The Solitary Twist: A Nell Fury Mystery

Nell Fury Mystery #2

by Elizabeth Pincus

P.I. Nell Fury's second adventure starts with a simple background check on a prospective bridegroom.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, LGBT, Lesbian Fiction

226 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1993

About the author

Elizabeth Pincus is a film critic and the author of the Nell Fury detective novel series.

Reviews

[Hamish Crawford · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the characters and the writing style immensely. Elizabeth Pincus gave the whole thing a snappy finesse without it seeming a too overt pastiche of hard-boiled fiction. Nell Fury's background and character are consistently strong and well-played, and her lesbian lifestyle is portrayed with a 1990s frankness that seems positively quaint nowadays. The plot starts more interestingly than it develops, and the conclusion does very much lapse into the cliches of this genre, but overall a very bold and inventive work that rang consistently true with me.

[Karla Huebner]

Fun to reread, and with some nice snippets of social commentary. Not that the premise is particularly believable, but I was willing to suspend disbelief after the initial absurdity of an airline passenger randomly telling SF-based lesbian PI Nell Fury that once they get to San Francisco she'd like to find a lesbian detective to hire. (That was really a bit much to swallow!) But, as I say, other than that it was enjoyable.