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Aubrey Lyle is better known by her stripper name, Aisling, at the Naughtyland Club where she works. Asked by her friend and transvestite co-worker, Jossie, to find out whether the new girl is an undercover cop, Aubrey pays her a visit. Shockingly, she finds Cherry strangled and the apartment ransacked. As Aubrey digs deeper, she learns that Cherry was unionizing sex workers, and somebody wanted that stopped.
Now Aubrey knows too much and may hold key evidence implicating the murderer. With her lively roommates as confidantes and sidekicks, she insists on following the clues, wherever they lead.
This vivid roller coaster story about the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, and what it takes for a woman to make a bit of money, is not only a solid mystery, but an astute account of life as a sex worker.
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That's a plot summary written by the publisher.
Here's a pre-review, by Library Journal:
When San Francisco stripper and lap-dancer Aubrey Lyle chases
a thieving customer from her club, the owner unjustly suspends her.
Fortuitously, the time off allows Aubrey to investigate the murder
of a new co-worker that occurs the next night. When police more or
less ignore the death, she enlists the aid of one of her laid-back
roommates and canvasses the Tenderloin for clues. First novelist
Scholten (who worked as an exotic dancer while earning her master's
degree in psychology) delivers tightly woven prose, smooth characters
with a penchant for down-and-dirty action, and a fearless heroine.
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