Title: Wicked Games (#8 in the Jane Lawless series) Author: Ellen Hart Published by: St. Martin's Press, 1998 ISBN: 0-312-18680-0 [hardcover, 357 pages]
Five-time Lambda Award winner and two-time Minnesota Book Award winner Ellen Hart delivers a deliciously eerie new novel featuring restaurant owner Jane Lawless.Jane lives in a rambling, three-story house on Minneapolis's Lake Harriet with her aunt and uncle and, usually, a tenant in the third-floor apartment. Her newest renter is Elliot Beauman, a writer who seems nice but who's just graced the newspapers with an account of a murder he witnessed but didn't see: Elliot says he's psychic, and his latest visions have been of murder.
Lately Jane has her hands full in her personal life, wrestling with long hours at the Lyme House Restaurant and a long-distance and often volatile relationship with Julia, whose medical practice keeps her busy and far away. Not to mention Cordelia Thorn, Jane's closest confidante, who moves in while her new loft is being renovated. Cordelia is a supportive friend, but also rather ... um ... demanding. Plus, a new neighbor of Jane's seems intent on becoming friends, or maybe more.
So the last thing Jane needs is a strange man living upstairs in her own home. Little does she know that her troubles are only beginning.
Ellen Hart's latest is another intelligent, absorbing, witty, and suspenseful entry in a popular, thoroughly entertaining mystery series.
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