title: Danger in High Places: An Alix Nicholson Mystery
author:  Sharon Gilligan 
description: Lesbian photographer Alix Nicholson is in Washington, D.C., to take pictures of the AIDS quilt when she meets Sandra Hastings, a lone crusader who commandeers the microphone at an AIDS rally to demand that more government money be spent on research into cancers that afflict women instead of on AIDS research. Sandra is low on funds, so Alix invites her to spend the night in her hotel room. The next day Alix learns that Sandra is planning to immolate herself to draw attention to her cause; shortly thereafter, Sandra is found dead after toppling out of a hotel room window--an unfortunate turn of events, since Sandra is the most compelling character in the novel. On a hunch that Sandra's death was not a suicide, Alix investigates and is soon pushed down a long flight of subway stairs by an unseen assailant. Alix stays with a lesbian congressional aide she has just met, and the two spend their time stiffly exchanging biographical tidbits, such as Alix's firing from a high school teaching job because two of her female pupils took naked pictures of each other. The resolution of the mystery is tacky and unrealistic, and Gilligan's ( Faces of Love ) repetitive style is more suited to teaching a lesson than telling a story. <br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  _One bad turn_ … _deserves another._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Charlie has quit her job in close protection, been turned out of her
  apartment, and is apparently out of luck.
  
  
  House-sitting in rural New Jersey has to be the pits—TV and TV dinners. A far
  cry from Iraq... Bulgaria... Afghanistan.
  
  
  Unlucky or not, she happens to be around at the right time to foil a violent
  kidnap attempt on Helena, wife of billionaire arms dealer, Eric Kincaid.
  
  
  Kincaid offers her a job looking after Helena. The rumours about Kincaid’s
  business empire say he’s gone over to the dark side, but Charlie is in no
  position to be fussy. And protecting people against those who want to do them
  harm is what she’s good at. But when the threats against the Kincaids
  escalate, and then follow the couple over to Europe, Charlie’s really going to
  have to up her game. It’s time to take the fight to the enemy.
  
  
  Charlie’s at her best putting an e