Publisher Description

When a good friend's beloved granddaughter is murdered, our ambisexual downsized-social-worker and her cat, Bunnywit, are enlisted to help solve the case. For the police, Madeline is just one more dead sex worker - so it is down to our hero and her friends to uncover what happened to her (though not the cat. The cat mainly sulks.)

With humour, sarcasm and a good dose of irony, our protagonist swaggers through the mean streets of a Canadian city tracking down leads to get the bad guy. Aided by a love of mystery fiction the gang dives deep into the underbelly of city life.

What at first seems an average street killing is actually the surface of a grandiose and glittering set of criminal schemes...

Author Biography

Candas Jane Dorsey is the award-winning author of science fiction novels Black Wine, A Paradigm of Earth, Machine Sex and Other Stories, Vanilla and Other Stories, and Ice and Other Stories. This is her first mystery series. She is a writer, editor, former publisher, community advocate, and activist living in Edmonton, Alberta.

Review

'Candas Jane Dorsey's terrific mysteries are what would happen if RaymondChandler and Frank N. Furter collaborated on cozies and the heroinewere a pansexual private detective with heart, smarts, and a T-shirt sayingMASCARA IS THE NEW NOIR. There's female bonding, sex (lots of it),and a cat or two. You'll scream with laughter, you'll checkmark phrases.And then, if you're a nice person and love your friends, you'll put thesebooks in their hands and insist they read them too.' - Sarah Smith, author ofthe New York Times Notable Book THE VANISHED CHILD

'A little Hammett, a little Hiaasen, a little Lot 49, this is the first book in aseries that demands to be read with writerly intention... The author seeks toshake the reader out of submission and into a clearer vision and examinationof the underpinnings of the genre - the real crime and grime andmeanness of the streets on which it's set. The laughs are thrown in for free' -Janice MacDonald, author of the Randy Craig Mystery series

Long Description

Unique crimes call for unique detectives... When a good friend's beloved granddaughter is murdered, our ambisexual downsized-social-worker and her cat, Bunnywit, are enlisted to help solve the case. For the police, Madeline is just one more dead sex worker - so it is down to our hero and her friends to uncover what happened to her (though not the cat. The cat mainly sulks.) With humour, sarcasm and a good dose of irony, our protagonist swaggers through the mean streets of a Canadian city tracking down leads to get the bad guy. Aided by a love of mystery fiction the gang dives deep into the underbelly of city life. What at first seems an average street killing is actually the surface of a grandiose and glittering set of criminal schemes...

Review Text

'Candas Jane Dorsey's terrific mysteries are what would happen if Raymond Chandler and Frank N. Furter collaborated on cozies and the heroine were a pansexual private detective with heart, smarts, and a T-shirt saying MASCARA IS THE NEW NOIR. There's female bonding, sex (lots of it), and a cat or two. You'll scream with laughter, you'll checkmark phrases. And then, if you're a nice person and love your friends, you'll put these books in their hands and insist they read them too.' - Sarah Smith, author of the New York Times Notable Book THE VANISHED CHILD 'A little Hammett, a little Hiaasen, a little Lot 49, this is the first book in a series that demands to be read with writerly intention... The author seeks to shake the reader out of submission and into a clearer vision and examination of the underpinnings of the genre - the real crime and grime and meanness of the streets on which it's set. The laughs are thrown in for free' - Janice MacDonald, author of the Randy Craig Mystery series

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