The Adventures of Isabel

Unique crimes call for unique detectives. When a friend's granddaughter is murdered, our ambisexual downsized-social-worker and her cat are enlisted to help solve the case. (though the cat mainly sulks) With humour and a good dose of irony, our protagonist swaggers through the streets tracking down leads to get the bad guy. A refreshing feminist take on a comic mystery.

Unique crimes call for unique detectivesWhen a good friend's beloved granddaughter is murdered, our ambisexual downsized-social-worker and her cat, Bunnywit, are enlisted to help solve the case. For the police, Madeline is just one more dead sex worker - so it is down to our hero and her friends to uncover what happened to her (though not the cat. The cat mainly sulks.)With humour, sarcasm and a good dose of irony, our protagonist swaggers through the mean streets of a Canadian city tracking down leads to get the bad guy. Aided by a love of mystery fiction the gang dives deep into the underbelly of city life. What at first seems an average street killing is actually the surface of a grandiose and glittering set of criminal schemes...

Autorentext

Candas Jane Dorsey is the award-winning author of science fiction novels Black Wine, A Paradigm of Earth, Machine Sex and Other Stories, Vanilla and Other Stories, and Ice and Other Stories. This is her first mystery series. She is a writer, editor, former
publisher, community advocate, and activist living in Edmonton, Alberta.

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Unique crimes call for unique detectives...