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Anne Laughlin

Born: 1955 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: Lesley Gowan

Connection to Illinois: Anne lives in Chicago.

Biography: Anne Laughlin is the author of the novels Veritas and Runaway. Her novel The Collectors was written under the pen name Lesley Gowan.Anne’s short stories have appeared in anthologies from Cleis Press, Alyson Books, Bold Strokes Books and others. Her awards include Best Lesbian Mystery in 2010 for Veritas from the Golden Crown Literary Society (the “Goldies”), and a short list nomination in the Lesbian Erotica category for The Collectors in 2011 from the Lambda Literary Foundation (the “Lammys).Anne was selected as a Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Writer Fellow in 2008.


Awards:
  • -- 2010 Golden Crown Literary Society Award , ''Veritas''
  • -- Lambda Literary Award nomination , ''The Collectors''

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Other

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: annie3310@gmail.com
Website: http://www.annelaughlinwriter.com/
Anne Laughlin on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=anne+laughlin


Selected Titles

Runaway
ISBN: 9781602826892 OCLC: 826024083

With her life as a private investigator in Chicago firmly established, Jan Roberts can often forget where she came from--a backwoods survivalist camp run by her paranoid, dictatorial father. After risking her life at sixteen to escape the camp, she finds it hard to understand the runaway teenager she's been hired to find. With each step on the trail to find her, Jan realizes the girl is running to the same part of Idaho she fled, a digital age version of her father's way of life--Page 4 of cover.

Runaway /
ISBN: 1602826498 OCLC: 747533278

"With her life as a private investigator in Chicago firmly established, Jan Roberts can often forget where she came from--a backwoods survivalist camp run by her paranoid, dictatorial father. After risking her life at sixteen to escape the camp, she finds it hard to understand the runaway teenager she's been hired to find. With each step on the trail to find her, Jan realizes the girl is running to the same part of Idaho she fled, a digital age version of her father's way of life"--Page 4 of cover.

Veritas
ISBN: 9781602824133 OCLC: 768490935

Bold Strokes Books, Valley Falls, NY : 2009.

When the hallowed halls of academia become the stage for murder, newly appointed Dean Beth Ellis's search for the truth leads her to unexpected discoveries about her own heart.

Veritas /
ISBN: 1602821240 OCLC: 317453839

Bold Strokes Books, Valley Falls, NY : 2009.

"When the hallowed halls of academia become the stage for murder, newly appointed Dean Beth Ellis's search for the truth leads her to unexpected discoveries about her own heart. For Beth Ellis, Grafton College and its faculty and students are her home and family. But the president of the college rubs everyone the wrong way, the new English professor on campus isn't much more popular, and Beth has her hands full trying to keep the peace as various campus factions quarrel. Still, she didn't expect a tenure battle to end in murder. Sally Sullivan left the Chicago police homicide division and returned to her hometown where, as chief of police, she expected her greatest challenges to be dealing with car accidents and drunk drivers. But faced with a murder investigation with more motives than evidence and an inexperienced staff, Sally finds small-town policing isn't as simple as she thought. Neither are her growing feelings for Beth Ellis. As Sally and Beth's different worlds collide, their desire to solve the murder is complicated by their unexpected attraction. A second murder on campus places the survival of the college itself, their tenuous relationship, and even their lives in jeopardy."--Publisher's description.

 

 

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