mystery

Book one in a new playful and trope-bending mystery series featuring a queer, nameless amateur detective.
Rescued from torpor and poverty by the need to help a good friend deal with the murder of her beloved granddaughter, our downsized-social-worker protagonist and her cat, Bunnywit, are jolted into a harsh, street-wise world of sex, lies, and betrayal, to which they respond with irony, wit, intelligence (except for the cat), and tenacity. With judicious use of the Oxford comma, pop culture trivia, common mystery tropes, and a keen eye for deceit, our protagonist swaggers through the mean streets of — yes, a Canadian city! — and discovers that what seems at first to be just a grotty little street killing is actually the surface of a grandiose and glittering set of criminal schemes.

Already out from ECW Press as the first of a series, and receiving good press including a starred review in Publishers Weekly, The Adventures of Isabel will be published in the UK in August (Pushkin Press) and the German rights have been acquired by Suhrkamp Verlag. Book two, What's the Matter with Mary Jane, will come out from ECW in October 2021, and the third, He Wasn't There Again Today, in fall 2022.