If you like mysteries, whether you are lesbian, gay, bi, or simply 
gay-friendly, let me highly recommend Katherine Forrest's latest,
Murder by Tradition, winner of a Lambda Book Award.  I just finished
reading it, and I REALLY liked it!  Couldn't put it down.  (It's not
a high-brow book.  Just a good mystery novel.)  I won't say more because 
I don't want to spoil the plot for anyone, but here's the blurb on the 
back cover of the paperback (Naiad Press):

   From the most popular lesbian writer in America, Lambda 
   Literary Award winning Katherine V. Forrest...
   A new novel featuring the most celebrated lesbian detective 
   mystery fiction--in the most challenging case of her career.

   Young Teddie Crawford is dead from multiple stab wounds in
   a restaurant kitchen awash with blood.  LAPD homicide detective
   Kate Delafield is relentless in her pursuit and capture of his
   killer.  But bringing that killer to justice presents a whole
   new set of obstacles.

   The suspect claims self-defense--that Teddie Crawford made a
   homosexual advance and backed it up with a knife.  yet everything
   Kate learns about Teddie Crawford tells her that this attacker
   killed with deliberate intent.

   Kate finds herself increasingly isolated as she tries to shield
   her young lover from the brutal realities of this case.  And to
   develop proof of first degree murder, she must find clear answers
   to mystifying questions for the prosecuting attorney--a woman who
   has never before prosecuted a homicide case.

   Kate faces even greater pressure.  No one, especially Kate's partner,
   Ed Taylor, is anxious to aggressively pursue a case involving a dead
   gay man and his gay associates.  She herself has a personal stake
   in the trial:  the defense attorney is a man from her past.  A man
   with the power to expose the private life she has kept so separate
   from her life as a police officer.



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