![]() ![]() Again. Alcohol has become her best friend. Her longtime partner, Aimee, has left her. Kate is now forcibly retired and she has issues. ![]() That case–Tamara Carter’s murder–has haunted Joe and by extension, Kate.Ĭaptain Walcott needs to find Joe, who’s disappeared while on a leave of absence, and fast. There is, however, the ghost of an old case, one of those cases that breaks a detective. She needs Kate’s help finding Kate’s former partner, Joe Cameron. Visiting a subordinate for a very specific reason: The smooth, tough, driven, no-nonsense African-American Walcott is The detective is re-arranging herself in her own living room as she awaits a visit from her former lieutenant, now a captain, Carolina Walcott. ![]() High Desert, the ninth in Forrest’s Delafield series, opens anomalously, sans crime. Not with a bang, nor with a whimper, but with a full-throated cry of foul at the various hands she’s been dealt since we saw her last. With nearly a decade since Forrest’s last foray into the seamy world of the LAPD, it may have seemed as if we wouldn’t see Delafield again.īut–she’s back. Katherine Forrest is one of our iconic lesbian mystery novelists and Kate Delafield was our first out lesbian detective. ![]() It’s been years since I’ve seen her (eight, to be exact), but when I ran into her again in Katherine Forrest’s new novel, High Desert, I was very glad to see her. Some old friends you only see occasionally, but when you do, you realize how much you have missed them. ![]()
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