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Murder in the Castro
Elaine Beale

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Murder in the Castro

A Lou Spencer Mystery

New Victoria Publishers (Oct 31, 1997)
9780934678872
| Paperback
204 pages | 5.2 x 8.3 inch | English
$ 10.95
Dewey 813.54
LC Classification PS3552.E1366 .M87 1997
LC Control No. 97014674

Genre

  • Mystery

Subject

  • Castro (San Francisco, Calif.)
  • Fiction / Lesbian
  • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
  • Gay Communities
  • Gay Community
  • Gay Community/ Fiction
  • Lesbians - Fiction

Plot

Introducing Lou Spencer, an ex-Brit with a past she wants to forget, now making a new life in the Castro district. As the manager of an agency which advocates for victims of gay bashing, she knows that threats are to be expected. But when she finds one of the project's counselors stabbed to death in his office, and her co-worker is arrested for the murder, her activism becomes more personal. As the Castro community reacts in outrage, Lou is left trying to hold the besieged agency together while looking for evidence to counter the homophobic assumptions of the San Francisco Police Department. Falling in love with beautiful lesbian cop Alex Ramon adds to the complications.