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Under The Saltwater Moon
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The Adventures of Isabel by Candas Jane Dorsey

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This book’s title comes from a poem by Ogden Nash in which a little girl, Isabel, overcomes four dangerous monsters armed with only calm self-confidence. In this novel, the monsters include a botoxed Barbie and an illegal drug manufacturer. Oddly, th This book’s title comes from a poem by Ogden Nash in which a little girl, Isabel, overcomes four dangerous monsters armed with only calm self-confidence. In this novel, the monsters include a botoxed Barbie and an illegal drug manufacturer. Oddly, the main character’s name is never given, but we do know that it is not Isabel. The book’s attachment to a poem reminds me of a fairly well-known lesbian short film from Korea called “Alice: Crack of the Season,” which is more easily understood if you know the traditional folk story to which it refers.

The truth is, though, the continual reference to the Nash poem bothers me a little. First, it is unnecessary unless she is confessing to getting some of her plot ideas from it. And second, using such ideas tends to make your own story veer in directions you don’t want them to go. Still, most writers steal, every writer borrows, so maybe it refreshing for Dorsey to come so clean so often.

And the author’s truthfulness goes way beyond this, as she adopts a “dear reader” point of view in which she not only talks to us as friends, but keeps us abreast of exactly how she is writing the novel, as well as all the bumps in the road. One of these bumps is her unwillingness to have her first-person-point-of-view narrator recount a scene in which she is not present. Instead of the “he-said, she-said” recounting of another character, often including quotes within quotes, Dorsey chooses to switch the narration to that person’s third-person point of view. Although this ruins the purity of the whole, that purity is trumped by the readability of the scenes. And in furnishing us with her odd decisions maybe she is creating some kind of purity in itself.

The narrator, who is nameless for no apparent reason, is currently unemployed social worker whose former job brought her into contact with a lot of different people—prostitutes, drug addicts, other social services workers, and police. She lives in a small apartment house in a fairly run-down neighborhood with her cat, who she claims to dislike but secretly adores. In fact, Bunnywit is one of the most fleshed-out animal characters I have seen in lesbian mystery fiction.

As far as the plot goes, a rich woman that the narrator knows learns that her granddaughter Maddie—a prostitute and recovering drug user—has been murdered and asks the narrator to look into the matter because of her knowledge of the community. She is helped to investigate by a police officer she knows from her former job, a professional crossdresser, and the narrator’s uber-Christian cousin Thelma. There is also a homeless woman living in the subway that takes to same-sex sex with said narrator like a Chef Boyardee eater takes to Spaghetti a la Bruzzi in a high-class Italian restaurant.

At every point in my reading of this novel—despite my reservations about withholding the narrator’s name—the number 4 kept running through my mind. And a 4-rating it is, high enough to recommend to everyone but not quite enough to write to the author for an autographed copy.

Final Rating: 4

Note: I listened to the audiobook version of this novel that was available on Hoopla in October, 2025.

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What's the Matter with Mary Jane? by Candas Jane Dorsey

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A few months have passed since the resolution of the case documented in book 1, although the nameless narrator is by no means over the injuries she sustained. An old college friend—now a famous travel writer—looks her up after 20 years. It seems that A few months have passed since the resolution of the case documented in book 1, although the nameless narrator is by no means over the injuries she sustained. An old college friend—now a famous travel writer—looks her up after 20 years. It seems that the writer, Pris, has spent the last year and a half recovering from injuries of her own—suffered at the hands of a vicious mugger. She asks the narrator to look into that attack and see if it was anything other than random violence. Then the mugger—who is out of prison on parole for some reason—is found dead with a knife in him And with Pris on the scene.

Just as book 1 was based on a poem by Ogden Nash, What’s the Matter with Mary Jane is based on the poem “Rice Pudding,” by A.A. Milne, of Winnie the Pooh fame. It chronicles the whimsical and unpredictable nature of children. And, as I mentioned in my earlier review of book 1, I am not a big fan of this type of inspiration—even less so sine this one doesn’t seem to mirror the plot of the novel as well as the first one did. However, since she uses it consistently and throughout the series, I have to consider it part of her brand and give her—at least partially—the benefit of the doubt.

