J.M. Redmann

Biography

J.M. Redmann is the author of a mystery series featuring New Orleans private detective Michele ‘Micky’ Knight. Her latest book is ILL WILL, which made the American Library Association GLBT Roundtable’s 2013 Over the Rainbow list. Her previous book WATER MARK was also on the Over the Rainbow list and won a Fore Word Gold First Place mystery award. Two of her earlier books, THE INTERSECTION OF LAW & DESIRE and DEATH OF A DAYING MAN have won Lambda Literary Awards; all but her first book have been nominated. LAW & DESIRE was an Editor’s Choice of the San Francisco Chronicle and a recommended book on NPR’s Fresh Air. Her books have been translated into Spanish, German, Dutch, Norwegian and Hebrew. She is the co-editor with Greg Herren of three anthologies, NIGHT SHADOWS: QUEER HORROR, WOMEN OF THE MEAN STREETS: LESBIAN NOIR, and MEN OF THE MEAN STREETS: GAY NOIR. Redmann lives in an historic neighborhood in New Orleans, at the edge of the area that flooded.

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Transitory
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 94,610. Language: English. Published: September 12, 2023 by Bold Strokes Books. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
The cops blow it off as a customer surprised by what was under the dress, but PI Micky Knight knows they’re wrong—she either makes it her case or lets a murderer go free to kill again.
Not Dead Enough
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 82,590. Language: English. Published: December 31, 2019 by Bold Strokes Books. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
A woman who may or may not be dead drags Micky Knight into a messy con game.
The Girl on the Edge of Summer
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 100,230. Language: English. Published: May 15, 2017 by Bold Strokes Books. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
Micky Knight accepts two cases, but neither is the easy investigation it appears. The past is never past—and young girls lead complicated, even dangerous lives.
The Shoal of Time
Series: MIcky Knight Mystery, Book 8. Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 102,100. Language: English. Published: June 4, 2014 by Bold Strokes Books. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
Michele “Micky” Knight, a New Orleans PI, meets an out-of-town team of investigators who are working a human trafficking case. They want someone local to show them around. It sounds easy, and a woman with smiling green eyes is asking. But it stays easy only if Micky stops asking questions—and she’s never been good at that.
Ill Will
Series: MIcky Knight Mystery, Book 7. Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 112,940. Language: English. Published: June 4, 2014 by Bold Strokes Books. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
First, do no harm. But as New Orleans PI Micky Knight discovers, not every health care provider follows that dictum. She stumbles into a tangle of the true believers to the criminally callous, who use the suffering of others for their twisted ends.
Water Mark
Series: MIcky Knight Mystery, Book 6. Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 103,320. Language: English. Published: June 4, 2014 by Bold Strokes Books. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
It's just one more body in one more destroyed house. In New Orleans, after Katrina, there are thousands of destroyed houses and hundreds of body yet to be found. Can one more matter? It does to Micky Knight as she takes on the search to find out who the woman was and why she might have died there.
Death of a Dying Man
Series: MIcky Knight Mystery, Book 5. Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 103,590. Language: English. Published: June 4, 2014 by Bold Strokes Books. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
New Orleans PI Micky Knight just had to get into a butch pissing contest with the journalist partner of a famous doctor working with her lover, Cordelia James. Micky’s insistence that the skills of a reporter are of no use to a PI backfires, and now she’s stuck with a drop-dead gorgeous assistant and the case of a dying gay man looking for a child he might have fathered.
Lost Daughters
Series: MIcky Knight Mystery, Book 4. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 97,830. Language: English. Published: June 4, 2014 by Bold Strokes Books. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
Micky Knight, a bayou-bred and out-of-the-closet New Orleans private investigator, takes on the cases of a widowed mother looking for her daughter and a tough gay boy hunting for his biological mother. When a young woman patient is murdered at Dr. Cordelia James’s clinic, it seems to be just a bizarre coincidence.
The Intersection of Law and Desire
Series: MIcky Knight Mystery, Book 3. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 134,220. Language: English. Published: June 4, 2014 by Bold Strokes Books. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
It is fall in the steamy underworld of New Orleans, the seasons are changing, and so is tough detective Micky Knight's life. Micky takes on the case of the daughter of a friend, who is believed to be sexually abused, not knowing that the investigation will lead her on a dangerous sexual odyssey.
Deaths of Jocasta
Series: MIcky Knight Mystery, Book 2. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 134,310. Language: English. Published: June 4, 2014 by Bold Strokes Books. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
Micky Knight, a hard-hitting, tough-talking dyke detective, has been hired to provide security for a party at an old country mansion. It should be easy—a perfect spring evening, mild weather, and women everywhere. Suddenly another woman shows up—brutally murdered, left to die in the surrounding woods. The police find a prime suspect when the body of yet another victim is found in the clinic of Dr.
Women of the Mean Streets
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 103,260. Language: English. Published: March 21, 2014 by Bold Strokes Books. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
These are stories of tough women in hard places. The nights are long, the women are fast, and danger is always a short block or quick minute away. Edited by award winning author/editors J.M. Redmann and Greg Herren, Women of the Mean Streets is an anthology of some of the top, tough women crime writers today, noir stories with a lesbian twist.
Death by the Riverside
Series: MIcky Knight Mystery, Book 1. Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 114,680. Language: English. Published: January 17, 2014 by Bold Strokes Books. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
Among the moss-covered trees and wrought-iron balustrades of southern Louisiana, Detective Michele Knight (Micky to her friends) takes on the seemingly simple job of shooting a few photos for a client, but the going gets rough as Micky finds herself slugging through thugs and slogging through swamps in an attempt to expose a dangerous drug ring.

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