J.M. Redmann

En el plácido Sur nada es tan plácido, ni la vida, ni el amor, ni la justicia. Dos casos, uno relacionado con una niña inocente y otro con una mujer rica, hastiada y convencida de que a ella no se le aplican las normas, llevan a Micky Knight hasta un sordido bar situado en la confluencia de las calles Ley y Deseo, en Nueva Orleans. La confluencia entre Ley y Deseo es la tercera novela policiaca protagonizada por Micky Knight, una intrepida detective que, en esta historia de intriga, se enfrenta a un nuevo y apasionante caso. Una vez mas, los acontecimientos se sucederan de tal forma que ella misma acabara personalmente implicada en la accion. Un perturbador recorrido por los bajos fondos de Nueva Orleans que hace jirones la fama de la menos norteamericana de las ciudades de los Estados Unidos, sacando a la luz esa cara siniestra que los turistas nunca llegan a ver. J.M. Redmann es una escritora magnifica y Micky Knight es un personaje genial. Una lectura que me ha hecho disfrutar enormemente. Sandra Scoppettone La confluencia entre Ley y Deseo es una obra sorprendente, que combina una trama misteriosa y cargada de tension, la triste historia de unas vidas truncadas y una humoristica y provocadora vision de los ambientes lesbicos. Bay Area Reporter Una novela valerosa y estimulante. Rita Mae Brown

Lo que deseamos con más desesperación es aquello de lo que carecemos. Y lo que nunca podremos tener, una infancia resarcida, es quizá lo que deseamos con más desesperación. Una madre quiere encontrar a la hija que su marido echo de casa hace una decada. Un chico gay expulsado por sus padres adoptivos busca a la madre que lo entrego a otras personas al nacer. La detective neorleanesa Micky Knight se hace cargo de estos dos casos, y las cuestiones que le plantean la llevan a asumir un tercero: la busqueda de su propia madre, que les abandono cuando Micky tenia cinco años y a la que nunca ha vuelto ver. Ahora, Micky quiere saber por que. Al principio, el asesinato de una joven parece una muestra aislada de brutalidad urbana. El hallazgo de una segunda victima, que resulta ser paciente de la clinica dirigida por la novia de Micky, demuestra que no era un caso tan aislado. Y cuando Micky aparece inesperadamente en el lugar donde acaba de cometerse un tercer asesinato, queda claro que existe una conexion. El autor de las muertes va estrechando el circulo en torno a los clientes de Micky, a los que ella intenta desesperadamente proteger, tanto de las amargas consecuencias del pasado como de las mortiferas intenciones de un psicopata. La mejor novela negra es aquella que, partiendo de la descripcion de personajes, es capaz de ofrecernos tambien una buena intriga y momentos de realidad creibles. Con esta novela, J.M. Redmann destaca en los tres apartados., Outsmart Las novelas protagonizadas por Micky Knight son cada vez mejores. ...Por la genial descripcion de los personajes, el ritmo implacable y la apasionante intriga, J.M. Redmann se merece llegar al maximo de lectores., Booklist

Es solo una persona más desaparecida en una casa destruida. En Nueva Orleans, unos meses después del huracán Katrina, hay miles de casas destruidas y cientos de personas desaparecidas. ¿Importa una más? Para Micky Knight sí es importante y se embarca en una búsqueda quijotesca para averiguar quién era la mujer y por qué había muerto allí. La investigación de Micky la conduce a un enredo familiar donde la codicia y el engaño se extienden por generaciones. Alguien está usando la destrucción causada por las inundaciones para terminar lo que se inició hace cien años. Micky no solo arriesgará su vida en este caso, también pondrá en peligro cualquier posibilidad de recuperar su relación con Cordelia y reconstruir la vida que tenía antes del Katrina.

Micky Knight, investigadora privada de Nueva Orleans, ha sido contratada para vigilar una selecta fiesta que se celebra en las bucólicas orillas del lago Pontchartrain. Unos invitados de lujo, un hermoso fin de semana de primavera y mujeres portadas partes: parece el trabajo ideal. Sin embargo, la muerte irrumpe en la fiesta al descubrirse el cuerpo de una joven en los bosques de las inmediaciones. Unos dias despues, en la ciudad, aparece otro cadaver en la clinica dirigida por la doctora Cordelia James. La misma Cordelia que unos meses antes habia dejado a Micky con el corazon roto...En esta novela, Micky descubre que el amor y el deseo no siempre siguen trayectorias claramente definidas; aunque desea profundamente a Cordelia, cae en los brazos de otra mujer. Mientras intenta orientarse en este laberinto de emociones, Micky lucha por salvar a Cordelia de la acusacion de homicidio. Pero el autor de los asesinatos va estrechando el circulo, hasta elegira Micky como su proxima victima.

