Sleeping Bones: A Kate Delafield Mystery - Hardcover

Forrest, Katherine V.

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9780425170298: Sleeping Bones: A Kate Delafield Mystery

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ISBN 10: 0425170292 ISBN 13: 9780425170298

Publisher: Berkley Hardcover, 1999

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No bones about it. "L.A. policewoman Kate Delafield has been the most acclaimed of the lesbian detectives."--Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

"Ms. Forrest's Los Angeles homicide detective Kate Delafield makes a strong impression...[she] plies her trade with admirable efficiency and more hard-to-come-by integrity."--New York Times Book Review

L.A.P.D. Detective Kate Delafield returns--with an iron-willed female lieutenant as her new boss--in a murder investigation as sticky as the La Brea Tar Pits, which happens to be the scene of the crime. Kate is quickly drawn into a mystery which could uncover the truth of humanity's ancient past, or expose the corruption of the present. And everyone involved--from an alluring scientist with a dark secret to a treacherous CIA officer with his own agenda--is suspect. Author Katherine V. Forrest is in top form in this timeless puzzle of a mystery.

"Few mystery writers combine such an intelligent take on issues with such solid storytelling."--Publishers Weekly

"A well-rounded, expertly developed character."--Booklist

"A pioneer in lesbian literature."--Lambda Book Report

* Katherine V. Forrest is a two-time Lambda Award-winning author, and one of the most well-known and popular lesbian authors
* Apparition Alley was nominated for a Lambda Award
* The hardcover edition of Apparition Alley was #1 on Lambda Book Report and The Advocate bestseller lists

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About the Author:

Katherine V. Forrest, two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Mystery, is the author of Curious Wine, one of the bestselling lesbian novels of all time; Liberty Square, also nominated for a Lambda Award; and a number of other acclaimed works of fiction. Her novel Murder at the Nightwood Bar is a forthcoming film by director Tim Hunter (River's Edge).

From Publishers Weekly:

Lambda Award-winner Forrest seems to have lost some of her luster in her latest Kate Delafield mystery (after 1997's Apparition Alley). The usually cool Delafield, an LAPD detective, is unnerved when she and her new partner, rookie Joe Cameron, are called in to examine the body of well-known anthropologist Herman Layton, who has turned up dead at the famous La Brea Tar Pits with a puncture wound near his kidney. When Delafield and Cameron notify the victim's next of kin, they find out that Layton's daughter, Peri, is herself a world-renowned paleoanthropologist, whose career promises to surpass that of her mentorsAthe infamous Leakey family. The case takes an unusual turn after the discovery of a jawbone that resembles that of the two-million-year-old Peking Man, whose remains were lost nearly 30 years ago. Later, Delafield and Cameron learn of Herman Layton's involvement in the U.S. government's covert attempt to move the Peking Man from China for safekeeping after the Japanese invasion of WWII, an episode that left the adventurous anthropologist ostracized by his colleagues. The link between Peking Man and Layton's murder seems ironclad after CIA agent Nicholas Whitby appears and begins meddling in the case. Meanwhile, Delafield grapples with a shocking family secret revealed by her Aunt Agnes. Though the book has many action-packed scenes, Forrest fails to convincingly develop her various story lines, and several of the climaxes are far-fetched. Delafield remains an engaging protagonist, but the novel's turbulent events leave her, surprisingly, unchanged. Agent, Charlotte Sheedy. (Sept.)
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