Anne Seale's latest title "Finding Ms. Wright" is a superb follow-up to her debut novel, "Packing Mrs. Phipps." Soldiering on with a never-overstated lesbian derring-do, Seale's heroine, Jo Jacuzzo, searches the wilds of a seldom-seen Oklahoma for the missing Honey Lou. Jacuzzo's forthright internal dialogue is a laugh-out-loud delight, but the sarcasm is rarely biting, and consequently Jo's insecurities, hunches, and fears...
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Members of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy have been insisting that the Oklahoma schools have been infiltrated by a lesbian underground. One sapphic clique's secrets cause Jo to head down there at the request of her best friend, Weezer. I like this series because Jo is Jo. The money she inherited at the end of the first book (apologies if that's a spoiler) hasn't changed her at all. I'd like the next one to show her life in...
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Jo Jacuzzo gets around the country, in her motor home she calls Dan'l. She took quite a trip from home town Buffalo, NY to Tampa in Packing Mrs. Phipps, Anne Seale's funny and smart first lesbian mystery novel. And now the sometimes too-helpful inquisitive young butch Jo just has to say yes to another friend whose long-ago lover, Honey Lou Wright, is missing. Last seen in the lake country of Oklahoma, which I didn't even...
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