Cuando la mañana del día después de Navidad Will Barnett, un joven de catorce años, se encuentra con su tío Sean, a quien no ha visto desde que teñía seis años, queda inmediatamente cautivado por su belleza y, en ese momento, empieza a enamorarse de el. Will apenas es consciente de que ese amor es peligroso y algo prohibido, pero al intentar comprender lo que significan sus sentimientos se ve abocado a escribir sobre su tio y empieza con estas palabras: Tio Sean es muy hermoso. Aunque hay en el algo raro. Tio Sean es una ficcion que parte de la memoria personal del autor y que nos pasea sin concesiones por el mundo de los sentimientos cautivos del protagonista.

Debería haber sido el caso ideal para Micky Knight: una mujer enigmática le había pedido que localizara a una persona desaparecida. Pero un asunto en apariencia tan sencillo se complicó y se volvió peligroso, obligando a Micky a recorrer una tortuosa ruta desde un local de eroticos del Barrio Frances de Nueva Orleans hasta una rica mansion junto al Mississippi y las aguas de los pantanos de su juventud. Una ruta, que concluyo obligandola a regresar a un pasado que Micky habia tratado de olvidar desesperadamente.

One person dead, another the target. Micky Knight is tasked with protecting Rabbi Sarah Jacobson, from New York, who is hiding in the city she hates, New Orleans. Unsure if Sarah was targeted by one lone killer or a sophisticated hate group, Micky is on edge and uncertain of how to guard her. Or if she can. Sarah is on the verge of a breakdown, from witnessing someone she loved being murdered, to being a stranger in a place she never wanted to see again. Micky reluctantly takes another case from an old high school acquaintance to find her young boytoy who stole important business secrets. The case is messy, likely illegal, and throws Micky into a past she thought she had left behind. Both cases lead her to unexpectedand dangerousplaces.

Its just one more body in one more destroyed house. In New Orleans, after Katrina, there are thousands of destroyed houses and hundreds of body yet to be found. Can one more matter? It does to Micky Knight as she takes on the search to find out who the woman was and why she might have died there. But is Micky searching for justice or just doing anything to avoid confronting the ways Katrina destroyed everything that had tied her to New Orleans?Mickys investigation leads to a tangle of greed and deceit that stretches back generations. Someone is using the destruction wrought by the flooding to finish what was started a hundred years ago. To stop them Micky will have to risk not just her life, but any chance to reconnect with Cordelia and rebuild the life she had before Katrina. But if she doesnt stop them, a young teen whose only crime was wanting to help the destroyed city, will be the next body left in an abandoned house.The sixth book in the Micky Knight mystery series.

The cops blow it off, another Black transgender woman who surprised a customer with what was under the dressbad luck she was pushed out of the car and then hit by another vehicle. But Micky Knight witnessed it, crossing the street at the rightor wrongtime, only yards away from what didnt look at all like an accident to her. The woman was dressed more like a librarian than a sex worker. Its not her case, she was just walking home from a local bar. No ID was found on the victim, and the only clue is an appointment card with cryptic initials, CJ at CC. Micky has a good idea what they meanCordelia James at CrescentCare, a local health clinic that sees many transgender clients. Cordelia, a doctor and her ex. Micky doesnt want to get involved, but there will be no justice if she doesnt. As she investigates, she uncovers a family in turmoil and ugly secretsones people will kill for.

Among the moss-covered trees and wrought-iron balustrades of southern Louisiana, Detective Michele Knight (Micky to her friends) takes on the seemingly simple job of shooting a few photos for a client, but the going gets rough as Micky finds herself slugging through thugs and slogging through swamps in an attempt to expose a dangerous drug ring. The trail leads to the Hundred Oaks Plantation, a transvestite named Eddie, a beautiful doctor named Cordelia, and memories Micky thought she had buried twenty years ago.Hard-hitting prose in the style of Sam Spade and Mike Hammer with a lesbian twist.The First Micky Knight Mystery

New Orleans PI Micky Knight just had to get into a butch pissing contest with the journalist partner of a famous doctor working with her lover, Cordelia James. Mickys insistence that the skills of a reporter are of no use to a PI backfires, and now shes stuck with a drop-dead gorgeous assistant and the case of a dying gay man looking for a child he might have fathered. These chains of eventsand an act of naturewill tear Mickys life apart in ways that may never be put back together. Fifth in the Lambda Award-winning Micky Knight mystery series.

