A Nice Clean Murder

Kate Ryan Mysteries #2

by Kate Sweeney

A Nice Clean Murder, the second in the Kate Ryan Mysteries series, finds Kate's brother-in-law, Mac, heir to a small family estate in the wild west of Ireland; bequeathed to him by an uncle he barely knew. Kate finds this a little suspicious, but as her family, she too is excited about Mac's inheritance. When a young Irishman collapses on Kate's doorstep, her suspicions are justified. She is now sure that Mac's Uncle Brian did not 'accidentally fall off the cliff' as reported. So, she agrees to accompany Mac and Teri on their trip across the Atlantic. It's good timing too, since things between Kate and Dr. Maggie Winfield are a little tense-it seems the elusive Kate is still chasing her demons. Join Kate Ryan and her family on a historic, merry romp of murder and betrayal along the romantic, rugged coast of the Emerald Isle.

Genres: Mystery, Lesbian, LGBT

252 pages, Paperback

First published December 18, 2006

About the author

Kate Sweeney was the 2007 recipient of the Golden Crown Literary Society award for Debut Author for She Waits, the first in the Kate Ryan Mystery series, which was also nominated for the Lambda Literary Society award for Lesbian Mystery.

The second in the series, A Nice Clean Murder, was nominated the Lambda this year for Lesbian Mystery, and is a nominee for GCLS award in the Mystery category. Her novel Away from the Dawn released in August 2007 is also nominated for the GCLS award for Speculative Fiction. She is also a contributing author for the anthology Wild Nights: (Mostly) True Stories of Women Loving Women, published by Bella Books.

Born in Chicago, Kate resides in Villa Park, Illinois, where she works as an office manager—no glamour here, folks; it pays the bills. Humor is deeply embedded in Kate’s DNA. She sincerely hopes you will see this when you read her novels, short stories, and other works.

Reviews

[Ocean Zen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of the best books in the series and sets up the next several books.