Micky Knight Books In Publication Order
- Death by the Riverside (1990)
- Deaths of Jocasta (1992)
- The Intersection of Law and Desire (1995)
- Lost Daughters (1998)
- Death of a Dying Man (2009)
- Water Mark (2010)
- Ill Will (2012)
- The Shoal of Time (2013)
- The Girl on the Edge of Summer (2017)
- Not Dead Enough (2019)
Anthologies In Publication Order
- Men of the Mean Streets: Gay Noir (2011)
- Night Shadows: Queer Horror (2012)
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Death by the Riverside
The San Francisco Chronicle called Micky Knight, one of the most hard boiled and complex female detectives in print today. Kirkus Reviews claims, Redmann has the makings of a landmark series. Death by the Riverside is where it all began. Long out of print, the first adventure of Micky Knight introduces this sardonic and steamy New Orleans private detective and leads us into her world. I suppose I should have known that tasteful blondes like her didn t traipse down to my part of town and hire me to find their missing fiances. And I did have a feeling that she was going to lead me astray. I just thought that it was a direction I d like to stray in. Now two very bad things have happened to me a lot of not nice men are pointing guns in my direction and I think I ve fallen in love.
Deaths of Jocasta
Micky Knight had a pleasant evening to look forward to; she was running security at a swank party full of beautiful lesbians and gay men. A dead body ruins the affair. When more dead women are found the police target Dr. Cordelia James as the killer. The same Cordelia who broke Micky’s heart. As Micky works to expose the killer she tries to keep her heart hidden. But the killer and Micky keep getting closer to Cordelia…
Deaths of Jocasta has long been out of print and a prized find at used bookstores for years. Bella Books in proud to reissue this exciting mystery.
The Intersection of Law and Desire
It is fall in the steamy underworld of New Orleans, the seasons are changing, and so is tough detective Micky Knight’s life. Micky takes on the case of the daughter of a friend, who is believed to be sexually abused, not knowing that the investigation will lead her on a dangerous sexual odyssey. In Cissy s sleepless nights, Micky sees echoes of her own past, and she becomes caught up in a world where young girls are treated as commodities. While doing battle with seedy thugs and struggling to hold on to her rocky relationship with Dr. Cordelia James, Micky travels between the uptown opulence of the Sans Parel Club, one of New Orleans s exclusive private clubs, and a tawdry hole of a bar near the Desire Projects. Evil exists in both places, and the mystery culminates where law and desire intersect.
Lost Daughters
Micky Knight, a bayou bred and out of the closet New Orleans private investigator, takes on the cases of a widowed mother looking for her daughter and a tough gay boy hunting for his biological mother. When a young woman patient is murdered at Dr. Cordelia James’s clinic, it seems to be just a bizarre coincidence. But when another woman, also a patient, is murdered, these events reveal the frightening possibility that the crimes are more than just random chances. Even more alarming, the killer seems to know too much about the victims. As the killer circles ever closer to Micky and the lost daughter she is trying to find the coincidences become a grisly reality: the one characteristic all the victims share is that they dare to love other women.
Death of a Dying Man
Micky Knight just had to get into a butch pissing contest with the journalist partner of a famous doctor working with her lover, Cordelia James, to prove that the skills of a reporter are of no use to a P.I. Now she’s stuck with a drop dead gorgeous assistant and the case of a dying gay man looking for a child he might have fathered. These chains of events and an act of nature will tear Micky’s life apart in ways that may never be put back together. Fifth in the Lambda Award winning Micky Knight mystery series.
Water Mark
It’s just one more body in one more destroyed house. In New Orleans, a few months after Katrina, there are thousands of destroyed houses and hundreds of body yet to be found. Can one more matter? It does to Micky Knight as she takes on the quixotic search to find out who the woman was and why she might have died there. But is Micky searching for justice or just doing anything to avoid confronting the ways Katrina destroyed everything that had tied her to New Orleans? In a city that doesn t even have working stoplights, there seems little need for a private investigator. Her friends are all struggling with their own disrupted lives, lost jobs, destroyed homes. And the woman Micky thought she d be with forever, Cordelia James, hasn t returned. Micky s investigation leads to a tangle of greed and deceit that stretches back generations. Someone is using the destruction wrought by the flooding to finish what was started a hundred years ago. To stop them Micky will have to risk not just life and limb, but any chance to reconnect with Cordelia and rebuild the life she had before Katina. But if she doesn t stop them, a young Midwestern teenager whose only crime was wanting to help the destroyed city, will be the next body left in an abandoned house. The sixth Micky Knight mystery.
Ill Will
First, do no harm. But as New Orleans PI Micky Knight discovers, not every health care provider follows that dictum. She stumbles into a tangle of the true believers to the criminally callous, who use the suffering of others for their twisted ends. In a city slowly rebuilding after Katrina, one of the most devastated areas is health care, and the gaps in service are wide enough for the snake oil salesmen and the snakes themselves to crawl through. First, her investigation is driven by anger, but then it becomes personal as someone very close to Micky uses her cancer diagnosis to go where Micky cannot, into the heart of the evil where only the ill are allowed. Micky is her only lifeline out. Can Micky save her in time to get to the medical treatment she desperately needs to survive?The seventh Micky Knight mystery.
Men of the Mean Streets: Gay Noir
Noir has always been one of the most popular and darkest sub genres of the mystery field. Following in the footsteps of such masters of the form as James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett, some of the top writers of gay mystery explore this territory of amoral tough guys with a cynical view of the world by giving classic noir a gay twist. Edited by award winning author/editors Greg Herren and J.M. Redmann, Men of the Mean Streets changes the face of gay mystery and the reader may never look at gay life and culture in the same way again.
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