Estranged from her longtime partner, hanging on to newfound sobriety by her fingernails, and suffering from PTSD after decades of working bloody crime scenes and depraved murders, Delafield is not doing well. Delafield, the 10th volume, opens in 2012 with Kate now retired and living in a small desert community in Yucca Valley. An LGBTQ literary icon, she remains - as do so many other accomplished queer writers - less well known to the general reading public despite critical praise for her Kate Delafield mysteries, her best-known work.įorrest introduced Kate Delafield, an LAPD homicide detective, in 1984’s Amateur City. Forrest is one of the most revered.įorrest is a genre-spanning writer whose work encompasses science fiction, romance, and political novels written over a 40-year period since the publication of her first book, Curious Wine, in 1983. Woods), Latinx writers (Manuel Ramos, Lucha Corpi), and a group of gay and lesbian writers among whom Katherine V. These included feminist writers (Sara Paretsky), Black writers (Walter Mosley, Paula L. BEGINNING IN THE last part of the century, crime fiction underwent a sea change as writers from communities that had served as the demimonde of classic noir - exotic and/or underworld backdrops for the antics of white, straight, male protagonists - took center stage to tell their stories in their own voices.
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