Kate Delafield
Description
As LAPD detective Kate Delafield investigates the Thanksgiving Day strychnine poisoning of retired movie director Owen Sinclair, she discovers that he turned over names to the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and destroyed countless careers. But which of his charmingly eccentric neighbors, most of whom have worked in Hollywood since the 1940s, might be responsible for what now appears to be a revenge killing?
How the series evolves
Books in this Series
The Beverly Malibu
As LAPD detective Kate Delafield investigates the Thanksgiving Day strychnine poisoning of retired movie director Owen Sinclair, she discovers that he turned over names to the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and destroyed countless careers. But which of his charmingly eccentric neighbors, most of whom have worked in Hollywood since the 1940s, might be responsible for what now appears to be a revenge killing?
Apparition alley
Lesbian detective Kate Delafield is shot by a policeman during a burglary. As she recuperates she is told by a colleague the shooting was not an accident, but part of an anti-gay conspiracy in the Los Angeles police department.
Sleeping bones
An anthropologist with links to the CIA and China is murdered near some tar pits in California. Soon after an object is found, resembling the missing jawbone of the Peking Man. Is there a connection? Officer Kate Delafield investigates.