KV Forrest - Sleeping Bones

Katherine V. Forrest

Sleeping Bones: A Kate Delafield Mystery

Katherine V. Forrest

Publisher: Berkley Hardcover; 1st ed edition (September 1, 19

ISBN-13: 978-0425170298

PSRP: $14.00

L.A.P.D. Detective Kate Delafield returns--with an iron-willed female lieutenant as her new boss--in a murder investigation as sticky as the La Brea Tar Pits, which happens to be the scene of the crime. Kate is quickly drawn into a mystery which could uncover the truth of humanity's ancient past, or expose the corruption of the present. And everyone involved--from an alluring scientist with a dark secret to a treacherous CIA officer with his own agenda--is suspect. Author Katherine V. Forrest is in top form in this timeless puzzle of a mystery.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Los Angeles homicide detective Kate Delafield's latest adventure takes her to the famous La Brea tar pits, where she breaks in new partner Joe on a bizarre case of murder. An excellent novel by a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Mystery.

From Kirkus Reviews

Forty thousand years after the La Brea Tar Pits claim the victims they immortalize as fossils, and 60 years after the discovery of Peking Man, something that looks uncannily like a mandible from the Chinese discovery, which vanished in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, turns up at the Tar Pits the very same day as the body of Herman Layton, one of the ex-Marines charged with removing the fossil from China way back when. The very next day, Layton's daughter Peri, a paleoanthropological prodigy whose recent career has sputtered, announces major funding for her newest African dig. Coincidence? LAPD Homicide Detective Kate Delafield and her new partner Joe Cameron don't think so. Neither does the CIA, which has latched onto the case as tightly as the Japanese on occupied China. Even as she's following the dead-end leads that would tell her whether the jawbone is the genuine article or a clever copyand trying to deal with her sudden dangerous attraction to Peri Layton, and wondering how to neutralize her friend Marcie Grissom's abusive ex, and coming to terms with the long-lost brother who's erupted without warning into her lifeKate is struggling to balance her loyalty to the Job with the peremptory demands of CIA case officer Nicholas Whitby, whose ideas of national security makes him a modern mastodon ripe for tarring. So many moral dilemmas crowd Kate's seventh (Apparition Alley, 1997, etc.), in fact, that murder and detection play distinctly supporting roles.

No bones about it. "L.A. policewoman Kate Delafield has been the most acclaimed of the lesbian detectives."

--Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

"Ms. Forrest's Los Angeles homicide detective Kate Delafield makes a strong impression...[she] plies her trade with admirable efficiency and more hard-to-come-by integrity."--New York Times Book Review

"A pioneer in lesbian literature."

--Lambda Book Report