It is fall in the steamy underworld of New Orleans, the seasons are changing, and so is tough detective Micky Knights life. Micky takes on the case of the daughter of a friend, who is believed to be sexually abused, not knowing that the investigation will lead her on a dangerous sexual odyssey. In Cissys sleepless nights, Micky sees echoes of her own past, and she becomes caught up in a world where young girls are treated as commodities. While doing battle with seedy thugs and struggling to hold on to her rocky relationship with Dr. Cordelia James, Micky travels between the uptown opulence of the Sans Parel Club, one of New Orleanss exclusive private clubs, and a tawdry hole of a bar near the Desire Projects. Evil exists in both places, and the mystery culminates where law and desire intersect. ReprintThe Lambda Literary Award winning Third Micky Knight Mystery.

First, do no harm. But as New Orleans PI Micky Knight discovers, not every health care provider follows that dictum. She stumbles into a tangle of the true believers to the criminally callous, who use the suffering of others for their twisted ends. In a city slowly rebuilding after Katrina, one of the most devastated areas is health care, and the gaps in service are wide enough for the snake oil salesmenand the snakes themselvesto crawl through.The seventh Micky Knight mystery.

Women. Crime. Justice. At least the search for it. On the mean streets, the back allies, the dark corners.These are stories of tough women in hard places. The nights are long, the women are fast, and danger is always a short block or quick minute away. Edited by award winning author/editors J.M. Redmann and Greg Herren, Women of the Mean Streets is an anthology of some of the top, tough women crime writers today, noir stories with a lesbian twist.

Micky Knight, a hard-hitting, tough-talking dyke detective, has been hired to provide security for a party at an old country mansion. It should be easya perfect spring evening, mild weather, and women everywhere. Suddenly another woman shows upbrutally murdered, left to die in the surrounding woods. The police find a prime suspect when the body of yet another victim is found in the clinic of Dr. Cordelia James, a woman whom Micky has a very personal reason to defend. Micky struggles against demons, past and present, in her death-defying search for the murderer. (reprint)

Micky Knight, a bayou-bred and out-of-the-closet New Orleans private investigator, takes on the cases of a widowed mother looking for her daughter and a tough gay boy hunting for his biological mother. When a young woman patient is murdered at Dr. Cordelia Jamess clinic, it seems to be just a bizarre coincidence. But when another woman, also a patient, is murdered, these events reveal the frightening possibility that the crimes are more than just random chances. Even more alarming, the killer seems to know too much about the victims. As the killer circles ever closer to Mickyand the lost daughter she is trying to findthe coincidences become a grisly reality: the one characteristic all the victims share is that they dare to love other women.

Michele "Micky" Knight, a New Orleans PI, meets an out-of-town team of investigators who are working a human trafficking case. They want someone local to show them around. It sounds easy, and a woman with smiling green eyes is asking. But it stays easy only if Micky stops asking questionsand shes never been good at that. What starts out as a tourist tour of the underside of New Orleans turns into a risky game of cat and mouse, and twists even further as Micky is caught between the good guys and the bad guys, each willing to do whatever it takesincluding getting rid of an inconvenient PIto achieve their ends. Who can she trust? And whos trying to kill her?The eighth Micky Knight mystery.

A woman wants to find her missing sister. That should be easy for an experienced PI like Micky Knight. Until the womanor someone who looks like herends up in the morgue. Micky finds herself in a tangled mess, not knowing who the real victim is, or how her name keeps coming up in places it shouldnt. Like newly minted Realtor Karen Holloways house sale papers, as the contact for another missing buyer, one who looks a lot like Mickys client. The same woman? The sister?Micky has to uncover what the game is and whos playing. Because the stakes are murder.

Micky Knight reluctantly takes on two cases, one for money, one for pity. The first is a trawl though archives to solve a century old murder for an arrogant grandson who thinks riches should absolve his family of any sins. The other, to answer a mothers anguish as she tries to understand her daughters suicide. Micky sees no happy ending to either case; the dusty pages of history arent going to give up their secrets after holding them for so long. And even if she finds answers for the mothers questions, nothing will bring her daughter back. But as Micky discovers, the past is never past and a young girl can lead a complicated, even dangerous, life. The secrets, both past and present, are meant to remain hiddenonly the first murder is hard. The rest come easy.A Micky Knight Mystery