Saz Martin

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Created by Stella Duffy

Back in the 1990s the British government came up with this bright idea of encouraging those on the dole to set up their own businesses. So SAZ MARTIN tells them she’s going to become a private eye.

So now the South London “dyke detective” (her publisher’s description) is ready for action, with or without her best gal Molly by her side. Not that Molly’s some bimbo sidekick — hell, no, she’s a doctor.

And she sticks around throughout the series, and by the fifth book in the series, they have a daughter, Matilda.

Supposedly quite good reads; cheeky, raunchy, witty tales full of sharp one-liners, lyrical undertones and sexual steam with a “film noir edge,” even as the series totters towards some sort of hard-fought but precarious domesticity.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Saz’s creator, Stella Duffy was born in London, grew up in New Zealand, and has lived back in London since 1986. She has written several novels, with The Room of Lost Things and State of Happiness both longlisted for the Orange Prize, and the latter won Stonewall Writer of the Year 2008. She has written over seventy short stories, including several for BBC Radio 4, and won the 2002 CWA Short Story Dagger for Martha Grace.  Her plays include an adaptation of Medea for Steam Industry, Prime Resident and Immaculate Conceit for the National Youth Theatre, and the verbatim piece A Guest on Other People’s Ground for the National Theatre’s Right Angles platform season. In addition to her writing work she is a performer and theatre director.

UNDER OATH

  • ‘A versatile and gifted novelist’
    — Laura Lippman
  • “… flip, sassy, and fashionably underplotted.”
    — Kirkus Reviews on Calendar Girl
  • “Nobody understands the dirty little secrets of the human heart better than Stella Duffy. I defy anyone to read this without squirming.”
    — Val McDermid on Mouths of Babes

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FURTHER INVESTIGATION

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.

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