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Robin Miller Mystery #4
Someone to Watch
The fourth entry in this thrilling series finds Robin Miller hot on the trail of a sultry singer who doubles as a con artist.
259 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1995
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Jaye Maiman
9 books11 followersJaye Maiman is the author of the Lambda Literary Award Winning mystery series featuring lesbian travel writer and romance novelist Robin Miller.
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August 24, 2021
I'm at page 15 and can smell the infidelity already. A new record?
P. 20 another cheating foreshadowing.
P. 40 third cheating flag raised.
I really don't like how pages 44-45 read. KT is worried sick about her best friend and Robin slides over her, licks her ear, and is pissed off when she is brushed off. Then in bed Robin rubs herself against a motionless KT until the latter responds. Who are you to say things like "I wouldn’t let her until she was writhing beneath me" and "my fingers closing in on what K.T. so obviously needed." What the fuck Robin, not cool.
Scenes like this would never fly in contemporary lesbian fanfiction. Explicit consent is really big nowadays.
I've finished my reading and while I find some contrivances in the investigative plot it's overall good.
I was also pleasantly surprised by the fact that the protagonist made her peace with her break in relationship before jumping another woman's bones. Small progress from the previous novels, but better than the average for 1990s lesbian detective novel.
P. 20 another cheating foreshadowing.
P. 40 third cheating flag raised.
I really don't like how pages 44-45 read. KT is worried sick about her best friend and Robin slides over her, licks her ear, and is pissed off when she is brushed off. Then in bed Robin rubs herself against a motionless KT until the latter responds. Who are you to say things like "I wouldn’t let her until she was writhing beneath me" and "my fingers closing in on what K.T. so obviously needed." What the fuck Robin, not cool.
Scenes like this would never fly in contemporary lesbian fanfiction. Explicit consent is really big nowadays.
I've finished my reading and while I find some contrivances in the investigative plot it's overall good.
I was also pleasantly surprised by the fact that the protagonist made her peace with her break in relationship before jumping another woman's bones. Small progress from the previous novels, but better than the average for 1990s lesbian detective novel.
January 21, 2013
Seriously not impressed with this book. It's a prime example of why I quit reading most lesbian fiction, especially crime/mystery stories. Ms. Maiman tries to make her detective, Robin Miller, a badass, tough, aggressive, smartass dyke who pushes her witnesses and suspects around till they capitulate. Another thing I didn't like was that the suspect in the original case she was on was supposed to have scammed and stolen from Miller's client. But then once Miller meets her and finds out how hot and sexy and beautiful she is, all of a sudden the tables are conveniently turned and the client turns out to be the bad guy (woman, actually) and the crook is the innocent one. Yeah, right. But the murder mystery that she gets sucked into turns out fairly predictably.
July 12, 2012
This is a very intriguing mystery that kept my attention throughout.
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