Mystery Women Authors

Nikki Baker

Biography

Nikki Baker was born in 1962. She has created Virginia Kelley - a likeable, wisecracking, African American stockbroker working for a midwest firm.

Books

Virginia Kelly Mysteries

In the Game

Ginny and Bev. Always there for each other - friends since business school, where their black faces were lost in a sea of white. As Ginny observes, "Lovers don't last, but friends can be forever."

Now Bev is in trouble. Her lover's bullet-riddled body has been found behind a Chicago lesbian bar. The police suspect a hate crime, but Ginny, privy to her own information about the murdered Kelsey, thinks otherwise.

Threading her nimble way through the cultural byways and politics of the lesbian society she knows, Ginny asks a lot of questions about Kelsey's death, but finds few answers. Just who is the mysterious "other woman" in Kelsey's life? And is it true that Kelsey was about to be arrested for embezzlement?

Meanwhile, Ginny has acquired a thorny problem of her own. A brief fling with a high-powered lawyer has turned into obsession, and threatens Ginny's long-term relationship. A suicide, another murder - and Ginny begins to suspect that she is being cast as the next victim... (From Naiad Press)

Published Naiad Press 1991

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The Lavendar House Murder

By night - the bars, the music, the sexual energy. By day - the beaches, the bay... basking in the sun and the scent of suntan lotion. And everywhere the women of Provincetown.

Among these women in the sun is Afro-American Virginia Kelly, on vacation apart from lover Emily. Ginny has come to P-town with friend Naomi. They stay at Lavender House, a hotel for lesbians run by Sam, a woman with whom Naomi has had some dramatic history.

Other inhabitants include a "helper" named Anya. A writer and sometime guest named Joan. Loud Barb and her quiet partner. And in P-town itself, a "car girl" Ginny is very much drawn to. Then murder shatters the vacation bliss. For among the people brushing up against Ginny and Naomi for these few sensual days is a ruthless killer. And a victim whose death will change the lives of Ginny and Naomi. (From Naiad Press)

Published Naiad Press 1992

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Long Goodbyes

A small Midwest town at Christmas time. A high school reunion. Home for the holidays, nothing seems to have changed to Virginia Kelly . . . until Rosalee, her first love, exhibits new interest in Virginia, and a teacher loses his wife in a mysterious drowning . . .

Published Naiad Press 1993

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The Ultimate Exit Strategy

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Published Naiad Press 1996

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Non Mystery Books

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