Mystery Women Authors

Jaye Maiman

Biography

Jaye Maiman grew up in a Coney Island housing project where she spent Tuesday nights consuming blueberry chees knishes and watching fireworks from a beachside boardwalk.  She resides in Brooklyn with her two cats and her partner, Rhea.  (From the cover of her books).

Photo by Feyre Sebonio

Books

Robin MIller Mysteries

I Left My Heart (1)

Travel writer and romance novelist Robin Miller is estranged from her lover, investigative writer Mary Oswell. Suddenly, shockingly, Mary is dead. Accidental death - maybe even suicide - from allergic shock, says case Detective Thomas Ryan. Impossible, insists Robin.

Robin's own investigation uncovers one mystery after another. A lethal medication prescribed for an imposter. A secret assignment that Mary was working on. A sleazy politico acting as Mary's attorney. A "pavement princess" named Selma. And Mary's
surprising liaisons with other women in her life apart from Robin.

As she follows a trail of painful memory into the gay community of San Francisco and down the coast to Mary's house on the cliffs of beautiful Big Sur, Robin finds distraction from her grief in the alluring and enigmatic Cathy. But Cathy has a secret of her own...

And as Robin draws ever closer to determining the real truth to Mary's final days, her own life becomes increasingly at risk...

Published Naiad Press 1991

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Crazy for Loving (2)

Life and love in the 1990s is a game of Russian Roulette. Just ask Robin. Back in New York City, still trying to deal with ghosts from the past, she is slowly, oh so slowly, being groomed to take over a detective agency.

Then, the formidable Marion Ross announces that husband David is acting very suspiciously. The next day, in his classroom, David Ross is acting very dead. When the cops seem quite willing to pin his murder on a troubled twelve-year old, Robin knows she finally has herself a case.

Christine O'Donnell presents an altogether different assignment: find the man who gave her a weekend in Atlantic City beyond all her dreams, and nightmares ever since. And along the way Robin meets Terry, and the devastating KT - "with hair the color of
autumn and eyes that flashed leaf-green when she smiled." Suddenly Robin's hands are very full indeed ...

Published Naiad Press 1992

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Under My Skin (3)

From Jaye Maiman - the Lambda Literary Award winner for Crazy For Loving - the third entry in her dynamic, highly acclaimed, highly charged mystery series.

Private detective Robin Miller has retreated to a cabin in the Poconos; to escape the pressures of her work and the recurring, increasingly graphic memories of a childhood trauma. A fight between Noreen and ex-lover Helen signals the first interruption to
Robin's refuge in peaceful Telham Village. The next event is a suspicious death...

Robin, dragged into an ever-widening homicide investigation, finds further complication when K.T. Bellflower returns to her life. K.T., passionate and exciting - a woman who awakens in Robin dreams of a love she long ago renounced. Robin's homicide investigation leads her down dark trails of suspicion in this once peaceful community. One of those trails leads to her closest friend...

Suddenly, everything is at risk. Robin is plunged into battle with her own innermost demons. And she must put her heart and her very life on the line...

Published Naiad Press 1993

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Someone to Watch (4)

The fourth entry in this extraordinary series finds Robin Miller hot on the trail of a sultry singer who doubles as a con artist. But she is sidetracked by a plea from her lover, K.T. Bellflower. To help K.T's friend, the prime suspect in the murder of her boyfriend.

But Robin is blindsided by the disappearance of both the friend and K.T. Her relationship - and her life - in deepest jeopardy, Robin is plunged into an investigation that uncovers a disturbing secret about the murdered man, and a startling connection between a right-wing politician and a gay activist...

Published Naiad Press 1995

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Baby It's Cold (5)

As a bitter winter grips New York City, Private Investigator Robin Miller is catapulted on a bone-chilling quest to save a friend's child from a horrifying death. With a vicious kidnapper on the loose and one child already presumed dead, Robin has no time to waste. The investigation rushes ahead at breakneck speed, propelling her on a collision course with a cold-hearted killer... and a former lover.

Published Naiad Press 1997

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Old Black Magic (6)

From the murky bayous of New Orleans to the rat-infested subways of New York City, P.I Robin Miller is trapped in a heart pounding race against time... and evil. A brilliant and brutal serial killer is on the loose and, with a new love unfolding, Robin has her own
urgent reason to find the murderer - before he finds her!!!

Published Naiad Press 1997

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