Mystery Women Authors
Stella Duffy
Biography
Stella Duffy was born in the UK and grew up in New Zealand. She now lives in London where she teaches improvised comedy and writes and performs for theatre and radio. She has published four short stories and is the author of a play, The Hand, for Gay Sweatshop, a one woman show, The Tedious Predictability of Falling in Love, and three novels.
Books
Saz Martin Mysteries
Calendar Girl
Stand-up comic Maggie
has fallen for 'the girl with the Kelly McGillis body', a mysterious woman who
can't commit herself. Meanwhile South London detective Saz is hot on the trail
of a woman known only as 'September', who commutes between London and New York
in a whirlwind of drug smuggling, gambling and high-class prostitution. A murder
brings Saz and Maggie and their respective mysteries together. Smart and sexy,
Calendar Girl is a lesbian thriller high on attitude and erotic content.
Published Mask Noir 1994
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Wavewalker
Saz Martin, detective
hero of Calendar Girl returns - with a lover of her own - to investigate
the activities of Dr Maxwell North, an internationally acclaimed therapist,
healer and "guru". She has been hired by a mystery employer, the Wavewalker,
who walks at the edge of the tides where the waves wash over footprints, and
you can't tell if you're being followed or led....
The investigation starts in 70s San Francisco and crashes into her own 90s London life, as the secrets of Dr North's healing 'Process' and a surplus of suicides combine to propel Saz into dangerous territory and a highly combustible conclusion. With all the excitement, wit and flair of Calendar Girl, Wavewalker confirms Stella Duffy's place at the cutting edge of crime fiction.
Published Mask Noir 1996
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Beneath the Blonde
Siobhan
Forrester, lead singer of Beneath the Blonde. has everything a girl could want
- stunning body, great voice. brilliant career. loving boyfriend. Now she has
a stalker too. She can cope with the midnight flower deliveries and nasty phone
calls, but things really turn sour when intimidation turns to murder. Saz Martin,
hired to seek out the stalker and protect Siobhan, embarks on a whirlwind investigation,
travelling with the band from London to New Zealand via the rest of the world.
As jobs go. this one shouldn't be too hard, except Siobhan isn't telling the
whole truth and Saz isn't sure she wants to keep the relationship strictly business.
Beneath the Blonde is the third Saz Martin thriller, following the
highly acclaimed Calendar Girl and Wavewalker, and confirming
Stella Duffy's position at the forefront of the new wave of British crime fiction.
Published Serpents Tail 1997
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Non Mystery Books
The Tedious Predictability of Falling in Love (A Play)
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