Stella Duffy

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Parallel Lies

Submitted by Karen on

Category: 
Crime Fiction
Author's Home Country: 
New Zealand
Sub Genre: 
Gay & Lesbian Fiction
Private Detective

Parallel Lies is a fast-paced and fiendishly plotted novel about a menage a trois that becomes a menage a deux when one of the trio is murdered. Which one of the two survivors was the murderer, and what have they got to hide? Things are never quite what they seem, and people are never quite who they say they are, in Stella Duffy's effortlessly entertaining new novel.

ISBN: 
1844080250
Location: 
Hollywood
Publisher: 
Virago
Year of Publication: 
2006

Mouths of Babes

Submitted by Karen on

Category: 
Crime Fiction
Author's Home Country: 
New Zealand
Sub Genre: 
Gay & Lesbian Fiction
Private Detective

Saz Martin is settling into motherhood with her partner Molly and their baby daughter Matilda. Saz has vowed not to take on any more private investigator cases, wanting nothing to threaten the peaceful life they have built together. But when her former school friend Will Gallagher -" the now famous TV presenter -" comes calling...

ISBN: 
1852428570
Location: 
London
New Zealand
Publisher: 
Serpents Tail
Year of Publication: 
2005

Fresh Flesh

Submitted by Karen on

Category: 
Crime Fiction
Author's Home Country: 
New Zealand
Sub Genre: 
Gay & Lesbian Fiction
Private Detective

Patrick Freeman, celebrity chef, with the legendary bad temper and the obligatory wild child wife... Chris Marquand, adopted son of wealthy parents, a successful doctor, father-to-be... Georgina Leyton, high powered lawyer and a beautiful bitch who's as cool as they come.... Matthew Godwin, owner of the hottest South London bar and a talent for scaring the life out of people with his mad rages. Four virtual strangers, unwittingly bound together by a dark secret from the past. And, after all these years, it's about to blow up in their faces.

ISBN: 
1852427116
Location: 
London
New Zealand
Publisher: 
Serpents Tail
Year of Publication: 
2000

Calendar Girl

Submitted by Karen on

Category: 
Crime Fiction
Author's Home Country: 
New Zealand
Sub Genre: 
Gay & Lesbian Fiction
Private Detective

Maggie has fallen for "the girl with the Kelly McGillis body", a mysterious woman who can't commit herself. Meanwhile Saz Martin is hot on the trail of a woman known only as September, who commute between London and New York in a whirlwind of drug smuggling, gambling and high-class prostitution.

ISBN: 
1852427124
Location: 
London
New Zealand
Publisher: 
Serpents Tail
Year of Publication: 
1999

Beneath the Blonde

Submitted by Karen on

Category: 
Crime Fiction
Author's Home Country: 
New Zealand
Sub Genre: 
Gay & Lesbian Fiction
Private Detective

Siobhan Forrester, lead singer of Beneath the Blonde, has everything a girl could want - stunning body, great voice, brilliant career, loving boyfriend.

Now she has a stalker too.

ISBN: 
1852427116
Location: 
London
New Zealand
Publisher: 
Serpents Tail
Year of Publication: 
2000

Wavewalker

Submitted by Karen on

Category: 
Crime Fiction
Author's Home Country: 
New Zealand
Sub Genre: 
Gay & Lesbian Fiction
Private Detective

Saz Martin, detective hero of "Calendar Girl", returns to investigate the activities of Dr Maxwell North, internationally acclaimed therapist, healer and "guru". She has been hired by a mystery employer, the Wavewalker.

ISBN: 
1852427124
Series: 
Saz Martin
Publisher: 
Serpents Tail
Year of Publication: 
1999

Stella Duffy

Submitted by Karen on

Author Information
Duffy, Stella

About the Author

Stella Duffy was born in London and brought up in Tokoroa New Zealand. She is also an actor, improvisor, comedian and occasional radio presenter.

She now lives in London and is married to writer Shelley Silas. For complete biographical details please wander off to her site http://www.tartcity.com/intro.html#stella

BENEATH THE BLONDE - Stella Duffy

Author Information
Book Title: 
Beneath the Blonde
Author Name: 
Stella Duffy
Author's Home Country: 
New Zealand
ISBN: 
1852427116
Categorisation
Category: 
Crime Fiction
Special Interests: 
Gay & Lesbian Fiction
Publisher: 
Serpents Tail
Year of Publication: 
1997

Book Review: 

Firstly, BENEATH THE BLONDE isn't the first in the Saz Martin series so you're just going to have to accept some back story to the main character and a reason for her past injuries.  As well as there being a backstory to her relationship with Molly (her live in girlfriend), ex-girlfriend Cassie and a bunch of other things that are pulled into this book.  
 
A lot of that understanding is going to be required because BENEATH THE BLONDE is as much about Saz and her reactions - to Siobhan, to Molly, to the band, the people around the band and the travelling.  The story of who is stalking Siobhan is told in first person chapters throughout the book, but the reasons and who this mysterious woman is only become clear as the book ramps up to a climax.  And the reasons are probably the best part of this book.  The build up is okay, the concentration on Saz and her life a bit distracting from the events around Siobhan but what is really interesting is that feeling of 1990's rock and roll / the difference between the "star" and the real person, and the way some people's lives are a whole lot more complicated than yours.
 

Currently Reading - Beneath the Blonde, Stella Duffy

Submitted by Karen on

Book Title: 
Beneath the Blonde
Author Name: 
Stella Duffy

Another one of those books that have been sitting here, patiently waiting for me to catch up - this is by NZ born author Stella Duffy.

"I would sit in your mother's kitchen and watch the sun come up.  The kitchen is blue.  I remember when your dad painted it.  He is dead now.  They both are.  You killed them.  Like you killed me.  Like you killed everyone in your past.  You do not know your mother and you do not know your father and you do not know me.  Because that would mean them all knowing who you were.  But I remember."

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