribly romantic circumstances, but nonetheless, the two are
making eyes at each other. The officer shouldn't be flirting --
her girlfriend is waiting for her at home -- but she can't help
herself; the paleoanthropologist is awfully attractive.
A lesbian detective? You betcha. Cross Miss
Marple with k.d. lang, Sherlock Holmes with Candace Gingrich, and
you've got Kate Delafield: ex-Marine, homicide detective for the
LAPD, queer-as-the-day-is-long heroine of seven mystery novels and
counting. In Kate's newest vehicle, Sleeping Bones (Berkley
Prime Crime), it's up to her to find out who murdered Peri
Layton's dad. Could it have been the sexy paleoanthropologist
herself? Will anything come of Kate and Peri's attraction to each
other? What's the deal with the mysterious fossil that turns up at
the tar pits? And will Kate's new partner be homophobic?
The person who determines the answers to these
questions is writer Katherine V. Forrest, Kate Delafield's
creator...
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