‘Missing Lynx’ by Kim Baldwin

Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by Victoria Brownworth in Mystery

Lambda Literary Award Finalist

Missing Lynx is the latest in the Elite Operatives thriller series by Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou. Even if you haven’t read the two previous offerings–Lethal Affairs and Thief of Always (gotta love these 1960s style spy titles)—you can easily fall into this third installment.

Missing Lynx puts the thrill in thriller. Cassady Monroe, concert violinist and spy also known as Lynx, is only 25, but quite the prodigy. When a serial killer known as Headhunter, a grisly purveyor in the skin trade resurfaces, Cassady/Lynx must test her mettle on the case–her first real assignment for the Elite Operatives.

In true thriller style, Baldwin and Alexiou take their women around the globe. Missing Lynx takes us from Vienna, all around the U.S. Southwest, on to New York, down to some of the most dangerous parts of Mexico, on to China and Vietnam and back to the Southwest. Quite the wild ride. But that’s what lends verisimilitude to this tale of the traffic in human beings.

Lynx hooks up with a mercenary during her journey and that relationship sends a sizzle through the story that is palpable. Heroine and anti-heroine. Quite the chemistry.

A dark, edgy, often grisly tale, Missing Lynx has the grit and pacing of a Bourne saga, but with highly engaging and thoroughly challenging female characters. Not for the faint hearted.
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MISSING LYNX
By Kim Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou
Bold Strokes Books
ISBN: 9781602821378
Paperback, $16.95, 312 p.

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About Victoria Brownworth

Victoria A. Brownworth is the Lambda-award-winning author and editor of more than 20 books. She was the book critic for the Baltimore Sun for 17 years and her reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Village Voice, Chicago Sun-Times, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, PW, the Advocate, OUT and Curve, among others. She has been an editor for several major publishing houses. In 2010 she established Tiny Satchel Press, an independent publisher of young adult books geared toward multi-cultural and LGBTQ inclusive writing. Her most recent book, From Where We Sit: Black Writers Write Black Youth, nominated for several awards, was published in February 2011. Her fiction is also included in the Lambda Award-nominated collection Women of the Mean Streets.

Tags: *Lesbian, Bold Strokes Books, Kim Baldwin, Missing Lynx, Xenia Alexiou