With her girlfriend Jian off with the circus, the sexually active narrator hooks up with a new partner—a man this time. Trigger warning to those who do not like hetero sex, although it is not described. Two other bisexual protagonists—Kristen Lepionka’s Roxane Weary and Stephen Spotswood’s Willowjean Parker—also settle for men upon occasion. The difference in my opinion is that the relationships in the Lepionka and Spotswood books are organic—very much in line with the characters’ preferences. And although I think it’s entirely believable when our unnamed narrator mentions that she once slept with her police friend, the love affair between her and the billionaire Mason seemed forced or fake or both. His protestations of eternal love are sappy. Full disclosure here, though: I man have gotten a false impression due to the way that the narrator of the audiobook I listened to interpreted the character.

In any case, I thought that the book and its plot fell off the same cliff that sealed the fate of some of its characters. The one really interesting idea in the book is the “smart paper” that two of the characters invent. The author tells us that she has never heard of such a thing before except in SF novels. Me neither, but a similar invention appears in at least one Philip K. Dick novel.

The author is a smart cookie—she knows a lot about literature and about the science of writing and continues to deconstruct her own writing which I like very much. Stil, the novel as a whole did not leave me with a positive feeling. I’m suggesting somewhere between a 3 and 4 depending on your own prejudices.

Final Rating: 3.5

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This is described on the front cover as “A novel with murder,” and so it is. In other words, it reads and is constructed like a typical work of literature, not a mystery. The author’s style is spare, not flowery, but it gets the job done. It’s a book This is described on the front cover as “A novel with murder,” and so it is. In other words, it reads and is constructed like a typical work of literature, not a mystery. The author’s style is spare, not flowery, but it gets the job done. It’s a book that after the first chapter or two, I assumed would eventually get a rating of about 2 stars, but the slow start is both deceptive and deliberate. The mystery and its intrigue unfold slowly, like the petals of a rose. This is a mystery for travelers and academics and those who don’t mind a good deal of foreplay before the suspenseful climax.

Professor Janet McMillan travels from home in Minnesota to Providentiales, in The Turks and Caicos Islands, to write an economic history of the island. In her quest, she finds a world of drugs, blackmail, infidelity, voodoo, murder, and a century-old scandal. Pretty heady stuff for a stuffy professor, but to make matters worse, the formerly straight professor finds herself having feelings for Michelle Sanders, a young woman from Martinique who is married to the chef of one of the resort hotels.

The author was once a sailor, so her descriptions of the Turks and Caicos Islands are lush, inviting, and reliable. Likewise her descriptions of the history of Provo and its reliance for many years on gathering and exporting salt.

Despite this idyllic setting, though, there is a different tone to this book; almost a resignation that life is not meant to be happy, that things are not meant to turn out well. On one level, yes, Provo is a beautiful paradise, but it is so underpinned with corruption that it’s not hard to see how its residents might begin to take drug running and suspicious deaths in stride and have no real hope for tranquility in their lives. In a similar manner, some of its residents, like Michelle—whose marriage outwardly seems to be an untroubled one—are having to seek out pleasure surreptitiously, living, as it were, under the surface of their real lives. Even the mysteries have to do with double lives—one secret, one normal.

There are a lot of villains in this one. Some get their comeuppance and some don’t. The important thing is that—as Janet comes to understand—there can be both change and hope. Despite a few left-out words in the text (and the fact that the author’s name is misspelled on the back cover), give this one a 3.9 and reward it by maybe reading one of the author’s other books.

