There's been a murder of a young uni student. She's a poet and her work spoke volumes about where her mind was at when it all went down. Jill, the private detective Mickey's parents hired is down to earth, patient woman who sifts through the evidence the police seem to glean over as a school-girl crush. During the investigation, things get strange as Jill becomes involved with Mickey's mother, Diane, and gets her nose into police files from other people she works with. As time goes on, she begins to receive creepy phone messages on her answering machine spoken in a poetic way and the affair with Diane begins to wane. However, this whole thing isn't over as Mickey's teacher - her mentor - is killed in a horrific car crash near Jill's home. now she's a suspect (which doesn't last very long). Just who killed Mickey? In the most poetic and suspenseful book I've read in a long time, find out in 'The Monkey's Mask'.
I love reading this kind of book. It got its hooks into me immediately and wouldn't let go; and I couldn't wait to get back to reading it when it came time to read again. I loved this book in the wonderful way. I will most definitely have to read more of Dorothy Porter's work. This book is lesbian fiction; however, it's beautiful and sexy as well as gritty and gripping to the last poem. Very much worth a read.
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