TOP 5 LESBIAN BOOKS (FICTION) – February 2014
HOMESTEAD by Radclyffe
Tess Rogers grew up in the midst of chaos and uncertainty, but she always knew one thing to be true – one day six hundred acres of prime farmland would be hers. Then she discovers not even that truth can be counted on. Tess’s stepfather has kept important secrets, and Tess’s dream of breeding a line of organic dairy cows suddenly goes up in a burst of smoke and flame.
HIGH DESERT by Katherine V. Forrest
In this latest mystery, Kate is forced to confront her most formidable opponent: herself.
Five months into mandated retirement from LAPD, her long term on-again off-again relationship with Aimee Grant off again, hopelessly dependent on the only substance that can drown her pain over Aimee and the illness of her best friend, lost without her police career, beset by terrifying dreams, Kate Delafield is in a world of trouble.
WEEPING WALLS by Gerri Hill
An abandoned old house in a small town northeast of Houston is the site of a second murder, eerily similar to a supposed cold case of fourteen years earlier. FBI Agents CJ Johnston and Paige Riley are dispatched to find the link between the two homicides.
The team, including Ice and Billy, find the case to be anything but cold. For CJ and Paige, juggling the investigation while trying to keep their love affair a secret proves to be as hard as uncovering long-buried clues. Seven-time Goldie winner Gerri Hill delivers thrills and passion in the chilling sequel to Keepers of the Cave.
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR (Graphic Novel) by Julie Maroh
“Love may not be eternal but love makes us eternal”.
This is the original graphic novel adapted into the filmBlue Is the Warmest Color, winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and which generated wide praise as well as controversy for its explicit lesbian sex scenes. Originally published in French as Le bleu est une couleur chaude, it is an intensely lyrical and poetic graphic novel about the quest for eternal love.
THE SHOAL OF TIME by J.M. Redmann
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 questions — and she’s never been good at that.
