Shortlisted for the 2005 Lambda Literary Awards The first Kylie Kendall Mystery Crikey! Kylie Kendall is in a whole mess of trouble... Running a pub in the outback town of Wollegudgerie doesn't offer much fun or future for knockabout Aussie dyke Kylie Kendall, so when the father she never knew dies and leaves her 51% of his Los Angeles-based private-eye agency, it's bright lights, big city for America-bound Kylie.

Running a pub in the outback town of Wollegudgerie doesn't offer much fun or future for knockabout Aussie dyke Kylie Kendall, so when the father she barely knew dies and leaves her 51% if his Los Angeles-based private-eye agency, it's bright lights, big city for America-bound Kylie. Decidely peeved is her father's former business partner, the beautfiul, enigmatic Ariana Creeling, who wants to buy Kylie out and gives her a chilly reception.

But the two women soon have other matters to attend to. Dr Dave Deer, shrink to the stars whose Slap! Slap! Get On With It therapy has made him a celebrity, hires the firm to ivestigate a theft of patient records and the subsequent apparent suicide of a successful but reviled film director. Concerned for his professional reputation, Dr Deer would much prefer that the death of his former client be revelaed to be a murder. Best-selling mystery novelist Claire McNab lauches her newest series with a giant bang as the sparks between Ariana and Kylie - and the folks who would like to see them dead - fly in the City of Angels.

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