Barbara Sjoholm

Cassandra Reilly is back! She is still very much the translator, the "accidental, expatriate, dyke detective." This time her adventures are contained in nine short stories from around the globe and there is a crime of some sort (mostly murders) in every one. Of interest, Wilson occasionally makes a serious commentary on the perceptions of what it means to be a feminist and the rights of lesbians as legally married couples.
Death of a Much-Travelled Woman
Murder at the International Feminist Book Fair
Theft of the Poet
Belladonna
An Expatriot Death
Wie Bitte?
The Last Laugh
The Antivariaat Sophie
Mi Novelista… (more)

What starts out as a promise to help a friend of a friend find a missing husband because she can speak Spanish, Cassandra Reilly jets off to Barcelona, Spain. She soon finds herself running all over the city, as in running into old lovers left and right. She is supposed to be looking for Ben Stevens, husband to Frankie. Instead, her time is taken up with deflecting old lover, Ana, and Ana's quest to start a family with Cassandra; or lusting after on again-off again lover and hairdresser, Carmen; or getting orgasmic foot massages from the wacky weird foot therapist, Alice. Occasionally, in between being starved for sexual companionship, and looking for lost people, Cassandra works on translating a South American best seller and discovering the genius of Antonio Gaudi's architecture. Then there's looking for Ben...remember the missing husband of Frankie? Only, it isn't Ben who is missing. This is a never ending kidnapping caper. The gender bending gets confusing at times.… (more)