Event: 2nd Annual Mystery Panel w/ Anthony Bidulka, Ellen Hart & Greg Herren

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Date: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14
Time: @ 7:30PM
Place: A Different Light
489 Castro Street
San Francisco, CA 94114

2ND ANNUAL LGBT MYSTERY PANEL with Anthony Bidulka, Ellen Hart, Greg Herren
Free and Open to the Public

Gay mystery writers Bidulka and Herren return to A Different Light and bring Ellen Hart along this time. The three authors read and sign from their 2010 books and discuss the mystery genre's relevance to the LGBT community.

Anthony Bidulka (Date with a Sheesha)
Paperback: 262 pages
Publisher: Insomniac Press (May 27, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1897178905
ISBN-13: 978-1897178904
Amazon: Date with a Sheesha: A Russell Quant Mystery

Anthony Bidulka’s mystery series tells the story of a world-traveling, wine-swilling, wise-cracking, gay, Canadian private detective living a big life in a small city. The Russell Quant series was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for Best Men’s Mystery and was recently shortlisted for Crime Writers of Canada Book of the Year.

From the glitzy, flamboyant, mega-high rises of Dubai, to the frankincense fields of Oman and scorching sand dunes of Saudi Arabia, PI Russell Quant is on one heckuva magical carpet ride. In Date with a Sheesha, Quant embarks upon a perilous journey that pits him against a deceitful Bedouin sheikh, shifty souk merchants, a snooty museum curator, quirky antique carpet enthusiasts and an underground club for “fabulous men.”

Ellen Hart (Wicked Games)
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Bella Books; Reprint edition (August 17, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594931852
ISBN-13: 978-1594931857
Amazon: Wicked Games (A Jane Lawless Mystery)

“Ellen Hart is The Lambda Literary Award and Minnesota Book Award-wining author of 16 Jane Lawless mysteries and knows how to spin a tale full of complex plot lines, fast-paced actio, and characters skilled in deception. Fans of the Lawless series and readers who enjoy gay/lesbian mysteries will not be disappointed in Wicked Games.

When Annie Archer turns up at Minneapolis's Xanadu Club, its owner, lesbian restauranteur and amateur sleuth Jane Lawless, offers her a job and takes on the task of finding Annie's long-missing father.” (Library Journal, Starred Review)

Greg Herren (Vieux Carre Voodoo)
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books (May 18, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1602821526
ISBN-13: 978-1602821521
Amazon: Vieux Carre Voodoo (Scotty Bradley Series)

Greg Herren is the author of twelve novels, including the award winning Murder in the Rue Chartres, called by the New Orleans Times-Piacyune “the most honest piece of writing about post-Katrina New Orleans.”

In Vieux Carre Voodoo, former go-go boy turned detective Scotty Bradley is back! When an old family friend apparently commits suicide from his French Quarter balcony, Scotty’s life accelerates from boring to exciting again in a nanosecond. Why would anyone want the old man dead, and what were they looking for in his ransacked apartment? It’s up to Scotty, Frank, his crazy family, and friends to get to the bottom of this bizarre mystery—and when an old, all-too-familiar face turns up, it’s not just Scotty’s life that’s in danger, but his heart.

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Comments

Ellen Hart

[saruby.livejournal.com]

Thanks for mentioning Ellen Hart. It's nice to see well-written books with lesbian protagonists, since so much of what's out there is M/M. I read all the Jane Lawless books published before 2000, but lost track of her when my local bookstores stopped shelving her books. Looking at her website I see I have a lot to catch up on. Glad to know she is still publishing. I'll have to hunt them down.

Re: Ellen Hart

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

my pleasure, I usually don't read mysteries (some exceptions but not much) so I'm glad to be able to promote her in some way.