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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery. Wealthy Belle Dumont vanished from her home in the Minnesota woods only hours before she was to reveal startling news to her three grown children. The kids and Belle's lover deny any knowledge of this mysterious bombshell, but amateur sleuth Jane Lawless, Belle's old friend, suspects these charming folk of being less than forthright. In fact, Jane suspects cold-hearted murder.Tags
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Mystery author Ellen Hart was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in August 1949. She received a B. A. in Theology from the Ambassador College in Pasadena, California. She writes the Jane Lawless and the Sophie Greenway series. Five of the Jane Lawless books have won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery. She has also won the Minnesota show more Book Award for Best Crime Fiction twice. She currently lives in Minneapolis with her life partner. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Robber's Wine
- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- Jane Lawless; Cordelia Thorn; Anne Dumont; Belle Dumont; Fanny Adams; Eddy Dumont (show all 16); Lyle Dumont; Melody Dumont; Helvi Sitala; Quinn Fosh; Dennis Murphy; Pfeifer Biersman; Julia Martinsen; Jeff Weintz; Robert Weintz; Angela McReavy
- Important places
- Pokegama Lake
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- Members
- 143
- Popularity
- 228,116
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- (3.45)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 4
