Electra's Complex

by Emma Pérez

Electra Campos has kept her life cleanly divided. By week she tends to her academic duties and her students. Weekends she frequents the Down Under, a Chelsea sex club for women.

When her spiteful ex Isabel Cortez issues yet another petty threat, she brushes it off—until she finds Capital College’s dean in a pool of his own blood. At first, NYPD Detective Carolina Quinn seems concerned only in Electra’s details of finding the body. Then the interest grows intensely professional…and personal.

Why would the police think Electra had a motive for murder? She had no personal interaction with Dean Johnson. But his wife was no stranger to the Down Under, and Detective Quinn is extremely curious about every detail of Electra’s other life.

A Bella After Dark erotic, romantic mystery!

Genres: Erotica, Lesbian, LGBT, Mystery

264 pages, Paperback

First published April 21, 2015

About the author

Emma Pérez, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas/El Paso, has written numerous essays in feminist theory and is author of the novel, Gulf Dreams.

Reviews

[Tara · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had no idea what I was getting into with this book, but it was a wild ride. I've shelved it as erotic, and it is, but there is absolutely no romance to this book. It's a murder mystery where one of the potential suspects is also investigating the murder to the best of her ability. There's a lot of sex with multiple partners, but all of it ratchets up the tension.

I'm typically not a mystery person at all, but I'm so glad I read this. If you want something different, be sure to check it out.

Full review here: http://www.thelesbianreview.com/elect...

[Danni Mladenovic · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't know what happened... The whole idea of the plot was really good, but in my opinion, it was poorly delivered...

[LVLMLeah · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars
This book was so campy and somewhat hilarious. I rather enjoyed it. Yes, these are mostly horrible people and yes there is lots of sex, but short clips, not long drawn out sex and not all sex.

The mystery part was entertaining. It was like reading an erotic version of a Seinfeld show, where characters get into the most improbable and ridiculous situations. Not that well written, but for my weird taste, it was fun.

[Ola Hol · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny and ironic. Seems in a camp convention - the world of women where white cis-men are secondary and lame. A lot of erotic scenes which makes it a good book to read with one hand;) Better than redtube;>