Of mixed native and white heritage, fiercely independent, and a graduate student in film studies, Vicky Bauer is far from the perfect wife for a schoolteacher working on a Canadian armed forces base in Germany. Vicky has had the occasional minor scrape with military authorities, as well as an on-again, off-again drinking problem. So when Vicky claims she has seen a woman murdered, and the corpse cannot be found, nobody believes her. Instead, they think she has imagined the whole episode - especially that the killer wore an armed forces uniform. But Vicky begins to uncover a complex web of secrets, illegal activities, and plausible motives for murder. Suspects include her own husband, seemingly a bit too protective of their racist landlord. There is also the base doctor who likes to keep military "dependents" like Vicky tranquilized; the soldier harboring a career-destroying secret; and the investigating lieutenant, suspiciously eager to dismiss Vicky's claims. When drug dealing, political extremism, and homophobia become parts of the puzzle, Vicky realizes she is not simply a witness, but maybe the next target.

After-Image: A Vicky Bauer Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Gom, Leona

United States

St Martins Pr

Prize winning novelist and poet Leona Gom challenges the reader to meet an all-women society of the future. She examines the relations and value system of a culture of women where the few men still alive are in hiding, socialized early in life to regard themselves as inferior. The Y Chromosome a provocative novel that probes women's and men's lives in a society that, despite striking differences, bears many similarities to our world today.

The Y Chromosome

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Sumach Pr

Vicky and her husband are in Germany, living on a Canadian Armed Forces Base. Vicky discovers a body. But when she reports it, the body has disappeared and the police think she has imagined it. Vicky's sleuthing uncovers drug dealing, homophobia and sexism at work in her community and solving the mystery becomes even more important when she realizes her own life is in danger.

After-Image : A Vicky Bauer Mystery

Second Story Press

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