All 10 A Kate Delafield Mystery Books In Order at Book DNA

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Amateur City

Tough and demanding LAPD Detective Kate Delafield is the leader of the investigation into a highrise office building murder. The case is intriguing but routine―until Kate interviews the only witness, Ellen O’Neil.

When Ellen O’Neil took her new job over the objections of her lover, she wasn’t expecting to become…

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2
Murder at the Nightwood Bar

Book cover of Murder at the Nightwood Bar

Dory Quillin, nineteen-years old, her white-blonde hair ruffled by the gentle breezes of a June evening, lies dead in the parking lot of a lesbian bar. Her bewildered silver-blue eyes stare beseechingly into the mind and soul of the woman who kneels beside her: LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield.

The…

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3
The Beverly Malibu

On Thanksgiving Day, LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield and her partner, Ed Taylor, are called to an apartment building on the edge of Beverly Hills to investigate a premeditated and pitiless murder.

No one appears particularly grieved by the shocking end to old-time Hollywood director Owen Sinclair. Surely not three…

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4
Murder by Tradition

When a successful gay restaurateur is stabbed to death, Kate Delafield’s investigation puts her in conflict with her own fear of being outed as a lesbian. Can Kate testify for the prosecution with her integrity intact, when the killer’s attorney, the only man who knows the truth about Kate’s -sexuality,…

5
Liberty Square

Journeying to Washington, D.C., for an FBI seminar, lesbian LAPD homicide detective and ex-Marine Kate Delafield is thrust into an adventure in which she must seek out a killer from among her former military colleagues. Reprint.

6
Apparition Alley

In a riveting new mystery about corruption and murder inside the L.A.P.D., Kate Delafield investigates the murder of a Los Angeles police officer who is about to reveal some deep, dark secrets. Tour.

7
Sleeping Bones

No bones about it. "L.A. policewoman Kate Delafield has been the most acclaimed of the lesbian detectives."--Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

"Ms. Forrest's Los Angeles homicide detective Kate Delafield makes a strong impression...[she] plies her trade with admirable efficiency and more hard-to-come-by integrity."--New York Times Book Review

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8
Hancock Park

It wasn't a typical call for detectives Kate Delafield and Joe Cameron. For one thing, the upscale neighborhood of Hancock Park was more likely to be a stop on a "bus tour of the stars" than a homicide scene. For another, everyone seemed too willing to point the detectives in…

9
High Desert

In this long-awaited new installment of the legendary Kate Delafield mystery series, Kate is forced to confront her most formidable opponent: herself.
Five months into mandated retirement from LAPD, her long term on-again off-again relationship with Aimee Grant off again, hopelessly dependent on the only substance that can drown her…