The Adventures of Isabel: An Epitome Apartments Mystery

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When a good friend's beloved granddaughter is murdered, our ambisexual downsized-social-worker and her cat, Bunnywit, are enlisted to help solve the case. For the police, Madeline is just one more dead sex worker - so it is down to our hero and her friends to uncover what happened to her (though not the cat. The cat mainly sulks.)

With humour, sarcasm and a good dose of irony, our protagonist swaggers through the mean streets of a Canadian city tracking down leads to get the bad guy. Aided by a love of mystery fiction the gang dives deep into the underbelly of city life.

What at first seems an average street killing is actually the surface of a grandiose and glittering set of criminal schemes...

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'Candas Jane Dorsey's terrific mysteries are what would happen if RaymondChandler and Frank N. Furter collaborated on cozies and the heroinewere a pansexual private detective with heart, smarts, and a T-shirt sayingMASCARA IS THE NEW NOIR. There's female bonding, sex (lots of it),and a cat or two. You'll scream with laughter, you'll checkmark phrases.And then, if you're a nice person and love your friends, you'll put thesebooks in their hands and insist they read them too.' - Sarah Smith, author ofthe New York Times Notable Book THE VANISHED CHILD

'A little Hammett, a little Hiaasen, a little Lot 49, this is the first book in aseries that demands to be read with writerly intention... The author seeks toshake the reader out of submission and into a clearer vision and examinationof the underpinnings of the genre - the real crime and grime andmeanness of the streets on which it's set. The laughs are thrown in for free' -Janice MacDonald, author of the Randy Craig Mystery series

Author Bio

Candas Jane Dorsey is the award-winning author of science fiction novels Black Wine, A Paradigm of Earth, Machine Sex and Other Stories, Vanilla and Other Stories, and Ice and Other Stories. This is her first mystery series. She is a writer, editor, former publisher, community advocate, and activist living in Edmonton, Alberta.