Blind Leap

Blind Eye #2

by Diane Anderson-Minshall, Jacob Anderson-Minshall

The camera doesn't lie; but is the film worth killing for? When journalist Velvet Erickson's oldest friend, movie director Jeff Conant, takes a header off the Golden Gate Bridge, she refuses to believe his death was a suicide. Private investigator Yoshi Yakamota isn’t so sure. Still she agrees to investigate his death with her Blind Eye Detective Agency. The team members soon find themselves embroiled in everything from burglary and kidnapping to drug culture and backstabbing betrayals. As they inch closer to exposing the truth, new questions emerge. Has an independent filmmaker captured the events of fateful night? And will they all live long enough to see it, or will one of them join Jeff in his watery grave?

Genres: Mystery, Lesbian, Lesbian Fiction, Crime

296 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 17, 2007

About the author

Diane Anderson-Minshall is the executive editor of Curve magazine, the country's best-selling lesbian magazine. The co-founder & former executive editor of Girlfriends magazine and the co-founder & former editor/publisher of Alice magazine, Anderson-Minshall's writing-which focuses primarily on lesbian life, popular culture, travel, entertainment and celebrities-has appeared in dozens of magazines including Passport, Film Threat, Utne Reader, Wine X, India Currents, Teenage, Bitch, Seventeen, American Forests, Femme Fatale, Diva, The Advocate, Fabula, Bust, Natural Health, Venus, and numerous newspapers.

Her essays have also appeared in several anthologies including Reading The L Word: Outing Contemporary Television; Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine; Body Outlaws; Closer to Home: Bisexuality and Feminism; Young Wives Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership; 50 Ways to Support Gay & Lesbian Equality; and Tough Girls. Anderson-Minshall is the co-editor of the anthology Becoming: Young Ideas on Gender, Race and Sexuality and co-author of the upcoming Blind Eye mystery series. Diane was recently named one of PowerUp's 2006 Top Ten Amazing Women in Showbiz, for her work with lesbian filmmakers.

Reviews

[SilveringOfRose]

3.25 stars

I'm having some opinions about the characters and also about some of the views expressed in this one but once again. Too little time. I'll expand on it as soon as I can.

[Eero · Rating 4 out of 5]

Books story is told from point of the view of Blind Eye Detective agency's employees, which is owned and lead by blind woman, with japanese heritage, named Yoshi, who is also lesbian.

Story starts from news that Jeff Conant, who is very good friend of Velvet Ericson, who is Yoshis best friend and ex-lover, has leap from Golden Gate bridge. But Velvet don't belive that Jeff has commit suicide and ask Yoshi to investigate the matter.

Then story follows Yoshi and her employees as they investigate Jeffs live and discover that there are people who have benefit from Jeffs death, like his lover Tyron, a model and gay porn star who like sleep around, lesbian couple whose baby's father Jeff was and that Jeff wanted be more than convinient sperm source. And so on, story follows investigation and all of it' turn until end where we found out who was the real murderer and why murder was commited.

Book also tells us about personal life of our investigators and Velvet Ericson.

Book is intresting and promising, but there are few cliches which causes that I don't give it full 5 star. First Velvet is angsty bitch most of the time and I don't like reading people to angst. Second personality of characters stays very shallow trough the book, why reader don't really get to know them even as story is told from their point of view. Thrid nobody answering in their cell phone is very tiring plot twist.