"Micky Knight is a to-die-for creation . . . a Cajun firebrand with the proverbial quick wit, fast tongue and heavy heart."-Lambda Book Report

"One of the most hard-boiled and complex female detectives in print today."-San Francisco Chronicle

Micky takes on the cases of a widowed mother looking for her daughter and a tough gay boy hunting for his biological mother. Together they stir in Micky a desire to search for her own mother, who abandoned her when she was a young girl.

First paperback edition of a W. W. Norton hardcover original.

J. M. Redmann grew up in coastal Mississippi, headed north and graduated from Vassar and has been living in New Orleans for the past 15 years.

As the fourth in the series, Lost Daughters has to be Redmann's best. The character of Micky Knight has grown throughout the series and in the best ways. If you haven't picked up Redmann's earlier works, do so, however, you can easily read Lost Daughters on it's own. Redmann writes so well, great descriptions, great characters, conversations and more. The story is interesting, tying in so much of Micky's life and answering long asked questions.

JM Redmann, you have a winner here and I hope to read more soon!


All of the Micky Knight books are fabulous   March 14, 2003
 5 out of 5 found this review helpful

and it's a crying shame that they are not kept affordably in print--for one thing, it deprives Redmann of some very well earned revenue. In many ways, this 4th installment of Micky's adventures reads like the natural conclusion to the cycle of investigations opened by the first volume in the series, when we were introduced to a tough and beautiful lesbian babe-magnet with a smart mouth and endless compassion for those in trouble. She's physical (and even promiscuous--but the series is about how she gets tamed), she's achingly vulnerable, she's noble, she's got demons. Only in Lost Daughters do we meet her settled into a proper relationship, so the angst quotient is considerably lower than in the other books. Still, the conclusion to her search for her mother is unbelievably touching, and handled with just the right measure of reserve. Much as I'd love to see more of her, I wonder whether Redmann (whose website, ominously, appears to have vanished from cyberspace) is finished with her adventures. If she is, I just pray that she has another heroine in reserve for us to cheer on. Like the Meg Darcy books, with their lovingly depicted St. Louis locales, the Mickey Knight stories set us in a believable New Orleans, with its social strata, its weather, its flavors and smells.


Hungry for more   July 27, 2000
 4 out of 5 found this review helpful

Micky Knight is even in a monogamous relationship the finest heart-throb of lesbian suspense. JM Redman is more than just a novel writer, her characters are very real, with every day issues, hopes, dreams and disappointments. Hopefully she will keep Micky Knight alive for many years to come. Too bad both her first books "Deaths of Jocasta" and "Death by the Riverside" are already out of print and no longer available - so, get this book while you still can !


Lost Daughters: A Micky Knight Mystery   June 17, 2000
 3 out of 5 found this review helpful

This is a thoughtful and well-written novel, but is more a work of fiction than a mystery. The focus of this book is on Micky's growth as an emotionally functional adult rather than on her sleuthing skills. The mysterty feels more a device to facilitate Micky's search for her mother than a main plot. Although this was not quite the book I was expecting given Micky's rather colorful escapades in previous books, Ms. Redmann's writing skill is excellent and Micky is a character than you can not help but like. I look forward to many future encounters with Micky!


Remarkable   August 12, 1999
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

The growth of Micky Knight as a character and as a woman has been no less than remarkable. I have not always agreed with all of Micky's choices, but they are always true to her character. This is one of the best books and best series I read. This book was a long time coming and well worth the wait. I look forward to [hopefully] many more.