Genre:
Mystery
Themes:
Butch / Femme
Historical
Murder / Crime / Serial Killer
Mystery / Suspense
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
Shop / Gallery
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Queer
Butch / Stud
Protagonist Identity:
Jewish
Trigger/Content Warning:
typical violence for the crime/mystery genre
Tarnished Gold
Golden Crown Literary Award (Goldie)
Lambda Literary Award (Lammy)
The Cantor Gold Crime Series, Book 2
By Ann Aptaker
Dapper Dyke Cantor Gold hunts for a missing masterpiece...and evades a killer.
New York City, 1950. Cantor Gold, art smuggler and dapper dyke-about-town, hunts for a missing masterpiece she’s risked her life to bring through the port of New York. She must outsmart the Law that wants to jail her; outrun the dockside gangsters who would let her take the fall for murder; and outplay a shady art dealer, his lover, and a beautiful curator who toys with Cantor’s passion. Through it all, Cantor must stay out of the gunsights of a killer who’s knocking off rivals for the missing masterpiece—and stay alive to solve the mystery of her stolen love: Sophie de la Luna y Sol.
