Mississippi
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, US), known professionally as J. M. Redmann and R. Jean Reid, is an American novelist best known for her Micky Knight mystery series, which has won the
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery
The Lambda Literary Award for Mystery is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, to a mystery novel by or about people in the LGBT community. Prior to 2021, the award was separated into separate categories for Gay a ...
three times and been a finalist four times.
Redmann's novels contain similar themes regarding "the protagonist's troubled childhood and how it affects her adult life,
discrimination
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based on sexual orientation and
alcoholism
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. Her novels follow the tradition of
hardboiled
Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence o ...
fiction."
She "is a gay rights activist and works as the director of prevention at NO/AIDS Task Force."
Awards
Bibliography
Anthology contributions
* ''The Milk of Human Kindness'', edited by Lori L. Lake (2004)
* ''Women of Mystery: An Anthology'', edited by
Katherine V. Forrest
Katherine V. Forrest (born 1939) is a Canadian-born American writer, best known for her novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield. Her books have won and been finalists for Lambda Literary Award twelve times, as well as other awards. ...
(2006)
* ''Women in Uniform: Medics and Soldiers and Cops, Oh My!,'' edited by Pat Cronin (2010)
* ''Lesbians on the Loose: Crime Writers on the Lam'', edited by Narrelle M. Harris (2015)
* ''The Only One in the World: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology'', edited by Narrelle M. Harris (2021)