A Virginia Kelly Mystery, Book 1
LOS ANGELES—January 14, 2020—ReQueered Tales, successfully launched in 2019, is restoring award-winning gay and lesbian fiction to print with a focus on mystery, sci-fi and literary genres. Since May 2019, we’ve reintroduced eleven authors to old friends and a new generation of readers.
Virginia Kelly is black – the first African-American sleuth in lesbian fiction. Nikki Baker is the first African-American author of lesbian mysteries. After 20 years out of print … welcome back!
“An entertaining assortment of female characters makes Baker’s debut promising”
— Publisher’s Weekly
When businesswoman Virginia Kelly meets her old college chum Bev Johnson for drinks late one night, Bev confides that her lover, Kelsey, is seeing another woman. Ginny had picked up that gossip months ago, but she is shocked when the next morning’s papers report that Kelsey was found murdered behind the very bar where Ginny and Bev had met. Worried that her friend could be implicated, Ginny decides to track down Kelsey’s killer and contacts a lawyer, Susan Coogan. Susan takes an immediate, intense liking to Ginny, complicating Ginny’s relationship with her live-in lover. Meanwhile Ginny’s inquiries heat up when she learns the Feds suspected Kelsey of embezzling from her employer.
Interwoven into the narrative are observations on the intersectionality of being a woman, an African-American, and a lesbian in a “man’s” world of finance and life in general.
“The auspicious debut of a black writer who brings us a sharp, funny and on-the-mark murder mystery.”
— Northwest Gay & Lesbian Reader
First published to acclaim in 1991, this new edition features a 2020 foreword by the author.
IN THE GAME, a Virginia Kelly Mystery, by Nikki Baker
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NEW! Available August 18 2020
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184 pgs • ISBN 978-1-951092-28-3
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