Kate Allen

Biography

Kate Allen grew up in Idaho and New Mexico, but escaped to the big city when she realised she was a dyke. She currently lives in Denver with any number of cats and is supported by a loving and loyal lesbian extended family.

When she is not vacuuming or writing she makes quilts and goes two-stepping at the Country/Western bar.

Books

Alison Kaine Mysteries

Tell Me What You Like

Alison Kaine enters the world of leather dykes after a woman is brutally murdered at a Denver bar. Alison confronts the issues of S & M, queer bashers and woman-identified sex workers. Fast and action packed.

Published 1993, New Victoria Publishers Inc.

Give My Secrets Back

A dead writer, a missing sister, a leather contest and a host of ghosts from the 1970's combine to make this one riveting mystery. This book stayed on the Lambda Book Review's best seller list for a year.

Published 1995, New Victoria Publishers Inc.

Takes One to Know One

Alison is fighting off a chronic illness and with her best friend Michelle in tow and lover Stacy arriving on the scene there is bedlam and mayhem and maybe a murder to solve.

Published 1996, New Victoria Publishers Inc.

Marta Goicochea Mystery

I Knew You Would Call

I Knew You Would Call features Marta Goicochea, a Basque-American phone psychic and her outrageous butch cousin Mary Clare. Their friend Polly is arrested for murder and Marta uses her psychic insights to discover the truth. Author Kate Allen's novels have the ability to capture the current controversies in the lesbian community and describe them with insight and humor. In this one she tackles the issues of incest survival, abusive lesbian relationships, and child custody. I Knew You Would Call is complex, funny, powerfully written, and more realistic than most mysteries, lesbian or otherwise.

Published 1991, New Victoria Publishers Inc.

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Last updated 21 Feb 1998