Mystery Women Authors
Kate Calloway
Biography
Kate Calloway was born in 1957. She has published several novels with Naiad Press including 1st impressions, 2nd Fiddle, 3rd Degree, and 4th Down, all in the Cassidy James Mystery Series. 5th Wheel, 6th Sense and 7th Heaven will soon follow.
Kate's short stories appear in Lady Be Good and Dancing in the Dark. Her hobbies include cooking, wine-tasting, boating, song-writing and spending time with her lover and two cats. She currently splits her time between Southern California and the Pacific Northwest; setting for the Cassidy James novels. Those who know Kate well say that Cassidy James is not entirely fictional.
Books
Cassidy James Mysteries
5th Wheel
Private Investigator
Cassidy James is deep undercover in a college drama department, and the curtain
is about to go up - on a dress rehearsal for murder!!
A sadistic serial killer is abducting young women and leaving their mutilated bodies along Oregon's coastal highway. Kings Harbor policewoman Martha Harper believes the clues lead to a local college, but her superiors don't see it that way. Desperate for help, she turns to her best friend, Cassidy James.
Posing as a teaching assistant in the Theatre Department, the undercover investigator soon finds herself surrounded by a cast of intriguing characters, including the alluring Professor Lauren Monroe - whose talents, Cassidy will soon discover, are not limited to the classroom. But the more she learns about Lauren and the people around her, the more Cassidy suspects she's not the only one playing a role.
Published Naiad Press 1998
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1st Impressions
The
problem with dumping a body in Rainbow Lake is that it rises almost immediately
to the top, even when weighted down with rope and cement...
After the mutilated corpse of a wealthy summer resident is found in the quiet, lakeside town of Cedar Hills, Oregon, the man's beautiful niece, Erica Trinidad, hires rookie private investigator Cassidy James to track down her uncle's killer. Cassidy uncovers a bizarre series of crimes she believes is tied to the murder, leading her to the horrifying conclusion that the killing has just begun. But the town's sexist police sergeant could care less what an uppity female gumshoe thinks. And besides, the authorities almost have enough evidence to book their number one suspect - Erica Trinidad.
Cassidy's investigation is further complicated by the growing sexual tension between herself and Erica - until she learns the shocking secret of Erica's not-too-distant past...Rookie PI Cassidy James is hired to find a murdered man's killer in a quiet Oregon lakeside resort -- but the town's sexist police sergeant doesn't care to have an uppity lesbian gumshoe on the case. He's keen to arrest the victim's beautiful niece, who has Cassidy head over heels in love -- and in danger. (From the cover)
Published Naiad Press 1996
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2nd Fiddle
The letter was
brief and to the point: "If we wanted live with faggots we'd move to San
Francisco. Get out of town. Now."
At their wits end, two gay men hire private investigator Cassidy James to find out who is blackmailing them to leave their home on Cedar Ridge. Cassidy's original theory that this is the cowardly act of a homophobic nutcase is quickly negated when she learns that other residents of the Ridge have been getting threatening letters. Letters from someone who knows the most intimate details of their lives. Someone who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
Cassidy throws herself into the investigation, hoping against hope that it will help her forget the horror of her very first case ... and the woman who broke her heart. Now a target herself, Cassidy doesn't realize how close she could be to getting her wish. After all, dead women have nothing to forget ... (From the cover)
Published Naiad Press 1997
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3rd Degree
HAS AN INTRUDER
VIOLATED YOUR HOME? If someone has invaded your home and terrorized you, please
call Cassidy James at 555-9113. No names necessary. Complete confidentiality
assured. Don't let this terrible crime happen to someone else! Together we can
stop him!!
Private Investigator Cassidy James suspected that the women of Cedar Hills were being systematically terrorized, but until she posted these flyers, no one knew to what extent. Now the truth is out, but with none of the victims willing to help her, how will she be able to stop this fiend - before he stops her?
As if her life weren't complicated enough, Cassidy's devastatingly beautiful and notoriously unfaithful ex, Erica Trinidad, has decided that the quickest way to the investigator's heart is through her bed. How can Cassidy convince her new girlfriend that she no longer wants Erica - when she can't quite convince herself? (From the cover)
Published Naiad Press 1997
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4th Down
Under different
circumstances, a week at a rustic lesbian retreat would undoubtedly bring much-needed
rest and tranquillity. But unless she can track down a ruthless killer, Cassidy
James may be headed for another sort of peace and quiet - the kind that comes
with headstones!!!
Someone is trying to kill Dr. Allison Crane, head physician at a Portland women's clinic and president of Women On Top, the influential lesbian organization to which she has willed her substantial estate. Reviewing the evidence, Private Investigator Cassidy James quickly deduces that the culprit is someone close to Allison - someone who knows the intimate details of her daily Iife.
Posing as Allison's new girlfriend, Cassidy accompanies her to a Women on Top retreat deep in the Oregon wilderness, hoping to lure the would-be murderer into the open. With danger lurking just outside their cabin, the undercover detective discovers that the alluring Allison wants her under-the-sheets as well - and the feeling is overwhelmingly mutual... (From the cover)
Published Naiad Press 1997
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Coming Soon
6th Sense
Published Naiad Press 1999
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7th Heaven
Published Naiad Press 1999
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