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Overview
In Liberty Square, Kate Delafield's lover convinces her to attend a 25th reunion of those she served with in Vietnam. But as Kate's painful memories of the war resurface, a reunion guest is murdered, and everyone becomes a suspect-including Kate."L.A. policewoman Kate Delafield has been the most acclaimed of the lesbian detectives."-Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Synopsis
New to the Los Angeles area, leading a nomadic life of comfort and privilege, Paul and Carolyn Blake are an American success story. Paul is a self-made man who has overcome hardship to achieve a successful business career. Carolyn is the perfect young wife who has made him the envy of other men.
Then Val Hunter and her ten-year-old son move in next door. An artist just coming into her own, she is a startling and unconventional woman on all counts: physically imposing, and with a burgeoning independence of spirit—and a sexuality that breaks through in her passion for Carolyn.
Paul Blake knows a threat when he sees one, and he knows immediately that Val is exceedingly dangerous. She will expose Carolyn to values that will challenge what Carolyn has accepted and taken for granted. He must fight to retain possession of his wife, and fight he will.
An Emergence of Green is a timeless novel of no-holds-barred combat between a man and a woman for the body and soul of the woman they both covet.
Author Biography: Katherine V. Forrest is one of the best-known lesbian writers in the world. Author of 13 works of fiction, all of which have been published abroad, she is twice winner of the Lambda Literary Award for best mystery, and has been honored with the Pioneer Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation. She has been profiled in virtually every major lesbian and gay publication in America, as well as in numerous magazines and newspapers internationally. Senior fiction editor at Naiad Press from 1984 to 1994, she now teaches classes and seminars on the craft of writing. She lives with her partner, Jo Hercus, and a tabby cat named Stevie, in San Francisco.
Feminist Library Newsletter
The story is well crafted and Katherine Forrest uses all her mystery story skills to build up the suspense.