num_pages: 254
description: When Cordelia Thorn ventures to Summer Green, Wisconsin, for a reunion with some old college friends, she finds trouble in paradise. Twenty-plus years have definitely changed things. Soap opera star Diana has become an alcoholic. Curt and Annie's marriage is falling apart. Orson is hostile and surly. And Theo, the most passionate of them all, suddenly dies -- of an apparent heart attack.Alarmed, Cordelia sends for her old friend Jane Lawless to do some quiet snooping. Together they follow their hunches -- into the not-so-carefree past and back to the troubled present, where they find a single match could blow up all their lives....
language: English
title: A Small Sacrifice
titlecomplete: A Small Sacrifice (Jane Lawless, #5)
characters: Curt Whittig, John Hubble, Chickie Johnson, Orson Albern, Hilda Barnes, Cordelia Thorn, Diana Stanwood, Amity Scarborough, Annie Whittig, Theodore Donati, Jane Lawless
genres: Fiction, Lesbian Fiction, Mystery, Queer, LGBT, Lesbian, Adult, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 340
series: Jane Lawless
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Mystery, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Minnesota Book Award
category: Mystery & Detective
publisher: Fawcett Books