The adventures of Isabel
Subtitle: a postmodern mystery, by the numbers
By: Candas Jane Dorsey
Series: An Epitome Apartments mystery -- 1
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781773056012; 9781773056005
Subjects: Social workers; Fiction; Murder; Detective and mystery stories; Travailleurs sociaux; Romans, nouvelles; Meurtre
Description: "Book one in a mystery series featuring a queer, nameless amateur detective is ambisexual Kinsey Millhone meets Canadian Lisbeth Salander. Rescued from torpor and poverty by the need to help a good friend deal with the murder of her beloved granddaughter, our downsized-social-worker protagonist and her cat, Bunnywit, are jolted into a harsh, street-wise world of sex, lies, and betrayal, to which they respond with irony, wit, intelligence (except for the cat), and tenacity. With judicious use of the Oxford comma, pop culture trivia, common mystery tropes, and a keen eye for deceit, our protagonist swaggers through the mean streets of -- yes, a Canadian city! --  and discovers that what seems at first to be just a grotty little street killing is actually the surface of a grandiose and glittering set of criminal schemes."--