Blackmail, My Love: A Murder Mystery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781627780643)

Lambda Award 2015 for Best Gay Mystery!

Foreword Reviews' 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Winner

Josie O'Conner travels to San Francisco in 1951 to locate her gay brother, a private eye investigating a blackmail ring targeting lesbians and gay men. Jimmy's friends claim that just before he disappeared he became a rat, informing the cops on the bar community. Josie adopts Jimmy's trousers and wingtips, to clear his name, halt the blackmailers, and exact justice for too many queer corpses. Along the way she rubs shoulders with a sultry chanteuse running a dyke tavern called Pandora's Box, gets intimate with a red-headed madam operating a brothel from the Police Personnel Department, and conspires with the star of Finocchio's, a dive so disreputable it's off limits to servicemen -- so every man in uniform pays a visit.

Blackmail, My Love is an illustrated murder mystery deeply steeped in San Francisco's queer history, as established academic and first-time novelist Katie Gilmartin's diverse set of characters negotiate the risks of same-sex desire in a dangerous era. Set in such legendary locations as the Black Cat Cafe, the Fillmore, the Beat movement's North Beach, and the Tenderloin, Blackmail, My Love is a singular, stunning introduction to a new author and to gay noir.

Author: Katie Gilmartin
ISBN-10: 1627780645
ISBN-13: 9781627780643
Publisher: Cleis Press
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2014
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner
Award: IndieFab awards - Gold Medal Winner

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 08/27/2014
Booklist 11/01/2014 pg. 25
Publishers Weekly 11/17/2014
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001