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(More customer reviews)There's a stripper in high heels running down a dirty street in the crusty San Francisco Tenderloin. Wearing little more than a layer of pancake makeup, she is hell bent on catching the john that just snatched a hundred dollars out of her bra. Reader; meet Aubrey Lyle, the character who's about to change the face of women's detective fiction. Day Stripper, written by newcomer Jenny Scholten and released October, 2000, by New Victoria Press, introduces the pragmatic Lyle, a young woman just trying to make a living stripping in San Francisco. When Lyle discovers one of her coworkers strangled with her own pink leather bikini top, she decides she had better investigate before the police try to pin it on her. In a rich narrative voice that describes San Francisco and its strip joint neighborhoods with authority, Scholten lets us perch on Lyle's shoulder as she digs her way deeper and deeper into the complex tale of a corrupt union boss, a zealous union organizer and S&M queen, and a supporting cast of disinterested sex workers, not to mention a flat full of angst-ridden house-mates. Unlike other popular detectives, Aubrey Lyle lives far beyond the fringes of the mainstream. She is almost entirely unsentimental, makes no apologies for her lifestyle, and has no grand ambitions to become something `better' some day. Her life suits her well enough just as it is, assuming she can solve the murder before she becomes the next victim. Day Stripper, based very loosely in part on Scholten's experiences as a dancer in one of the first strip clubs ever to unionize in San Francisco, is above all believable. The language is lush,the denouement is plausible and the build-up is satisfyingly suspenseful. Aubrey Lyle, while not sympathetic exactly, is likeable and real.
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In the First Aubrey Lyle mystery by Jenny Scholten, Aubrey finds out taking it all off leaves a lot covered up when one of the Live Nude Girls ends up dead and she must investigate. With her lively housemates as sidekicks and confidants, Aubrey uncovers a sordid network of self-serving politicians, smarmy club owners and corrupt union organizers.
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