Alison Kaine, lesbian cop, enters the world of leather-dykes after a woman is brutally murdered at a Denver bar. In this fast-paced, yet slyly humorous novel, Allen confronts the sensitive issues of S/M, queer-bashers and women-identified sex workers.

Review

A book in which you don't have to pick out just the good parts - because the rest of it is a must read, too. --Marie Tharp, Bad Attitude

What drives this book is Kate Allen's excellent writing. She creates powerful, passionate women... --Mary E. Bradish, The Washington Blade

Allen's well-written murder mystery sports a heart-pounding ending. --Marie Kuda, Booklist

About the Author

Kate Allen writes about the complexities and contradictions of lesbian life with a unique and wonderful style. The perfect writer for readers who are hungry for something new, for something humorous and erotic.

Helping to build an adobe house on lesbian land sounds like a fine change of pace to Denver cop Alison Kaine. She knows that she has some differences of philosophy with the land dykes, but they can work it out for one weekend, right? WRONG! Especially when her dominatrix lover, Stacy, shows up unexpectedly.

Review

While slicing and dicing enough dyke sacred cows to fill a refrigerator truck, Kate Allen sends poor Alison through eighteen kinds of mayhem, but still finds time to investigate the real allegiances we owe to our friends and to our communities. By turns harrowing and hilarious, this intricate puzzler is Allens best yet. --Linnea Due Express Weekly

About the Author

Kate Allen writes about the complexities and contradictions of lesbian life with a unique and wonderful style. The perfect writer for readers who are hungry for something new for something humorous and erotic.

Lesbian cop Alison Kaine and her friend Michelle find an author of steamy lesbian romances dead in her bathtub. She and her riotous extended family, including her very sexy girlfriend, Stacy, are back and eager to help investigate - that is, unless they're busy helping Liz compete for the title of Ms. Leather Colorado.

Review

Allens well-written murder mystery sports a heart-pounding ending on the way to it exploring both polarization in the lesbian communtiy over S/M and issues of violence towards women. --Marie Kuda - Booklist

Erotic and fast-paced, its a great read. It is refreshing to hear a writer whose voice comes through so strongly and with such unapologetic conviction. One of the finest looks in the S/M community and one long overdue. --Cris Newport - Bay Windows

Kate Allen presents issues facing the lesbian community with a humor and a humanity seldom seen in books today. --Marie Tharp - Bad Attitudes More intricate, powerfully writeen, and realistic than most lesbian mysteries. A compelling read for the lesbian mystery buff. --Mary Huebscher, WLW Journal --Marie Tharp and Mary Huebscher

About the Author

Kate Allen writes about the complexities and contradictions of lesbian life with a unique and wonderful style. The perfect writer for readers who are hungry for something new or for something humorous and erotic.

You promised No Dead Bodies! Mistress Anastasia, the lovely leather femme has every right to be irritated with her butch girlfriend, Alison Kaine. A mystery is the last thing she needs at her leather event. On leave from the Denver PD and relegated to driving the airport shuttle, Alison cannot ignore the undercurrent of malice and deception beneath the bantering and blatant sexuality. Can Alison work quickly enough to uncover old feuds and secrets - or will someone go home as cargo?

Review

Cool characters, kinky sex and a neat little plot twist. --Boston Gay Paper

These books function a bit like Bechdel's comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For - messy love affairs, volatile community issues - the basic stuff of dyke drama. --Sojourner

Good dialogue, believable characters, humor and insight-sounds like a quadruple threat to me. --Bay Area Reporter

About the Author

Kate Allen writes about the complexities and contradictions of lesbian life with a unique and wonderful style. The perfect writer for readers who are hungry for something new for something humorous and erotic.