Books
Punishment With Kisses by Diane Anderson-Minshall
Home from college, Megan spends her days in her east-wing room of her parents’ palatial estate overlooking the pool house where her sister has taken up residence. Her sister Ashley spends her days wildly bucking convention, bringing home a bevy of female lovers, each one more dangerous than the last, and making love to them by the pool-in plain view of her sister, their conservative parents, and their bewildered staff. Ashley stays out all hours, goes places that she doesn’t tell anyone about, and keeps secrets that only she knows. Then one night, Ashley is murdered, and when the case grows cold, Megan immerses herself in her sister’s underground life in order to find out who killed her and why. She starts by finding Ashley’s diary and begins a sexual odyssey of her own. Will she find the answers she seeks, or will her growing relationship with one of Ash’s exes blind her to the real truth?
Blind Faith
The third in The Blind Eye Mystery Series
There are dozens of unlicensed, lock down schools for “troubled” kids in this country, where abuses like shock therapy and forced confinement are being done in the name of treatment. Their crimes? Being queer or transgender.
But what happens to the kids when God and torture together can’t cure them? That’s what private investigator Yoshi Yakamota and the Blind Eye Detective Agency must determine when a girl goes missing and two more fall to their death from a rocky oceanside cliff in what appears to be a tragic accident.
Although the events seem unrelated, they have one thing in common: the controversial Pioneer Institute, a faith-based residential ex-gay youth program. Will sending a Blind Eye team member undercover reveal what’s behind the school’s terrible safety record, or will it just put another young woman in harm’s way?
Blind Leap
The camera doesn’t lie, but sometimes it captures a story worth killing for.
When Jeff Conant, the new executive director of San Francisco’s Frameline Film Festival, takes a header off the Golden Gate Bridge, he is considered just another statistic–one of the thousands who’ve leapt from the landmark to commit suicide–until an independent filmmaker’s camera on the bridge reveals that Jeff’s death was neither accident nor suicide. Yoshi Yakamota and the investigators at Blind Eye Detective Agency uncover evidence suggesting that Jeff was murdered because he’d viewed a film that someone didn’t want to see the light of day. But what was on the film? It’s missing from Jeff’s office, and the Blind Eye team soon discovers that the person that sent it has also turned up dead in suspicious circumstances. Clearly someone has a secret they’re willing to kill for, and a Blind Eye team member is getting dangerously close to exposing it.
Blind Curves
The murdered body of lesbian publisher Rosemary Finney is found on a remote hiking path south of San Francisco. Local police of the wealthy Woodside enclave quickly focus on a prime suspect: Investigative Reporter Velvet Erickson. Velvet appeals to her friend and former lover–private eye Yoshi Yakamota, whose detective skills more than make up for her failing eyesight–for help. Yoshi dedicates the resources of her firm, Blind Eye Detective Agency, to proving her friend’s innocence. But every time the investigators rule out one suspect, another takes their place. What has Rosemary Finney done to make so many enemies? And which one did it?