Sandra Scoppettone Mystery Women Authors

Mystery Women Authors

Sandra Scoppettone

Biography

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Books

Lauren Laurano Mysteries

Gonna Take a Homicidal Journey (5)

Gonna take a Homicidal Journey Cover Fans of the lesbian detective Lauren Laurano and her lover Kip will be thrilled to learn of the fifth book in Scoppettone's much-loved series. Here are the familiar wisecracks and the hard-edged New York humor, but in a new setting, a Long Island resort town where two of Lauren and Kip's close friends have just moved. Their trip to North Fork is supposed to be a healing, romantic vacation--Lauren has even forsworn e-mail and the Internet in an attempt to rekindle the fire with Kip--but they haven't even ordered their first breakfast at the local diner when a stranger bursts in, announcing that a body has been found hanged in the woods. The dead man's cousin insists it can't be suicide. Over Kip's objections, Lauren plunges into the case, making enemies of almost every town official. Or is almost every town official trying to cover something up? The investigation unfolds against the backdrop of Kip's disappointment in her lover and Lauren's fears that their relationship can never recover the trust and passion it once had. (From Amazon.com)

Published Little Brown and Company July 1998

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Everything You Have is Mine (1)

Everything you have is Mine Cover Gay Greenwich Village private detective Lauren Laurano wins the trust of a rape victim who won't talk to police. But before she can learn all the facts, the woman is murdered, leaving Lauren to explore a past that won't stay buried.

Published Little Brown 1991, Ballantine Books 1993 reprint

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I'll Be Leaving You Always (2)

I'll Be Leaving You Always Cover Investigating the murder of her best friend, Lauren Laurano, a sapphic private investigator, discovers deception and danger lurking among the coffee shops and street corners of her West Greenwich Village neighborhood.

Published Little Brown 1993, Ballantine Books 1994 reprint

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My Sweet Untraceable You (3)

My Sweet Untraceable You Cover When an unlikely character named Boston Blackie hires Lauren Laurano to find out who killed his mother more than thirty-five years ago, Lauren learns that the murdered mom may not be actually dead.

Then again she might. To find out, Lauren goes toe-to-toe with a cast of actor wannabes. Using her uncanny knack for finding the truth, her computer bulletin board, and a little extra help from her friends in the theater world, Lauren plans to bring down the curtain on murder, revenge, and the greedy ghosts of the past.

But someone else hopes she takes a final deadly bow....

Published Little Brown 1994, Del Ray 1995 reprint

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Let's Face the Music and Die (4)

Let's Face the Music and Die Cover All is not well in the life of Greenwich Village lesbian P.I. Lauren Laurano. She and her lover are drifting apart. There's a psychopath watching her every move. Her friend Elissa's rich aunt has just been brutally murdered--and the police suspect that Elissa is the killer.

Lauren knows better. So, using her unique combination of street-savvy detecting and on-line know-how, Lauren sets out to prove Elissa's innocence. But exonerating her friend rapidly turns into a perilous assignment.

Stalking and being stalked, Lauren Laurano is forced to use resources she never knew she had--just to stay alive.

Published Little Brown 1996, Ballantine 1997 reprint

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Mysteries under the pseudonym of Jack Early

A Creative Kind of Killer

A Creative Kind of Killer Cover From the author of My Sweet Untraceable You and Everything You Have Is Mine comes this thriller, originally published under the pseudonym Jack Early. Fortune Fanelli, P.I. and single parent, sets himself to the task of finding a young woman's killer, by following a trail that snakes along the underbelly of artsy Soho, where drug smugglers, runaways and hustlers crowd.

Published Franklin Watts - 1984, Nominated for Edgar - won the Shamus. Reprinted by Carroll & Graf 1995 as Sandra Scoppettone

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Razzamatazz

Raxxamatazz Cover Murder is nothing new to Colin Maguire--he was wrongly accused of fatally stabbing his family in Chicago. The true culprit was never found. Once again in peaceful Seaville, Maguire is accused of committing a series of murders marked by bizarre symbols carved into the corpses. When finally found, the murderer's motive sets the hands of the clock back 25 years.

Published Franklin Watts - 1985, Carroll & Graf 1995 reprint

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Donato & Daughter

Donato & Daughter Cover A serial killer is stalking nuns on the streets of New York. Can he be caught in time to prevent the next murder? In time to prevent the elite task force ranged against him from being taken off the case? Lt. Dina Donato leads seven seasoned officers in the investigation, but for her own partner she chooses the best cop for the job--Sgt. Mike Donato--her estranged father.

Published Dutton - 1988, Carroll & Graf 1995

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Such Nice People

Published Putnam 1980

Innocent Bystanders

Published NAL 1983

Some Unknown Person

Some Unknown Person Cover Starr Faithful was seduced at age 11 by a 45-year-old man, and their relationship lasted nine years. By her 20th year, she is an alcoholic, addicted to pills, and is sexually compulsive. One day she is found dead on the beach. Some claim suicide, others murder, but her death is still unsolved. Here is the chilling story of Starr Faithful's erotic life and mysterious death.