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Accidental Killer (The Sarah White Mysteries #1)
by Tong Zhang (Goodreads Author)

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The digital publishing revolution began in 2009, when both Amazon and Smashwords enabled authors to publish their own books in electronic form. If these authors did their own formatting, cover design, editing, and proofreading, e-book publishing coul The digital publishing revolution began in 2009, when both Amazon and Smashwords enabled authors to publish their own books in electronic form. If these authors did their own formatting, cover design, editing, and proofreading, e-book publishing could be accomplished virtually for free. This allowed thousands of amateur authors to publish their own books without having to go through the horrible process of getting an agent or trying to get their manuscripts through the transom of a publishing house. It also allowed small specialty houses, like lesbian-oriented Bella Books, to acquire hundreds of out-or-print titles—mostly from the defunct Naiad Books—and make them available to a new generation of readers.

One of the downsides of this e-book revolution is less rigorous quality control. Without that attractive cover, and with only a friend or relative to proof or format a manuscript, a great many books of inferior quality have come into the marketplace. Unfortunately, Tong Zhang’s Accidental Killer is one of these.

Here’s a brief rundown of the plot. Sarah White is a novelist and software programmer. She is evidently dong research for a new novel when an old college friend—now a computer programmer—is murdered for his newest program. Luckily—at least for his program but maybe not for Sarah—he had given it to Sarah for safekeeping. And of course, Sarah has to go on the search for his killer and the reason behind the killing. Well, she might have saved herself the trouble. The actual killer is crippled in a car wreck and the man that hired him has an epiphany while in a fasting retreat and calls the FBI to confess. But at least Sarah gave it the old college try.

Another result of the technological revolution are peer reviews. No longer to we have to wait for the New York Times to come out to see how our favorite authors fare. In fact, venues for lesbian mysteries have always been few and far between. Now all of us can express our opinions on whatever we read—or even eat and drink. Yet even this has a downside. Untrained readers often do not seem to know the difference between very bad and very good writing. A reader’s honest opinion cannot be gainsaid, yet giving a good review to a bad book threatens to water down literature and erode the fabric of art as a whole. Here are some phrases from reviewers of Accidental Killer, for instance. “well written, well paced,” “brilliantly written,” “great,” “really great,” “terrific.” You get the picture. The same is true with ratings, two reviewers that gave the book 5 stars also said that the series “has potential” and was “promising,” descriptors that traditionally go with 3 stars, not 5.

In fact, Accidental Killer is not “well written” and it's not “great”. The best that can be said for it is that it was written at all—a to-be-envied accomplishment as I have said several times before in other reviews. But just because something is written does not mean that it should be read. Zhang and her proofreader and copyeditor don’t’ seem to have even a suspicion of what should make up a novel and how it should be crafted. It is absolutely filled with clumsy points of view, typos, jumbled scenes, stilted dialogue (“I’ll not fail you as I have given you my word,” says the killer to his boss) and a lot of showing versus telling. In addition, I suspect that English is Zhang’s second language.

Bottom line, I am being kind when I say to give this one somewhere less than 2 stars and go on to something else.

I read a review copy of this book which was kindly provided in electronic form by the publisher through Lesbrary.

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White Noise
by Eve Zaremba

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Like The Butterfly Effect this, the last book in the Helen Keremos series, is written in the third person—there are even places where it looks like it may have begun as first person but was changed at the last minute. Also like The Butterfly Effect, Like The Butterfly Effect this, the last book in the Helen Keremos series, is written in the third person—there are even places where it looks like it may have begun as first person but was changed at the last minute. Also like The Butterfly Effect, this one is far inferior to the first four. So much so, in fact, that I can’t help but suspect think that Eve Zaremba—or her publisher—paid a ghost writer to do the bulk of the writing of these two books.

