Murder in the Castro: A Lou Spencer Mystery - Softcover

Beale, Elaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0934678871 ISBN 13: 9780934678872

Publisher: New Victoria Pub, 1997

Synopsis

Stop the Violence! is the ringing refrain after a counselor for a gay advocacy agency is found stabbed to death in his office.
The victim's co-worker is arrested and the Castro community reacts in outrage. Lou Spencer struggles to hold the besieged agency together, while looking for evidence to clear her friend and counter the homophobic assumptions of the San Francisco Police Department.
Then lesbian cop, Alex Ramon, arrives on the scene and Lou finds herself "sleeping with the enemy."

About this title

From Library Journal:

First novelist Beale introduces amateur sleuth Lou Spencer, a red-headed British transplant who works as office manager for a nonprofit antihate organization in San Francisco. Lou begins her sleuthing career when police accuse her best friend, a gay co-worker, of murdering his ex-lover?also a co-worker. Lou must battle phone harassment, police bigotry, political tensions, and her growing attraction to a Latina cop to expose the real culprit. Solid work, decent plot, and an engaging protagonist recommend this for most collections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Victoria Pub
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0934678871
• ISBN 13: 9780934678872
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204