Created by J.M. Redmann
Pseudonym of Jean Redmann
Other pseudonyms include R. Jean Reid
(1955–)
Micky has taken more than one on the chin over this long-running series, and she’s not afraid of dishing it out, even as she becomes less and less enchanted by the Big Easy.
Morebutch than fem, this one hard-boiled dyke, according to Jean Swanson and Dean James in By a Woman’s Hand (1996), a who’s-who of (then) contemporary women writers of crime and mystery fiction.
“I really like the character, though I don’t always like what she does,” confesses reader Karen Mix. “I’m glad I got to read them in order as you can see how much Micky grows. Although the subjects can be heavy, drugs, clinic bombings, and child abuse, there is still a lot of (very dry) humor. V.I. Warshawski, for example, would be easier to spend time with if she had a sense of humor.”
Micky’s appeared in several more slam-bang adventures since then, making her one of the longest-running series to follow a lesbian eye, and they’re all liberally laced with offbeat characters and some heavy doses of sex and violence.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
R.M. Redmann is a a gay rights activist and novelist, best known for her long-running and acclaimed series featuring private eye Micky Knight. Three of them, The Intersection of Law and Desire (1995), Death of a Dying Man(2009) and Ill Will (2013), have won Lambda Literary Awards, and several of the others have been short-listed, while Transitory (2023) won the prestigious Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ+ Crime Writing. The series has been translated into Spanish, German, Dutch, Norwegian, and Hebrew, and she’s the co-editor with Greg Herren of three queer-themed anthologies: Night Shadows: Queer Horror, Women of the Mean Streets: Lesbian Noir, and Men of the Mean Streets: Gay Noir. She lives in an historic neighborhood in New Orleans with her partner and several cats.
NOVELS
- Death by the Riverside (1990) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Deaths of Jocasta (1992) |Buy this book | Kindle it!
- The Intersection of Law and Desire (1995) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Lost Daughters (1999) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Death of a Dying Man (2009) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Water Mark (2010) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Ill Will (2012) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- The Shoal of Time (2013) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- The Girl on the Edge of Summer (2017) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Not Dead Enough (2019) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Transitory (2023) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- The Smallest Day (2025) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
- What Were Once Vices…
Notable Gay and Lesbian Eyes - The Lesbian Private Eye
Megan Casey takes a peek at the history of the Sapphic Sleuth.
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith. Thanks to Karen Mix for her help with this one.
