The Intersection of Law and Desire: A Mystery - Hardcover

J. M. Redmann grew up in coastal Mississippi, headed north and graduated from Vassar, and has been living in New Orleans for the past fifteen years.

Redmann launches a series featuring Michelle "Mickey" Knight, a detective haunted by ghosts from her abusive childhood and driven by a desire to protect others in the seamy, steamy netherworlds of New Orleans. Her compulsion to save a friend's little girl from suspected sexual abuse, however, jeopardizes her relationship with her lover Cordelia, a beautiful physician; her friends and professional associates; and, eventually, her own life as she goes underground to penetrate the veils of secrecy concealing a well-organized kiddie porn ring. Knight is a gutsy, fast-thinking PI in the Raymond Chandler tradition but has a sardonic ruefulness and humor that are pure 1990s. She is a detective mystery fans both gay and straight will want to see again and again. Whitney Scott