East of Niece - Hardcover
On vacation in France, private detective Sydney Sloane and her lover, Leslie Washburn, find themselves embroiled in a murder investigation when the parents of Sydney's niece's secret husband, Gavin, die in a suspicious car accident.
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About the Author:
Randye Lordon is the author of five previous mysteries featuring Sydney Sloane, for which she was the winner of the Lambda Literary Award and a finalist for the Shamus Award. She lives in Amagansett, New York.
From Publishers Weekly:
Lambda Award winner and Shamus finalist Lordon's (Brotherly Love; Sister's Keeper; etc.) sixth Sydney Sloane novel should please her fans, but others may find it predictable and formulaic. At the urging of her lover/sidekick, Leslie, the perky New York City PI decides to take a vacation in the south of France. There they visit Sloane's niece, Vickie, who is living with an artist named Gavin. A succession of unpleasant surprises ensues: Vickie has married Gavin; his parents, Jules and Nan Mason, have died in a suspicious car accident; Gavin has disappeared; and the police, having upgraded the "accident" to homicide, want to question Gavin, their chief suspect. In addition, a mysterious somebody has ransacked the Masons' apartment looking for some incriminating item Gavin may have. Can "Aunt Sydney" sort it all out? Natch although she does it over several more dead bodies. The elements are as familiar as your face in the mirror. The villains introduce themselves; and the murderer, gun in hand, Sloane at bay, takes as long to explain everything as a diva does to expire in a death scene. Worse is that Lordon's dialogue is so often irritatingly cute. This is the kind of book people check out of the library by the armload. Still, it is a tribute to the author's matter-of-fact approach that her lesbian heroine should have such mainstream appeal.
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- PublisherMinotaur Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 031227114X
- ISBN 13 9780312271145
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages277
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