Jean M. Redmann (born June 9, 1955, in Mississippi), known professionally as J. M. Redmann and R. Jean Reid, is an American novelist best known for her Micky Knight mystery series, which has won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery three times and been a finalist four times.
Redmann's novels contain similar themes regarding "the protagonist's troubled childhood and how it affects her adult life, discrimination based on sexual orientation and alcoholism. Her novels follow the tradition of hardboiled fiction."
She "is a gay rights activist and works as the director of prevention at NO/AIDS Task Force."
Redmann's work has influenced several Spanish authors, who have also created detective characters and developed crime fiction stories based on lesbian female characters. These authors include Clara Asunción García, Isabel Franc, and Susana Hernández.
Awards +Awards for Redmann's writingYearWorkAwardResultRef.1993Deaths of JocastaLambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery 1996Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery2000Lost DaughtersLambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery 2010Death of a Dying ManLambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery2011Water MarkGolden Crown Literary Society Award for Mystery/ThrillerLambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery Rainbow Award for LGBT Mystery2012Night Shadows: Queer HorrorShirley Jackson Award for Edited AnthologyLambda Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror2013Ill WillLambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery2018Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery 2024TransitoryJoseph Hansen Award
Publications
Micky Knight series Death by the Riverside (1990) Deaths of Jocasta (1992) The Intersection of Law and Desire (1995) Lost Daughters (1999) Death of a Dying Man (2009) Water Mark (2010) Ill Will (2012) The Shoal of Time (2013) The Girl on the Edge of Summer (2017) Not Dead Enough (2019) Transitory (2023) The Smallest Day (2025)
Nell McGraw series (as R. Jean Reid) Roots of Murder (2016) Perdition (2017)
Anthology contributions The Milk of Human Kindness, edited by Lori L. Lake (2004) Women of Mystery: An Anthology, edited by Katherine V. Forrest (2006) Women in Uniform: Medics and Soldiers and Cops, Oh My!, edited by Pat Cronin (2010) Lesbians on the Loose: Crime Writers on the Lam, edited by Narrelle M. Harris (2015) The Only One in the World: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology, edited by Narrelle M. Harris (2021)
Anthologies edited Women of the Mean Streets, with Greg Herren (2011) Men of the Mean Streets: Gay Noir, with Greg Herren (2011) Night Shadows: Queer Horror, with Greg Herren (2012)
References
External links Jean M. Redmann