Blue

Squee! Lesbian mystery novel about a social psychologist, Blue, hired by an accused murderess' brother to prove that she didn't do it. Blue *rocks*. Although her academic career was all about how the differences between men and women can be traced to primordial 'primate' behaviors (a notion I find politically repellant as well as theoretically unsound), she's funny, smart, engaging, cool -- and this book is populated by *wonderful* radical/lesbian feminists all over the place, and whee! (Her dog is shot at one point, but she does recover; read the book anyway.) I will say, however, that Blue shows a disturbing lack of common sense (it's one of those books where one practicially wants to scream at our plucky heroine to get out of there), show more as well as a complete (and surprising) lack of deductive abilities; the mystery won't faze anyone. Nonetheless, it's one of the most entertaining books I've read in ages. Highly recommended. show less

This is one of the strangest books I've ever read. I'm not even sure I liked it but it sure was intriguing. Blue McCarron is a social psychologist. She's also a mess. She's isolated herself in the desert and is dragged into a 5 year old murder. The writing of this story is complicated and often gets in the way but nearly as often is really interesting.