Created by Pat Dobie (1963--) A tough, cynical lesbian private eye, down on her luck, CHRIS PRIOR lives over a Vancouver escort agency, in love with its owner. And then she gets roped into looking into a murder that somehow connects the murder of one of the agency's young escorts and a chess-playing professor, and … Continue reading Chris Prior
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Kat Guerrera
Created by M.F. Beal "To be a woman is to be a revolutionary" — Kat Talk about firsts. The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing tagged M.F. Beal's ground-breaking 1977 novel, Angel Dance as the first "self consciously feminist mystery," while it's generally considered to be the first PI novel to feature a lesbian as the … Continue reading Kat Guerrera
Micky Knight
Created by J.M. Redmann Pseudonym of Jean Redmann Other pseudonyms include R. Jean Reid (1955--) One of the toughest (and most popular) female eyes of the nineties was J.M. Redmann's MICHELE "MICKY" KNIGHT, a gay New Orleans private eye. Micky has taken more than one on the chin over this long-running series, and she's not … Continue reading Micky Knight
Lauren Laurano
Created by Sandra Scoppettone Surrounded by other gay couples and friends, Big Apple eye LAUREN LAURANO, formerly of the CIA, and her main squeeze, Kip, a psychotherapist, live together in Greenwich Village. This has just gotta be the first well-adjusted lesbian couples in detective fiction published by a mainstream press, as opposed to one of … Continue reading Lauren Laurano
Mel Tillman
Created by Tess Sharpe Down in the boondocks , trailer trash teen turned twenty-something private eye MELANIE "MEL" TILLMAN goes about her business, plying her trade, and keeping her past where it belongs — in the past. Until it's all dragged back into the light by her boss, Nat Parker, the P.I. who taught her … Continue reading Mel Tillman
Aud Torvingen
Created by Nicola Griffith "An owl screamed in the wood and I wanted to ride behind its eyes when it plunged its talons into living flesh, wanted to tear something warm and soft to pieces while it squealed." AUD TORVINGEN is Nicola Griffith's hard-as-nails and Norwegian-to-the-core lesbian bodyguard/P.I./shit magnet, first introduced in the widely-acclaimed The … Continue reading Aud Torvingen
Harriet Morrow
Created by Rob Osler Is it just me? Or does there seem to be a surprising number of books and other media in the first few decades of the 21st century inspired by Kate Warne, the Pinkerton Detective Agency's first female operative? Some are endless retellings of the same facts, others offer fictionalized and romanticized … Continue reading Harriet Morrow
Nikki Beaumont & Nora Delaney (Nikki & Nora: The N&N Files)
Created by Nancylee Myatt “Here come the girls!” — the official theme song (seriously) Once upon a time, there was a 2004 made-for-television movie, Nikki and Nora, about two female partners (and lovers) in the Special Crimes Unit of the New Orleans police department. Apparently, it was intended as a pilot for UPN, but it was never … Continue reading Nikki Beaumont & Nora Delaney (Nikki & Nora: The N&N Files)
Charlie Mack
Created by Cheryl A. Head CHARLENE "CHARLIE" MACK is a Black private eye from Detroit, and Boy! Is she ever! She's covers that beleaguered city better than anyone this side of Loren Estleman's Amos Walker. And just in case it slips your mind, the series is billed as "The Charlie Mack Motown Mysteries." So don't … Continue reading Charlie Mack
What Were Once Vices…
Notable Gay and Lesbian Eyes Sam Spade seemed to take some genuine pleasure in belittling and slapping around both Wilmer (that gunsel!) and Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon, but homosexuals (and transsexuals) have already been treated more or less the same way in the genre for decades--and would continue to be so for decades … Continue reading What Were Once Vices…