Mystery Women Authors

Barbara Wilson

Biography

Barbara Jaye Wilson - born 1951. Barbara Wilson grew up in Long Beach, California. She spent many years abroad and then returned to USA, settling in Seattle where she founded the feminist Seal Press in 1976.

Books

Pam Nilson Mysteries

Murder in the Collective

Two print collectives, one left-wing and one radical lesbian, plan to merge. But hidden tensions explode when one of the collective members is found - murdered. Pam is determined to uncover the truth, however disturbing. No one is free of suspicion. The Filipino resistance movement, the CIA, a drunken feminist on a binge, a fugitive in the attic, arms running, blackmail and a pair of unusual contact lenses are all involved before the mystery can be solved. And in the hunt for the killer, everyone is forced to reassess their politics and their love life.

Published The Women's Press 1984

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Sisters of the Road

Pam Nilson, the feminist sleuth of Murder in the Collective, is back again, this time looking for teenager Trish Margolin - and the murderer of Trish's best friend. Her search introduces her to the world of teenage prostitution and runaways on the streets of Seattle and Portland. As the suspense builds up in this excellent psychological thriller we are made aware of the issues of prostitution and violence against women.

Published Virago 1986

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The Dog Collar Murders

Loie Marsh, anti-pornography activist has been brutally strangled.

Published Virago 1989

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Cassandra Reilly Mysteries

The Death of a Much-Travelled Woman: And Other Adventures with Cassandra Reilly

Now translator-sleuth Cassandra Reilly, known to readers for her madcap adventures in Barcelona and Romania, travels to such varied locations as Helsinki, Hawaii, Vladivostok, and the English countryside, in search of new mysteries to investigate
and new crimes to solve.

Published Third Side Pr 1998

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Gaudi Afternoon

Gaudi Afternoon introduces Cassandra Reilly. Won the Lambda Literary Award for best Lesbian Mystery 1991 and won the Crime Writers' Association Award for best mystery set in Europe 1992.

Published Virago 1991

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Trouble in Transylvania

A series of chance encounters on a train to Budapest lead her to Romania, where the legacies of the Ceausescu regime - and legends of vampires - still linger on. At a health spa in Transylvania, Cassandra is joined by a host of intriguing and flamboyant characters including, the Snapp family, with their four year old daughter who plays the violin instead of speaking...

Published Virago 1993

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Brenda Midnight Mysteries

Death Brims Over

Designing hats for a high society wedding, Brenda is horrified when she is held up by a flashy thief who steals the hats and is apparently behind the death of her dress designer friend.

Published Avon Books 1997

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Accessory to Murder

To help a pair of friends remove an awkwardly situated dead body, Brenda borrows a car from talent agent Lemmy Crenshaw to drop the deceased off at the city morgue. When Lemmy is nabbed by the police for murder, Brenda puts designing her spring hat line on hold to devote all her time to unveiling the killer--before Lemmy's career is cut off by a conviction.

Published Avon Books 1998

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Death Flips its Lid

In her colorful, tree-lined neighborhood, Brenda Midnight has set Midnight Millinery, where she creates gravity-defying hat designs. But when Brenda's ex-husband Nado P. Sharpe finds a very dead body on the garage floor where he parked his van, it's all too clear that danger lurks in the lot. So Brenda Midnight, milliner and sleuth extraordinaire, is back in action for the third time to catch a killer.

Published Mass Market Paperbacks 1998

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Non Mystery Books

Ambitious Women

Published 1982

Walking on the Moon

Published The Women's Press 1986

Cows and Horses

Published Virago 1989

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Last updated April 24, 2002