I know that’s a pretty heavy thing to say, but not only has the point of view changed, but the style of writing has changed as well as most of Helen’s personality. For instance, the Helen of Beyond Hope would never say anything as juvenile as “Go home. Do not pass Go” or “Am I right or am I right?” And she would never say anything as fuddy-duddyish as “You’ve got your nerve lecturing me, Sonny Burke.” The book has a different feel altogether; an uncomfortable feel. Certainly she is less the superwoman here as elsewhere, and ordinariness just doesn’t suit her. Too, 20 years seem to have passed somewhere as Helen—about 36 in the first book—is suddenly 59. Did Zaremba forget her character’s age, or did the ghost writer just not bother to read the other novels? Heck, she even drinks Scotch now—in the first book she did not care for the stuff.

As to the plot, well, Helen gets to Vancouver at last—it only took her 6 books to get there, but she is finally home—with Julie Piper, the girlfriend she picked up in Japan. But she’s not there long before Sonny Burke—who, like Julie, is a character we first met in—you guessed it, The Butterfly Effect flies into Canada and hires Helen to help him escape from bandits unknown. Or at least he says they’re unknown. So Helen has to try to find out the truth about the men who are tailing him—and get the real truth out of Sonny as well.

If I’m going to be completely honest, the novel is set up pretty well, a couple of small incidents foreshadow bigger things to come; one group of bandits turns into another, then another—and some are not really bandits at all. All of these things help to move the book along. On the other hand, the descriptions of the islands off Vancouver are far too lengthy—even superfluous. The author or her ghost even invents a fictitious island for no apparent reason, as it is not really important to the plot. The existence of the real islands off Vancouver, however, with their small lesbian communities, will be of interest to most readers.

Oh yes, Helen finally manages to get to the bottom of things and the series comes to kind of a placid satisfying end. But without the snappy, dour, and no-nonsense Helen I came to love and respect in Work for a Million, White Noise, is disappointing indeed.

I read what seems to be the first Second Story printing of this novel.

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The Butterfly Effect (A Helen Keremos Mystery)
by Eve Zaremba

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Uneasy Lies (A Helen Keremos Mystery)
by Eve Zaremba

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The fourth book in the Helen Keremos mystery series finds Helen back in Toronto. Her affair with Alice Caplan, who we met in Beyond Hope is getting rocky, so when another of her exes—Clare Harwood—offers her a job as temporary Head of Security in a l The fourth book in the Helen Keremos mystery series finds Helen back in Toronto. Her affair with Alice Caplan, who we met in Beyond Hope is getting rocky, so when another of her exes—Clare Harwood—offers her a job as temporary Head of Security in a luxury condo development, she jumps at the chance for a change of scenery—and some easy money. Well, maybe easy is not the proper word because one of the tenants is murdered on Helen’s first day on the job.

Turns out that the murdered man worked for an eco-organization looking into the possibility that the next phase of the development may be planned in an area that has biological waste. Was the man killed because he had found such waste, or was it something more personal, like his wife having an affair or maybe just an accident? That’s what Helen must find out, despite the fact that Detective Staff Sergeant Francis Malory (who we first met in Work for a Million) is also on the case.

Helen has turned 42 in this book and has been with Alice for several months. They got together after Alice returned from the commune in the Kootenays to pursue an acting career. Although the sex with Alice is not particularly graphic, it is at least sex—the first in a Helen Keremos novel. The truth is, though, that Helen’s relationship with Alice is not very well done—maybe a reason why Zaremba was so loathe to add a sex scene—or even a love scene—into the Keremos series. Even their dialogue is less than scintillating—a far cry from Helen’s usual snappy and tough repartee.

But except for this—and after all, one can’t really talk to one’s lover like we do to criminals, can one?—Uneasy Lies is on a level with the last two novels in the series, and the level is a high one. Helen is always one step ahead of her adversaries and manages to identify the murderer despite a ton of misinformation from almost every suspect. Like Work for a Million and A Reason to Kill, this is a whodunit in which all of the characters are prime suspects. It is also one that should be on your reading list.

I read the ebook of this novel which I downloaded on 5/28/2016. There are no chapter designations. It seems obvious that the e-book is the result of a scan of the paperback version into Word using character recognition software. It needs another read-through by either author or publisher.

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