Kate Delafield Series
(Lesbian LAPD homicide detective and ex-Marine)

1. Amateur City (1984)
   Kate and her partner, Ed Taylor, investigate the murder of a highly placed executive, whose body was found by a coworker, a woman who begins to break down Kate's defenses.

2. Murder at the Nightwood Bar (1988)
   Kate investigates the murder of a homeless 19-year-old addict-prostitute, whose battered body is found outside a popular lesbian bar.

3. The Beverly Malibu  -- Winner of the 1989 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery)
   Kate investigates the Thanksgiving Day strychnine poisoning of retired movie director Owen Sinclair AND discovers that he turned over names to the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and destroyed countless careers.

4. Murder by Tradition -- Winner of the 1991 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery)
   When a successful gay restaurateur is stabbed to death, Kate Delafield’s investigation puts her in conflict with her own fear of being outed as a lesbian.

5. Liberty Square (1996)
   In Liberty Square, Kate Delafield's lover convinces her to attend a 25th reunion of those she served with in Vietnam. But as Kate's painful memories of the war resurface, a reunion guest is murdered, and everyone becomes a suspect-including Kate.

6. Apparition Alley (1998)
   A gunfight erupts during what should be a routine drug bust, and Kate is shot by another officer - but no one wants to fess up to the misfire.  Soon, Kate finds a connection between her own "accident" and the suspicious demise of another cop-who may have been on the verge of outing gay and lesbian officers.

7. Sleeping Bones (1999)
   When an elderly man is brutally slain at the La Brea Tar Pits, LAPD Detective Kate Delafield finds herself digging up startling information that could uncover humanity's ancient past, and at the same time, expose the city's corrupt present.

8. Hancock Park (2004) -- Winner 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery
   Los Angeles detectives Kate Delafield and Joe Cameron have been assigned to investigate a homicide in the upscale neighborhood of Hancock Park. Suspected of murdering his ex-wife is Douglas Talbot-whose own children are more than willing to see him on death row.
   
   And while Kate is trying to prove his innocence, her personal life gets complicated when her lover Aimee mysteriously disappears.

Science Fiction

1. Daughters of a Coral Dawn (1988)
   Katherine Forrest's bestselling Daughters of a Coral Dawn first appeared in 1984 and became an instant classic. Through seven printings, including the 10th anniversary edition published in 1994, this story of women creating their own world after escaping an oppressive society has continued to gain fans and influence writers for 18 years.

2. Daughters of an Amber Noon --  Finalist, 2002 Lambda Literary Award for Science/Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
   The lesbian science-fiction classic Daughters of a Coral Dawn told the story of a group of pioneering women who disappeared from Earth and colonized the planet Maternas. But what of their sisters left behind? In the highly anticipated sequel, Katherine Forrest tells the story of a group of women called the Unity, who have vanished from society but are still living on earth. But Earth, repressive before the most accomplished and in-dispensable women disappeared, is now a hellish place ruled by the dictator Theo Zedera, known as Zed, and he is seeking the vanished women with ruthless determination. Among them is Africa Contrera, and as she struggles to build a world safe for women, she is haunted by her past, a past in which she and Zed were close friends, a past where she trusted him and shared the deadly knowledge he now uses to hunt her. Is there hope for this new hidden society of women? However resourceful they may be, can they withstand the savagery of a man who uses their own secrets against them? Just as she did 18 years ago, Katherine Forrest has created a brilliant and breathtaking saga of a divided society and the rebels courageous enough to withstand this brutal new world.

3. Daughters of an Emerald Dusk (2005)
   Late in the twenty-second century, 4,000 women escape the tyranny of a male-dominated Earth and colonize the planet of Maternas. Katherine V. Forrest's influential 1984 novel, Daughters of a Coral Dawn, told the story of this exodus. Her 2000 novel, Daughters of an Amber Noon, told the story of the women left behind on Earth. Now she returns to Maternas at last. Fifty years have passed, and the first generation born on Maternas has reached maturity. But their vision of a perfect world is very different from the vision of the founders of the Maternas colony.

Novels

• Curious Wine (1990)
  The intimacy of a cabin at Lake Tahoe provides the combustible setting that brings Diana Holland and Lane Christianson together in this passionate novel of first discovery. Candid in its eroticism, intensely romantic, and remarkably beautiful, Curious Wine is a love story that will remain in your memory.

• An Emergence of Green (1988)
  New to the Los Angeles area, leading a nomadic life of comfort and privilege, Paul and Carolyn Blake are an American success story. Paul is a self-made man who has overcome hardship to achieve a successful business career. Carolyn is the perfect young wife who has made him the envy of other men. Then Val Hunter and her ten-year-old son move in next door. An artist just coming into her own, she is a startling and unconventional woman on all counts: physically imposing, and with a burgeoning independence of spirit--and a sexuality that breaks through in her passion for Carolyn.
  
  Paul Blake knows a threat when he sees one, and he knows immediately that Val is exceedingly dangerous. She will expose Carolyn to values that will challenge what Carolyn has accepted and taken for granted. He must fight to retain possession of his wife, and fight he will.
  
  An Emergence of Green is a timeless novel of no-holds-barred combat between a man and a woman for the body and soul of the woman they both covet.

• Flashpoint (1994)

Short Stories

• Dreams and Swords (1988)

Other

• Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories (1993) by Pam Keesey (1993)