Genre:
Mystery
Themes:
Butch / Femme
Danger / In Peril / On the Run
Historical
Mystery / Suspense
Noir / Femme Fatale
Heat Level:
Medium (sex scenes are included and may use mildly graphic description)
Archetypes:
Criminal / Mafia / Prisoner
Geographic Location:
United States: Mid-Atlantic
Setting:
Big City / Urban
Historical
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Queer
Butch / Stud
Protagonist Identity:
Jewish
Trigger/Content Warning:
Rape
Criminal Gold
The Cantor Gold Crime Series , Book 1
By Ann Aptaker
Dapper Dyke art thief and smuggler Cantor Gold is caught in a collision of love, loyalty, lust...and death.
Midnight, New York Harbor, 1949. Cantor Gold, dapper dyke-about-town, smuggler of fine art, waits in her boat under the Brooklyn Bridge for racketeer Gregory Ortine. In the shadow of the bridge, he’ll toss Cantor a satchel of cash, and she’ll toss him a pouch containing a priceless jewel. But the plan, and the jewel, sink when a woman in a red sequined dress drops from the bridge and slams onto Cantor’s boat. She is Opal Shaw, Society Page darling and fiancée of murder-for-hire kingpin Sig Loreale. Through a night of danger, desire, and double-cross, Cantor must satisfy Loreale’s vengeance, stay ahead of an angry Ortine, and untangle the knots of murder tightening around Opal’s best friend and keeper of her dirty secrets, Celeste Copley, a seductress who excites Cantor’s passion but snares her in a labyrinth of lies. The lies explode in a collision of love, loyalty, lust…and death.
