Books from Spinsters Ink

  • Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home?
    By Karen Thompson, Julie Andrzejewski

    The Phil Donahue Show , on the other hand , almost materialized . I was shocked when they told me that Sharon's parents had consented to appear . A date was set ; then the Kowalskis contacted the program to say that they had decided not ...

  • High Desert
    By Katherine V. Forrest

    She had come to the high desert, she told Officer Barnes, to be with her close friend and former police partner after the death of a dear friend in Los Angeles. Cameron was on leave from LAPD, here for the first time in years in a cabin ...

  • Murder by Tradition
    By Katherine V. Forrest

    And Jensen—when I'm through with that bastard he's gonna think he's a McDonald's hamburger.” Kate grinned. She sat relaxed, drinking coffee, in Linda's office upstairs in the Criminal Courts Building. Foster looked intently at her.

  • Murder at the Nightwood Bar
    By Katherine V. Forrest

    “Look it up in the dictionary, Ed.” The intersection they approached was not unusual—a Carl's Jr. on one corner a Thrifty Drug across from it, a carwash on another corner, a McDonald's just a little further up the block—except for the ...

  • Kick Back
    By Val Mcdermid

    Manchester P.I. Kate Brannigan investigates the disappearance of conservatories, real-estate frauds, and strange "accidents" that threaten her own life.

  • Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence
    By Nancy Manahan, Rosemary Keefer Curb

    The new edition includes a new foreword that looks at the impact the original edition had on both the lesbian and the mainstream cultures.

  • Fat Girl Dances with Rocks
    By Susan Stinson

    It's the summer of drinking and driving, disco and diets, fake IDs and geology, and fat 17-year-old Char is wondering if she is animal, vegetable, or mineral. What does it...

  • They Wrote the Book: Thirteen Women Mystery Writers Tell All
    By Helen Windrath

    Thirteen British and North American women mystery writers describe their professional lives: their struggles to make time to write; strategies for maintaining concentration and focus throughout the creative process; and...

  • Sleeping Bones
    By Katherine V. Forrest

    “Careful,” Kate said facetiously, “Whitby might have planted a bug.” “He probably did. He's still an asshole. ... And that's the secret: knowing you don't have to take it.” Looking into a milk chocolate face made darker by anger, ...

  • Keeping Up Appearances
    By Ann Roberts

    Set against the backdrop of middle-school, Keeping up Appearances is a tense and absorbing story, rich in immediacy and authenticity, about LGBT teachers and their students of today, navigating their way through their classrooms and campus ...

  • Amateur City
    By Katherine V. Forrest

    AMATEUR CITY is the first novel in the compelling Kate Delafield mystery series that has gripped readers all over the world.

  • Booked for Murder: The Fifth Lindsay Gordon Mystery
    By Val Mcdermid

    "In an effort to clear her friend Meredith's name, Lindsay Gordon delves beneath the glittering facade of the high-powered, seemingly glamorous world of London publishing in search of a murderer....

  • Finding Grace: A Novel
    By Mary Saracino

    "From the beginning, it is clear to Peanut that her mother has made a terrible mistake. The idyllic life in "Happy Town" and harmonious family Marie Giovanni had envisioned does...

  • Deadly Embrace
    By Trudy Labovitz

    "Zoe Kergulin, the intrepid West Virginia private investigator introduced in Ordinary Justice is back. When Zoe's cousin, Sheriff McKenna, and his deputy are ambushed, Zoe springs into action. Who would...

  • Closed in Silence
    By Joan M. Drury

    Writer and reluctant sleuth Tyler Jones joins some old friends on an island in Puget Sound, and what begins as a purely nostalgic occasion suddenly turns into murder. A body...

  • A Woman Determined
    By Jean Swallow

    "When Margaret Donovan, the administrator of a Seattle women's health clinic, is hit by a car the day she finds out her partner has been embezzling funds from the clinic,...

  • The Beverly Malibu
    By Katherine V. Forrest

    Surely not three other tenants of the Beverly Malibu, who worked in the motion picture industry during the blacklist years and loathed Sinclair for having been a “friendly witness” before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

  • Those Jordan Girls
    By Joan M. Drury

    "Four generations of women living together in a sprawling house in small-town Minnesota in the mid-twentieth century. Iris Jordan is the formidable, larger-than-life matriarch of the clan. Iris' daughter, Hester,...