ABSTRACT
Contemporary US writer, specializing in lesbian popular fiction. McNab, like Katherine V.FORREST, Sarah DREHER, and a number of other writers, has contributed significantly to the establishment of the lesbian detective novel, a genre that gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s when a number of writers invented lesbian sleuths, appropriating a predominantly male genre and resituating its narratives in lesbian and gay, or all-female, settings. McNab’s Detective Inspector Carol Ashton is one such lesbian sleuth. Beginning with Lessons in Murder (1988), McNab progressed to write a series of lesbian thrillers including Fatal Reunion (1989), the second Carol Ashton thriller, Death Down Under (1990), Cop Out (1991), Dead Certain (1992), Body Guard (1995), Inner Circle (1996), Chain Letter (1997), Under Suspicion (2000), Set Up (2000), and Death Club (2001). McNab also wrote the lesbian romances Under the Southern Cross (1992) and Silent Heart (1993).
