Come join Micky and dru’s book musings as we sit down for a Q&A session.

What is your full name?
Michele ‘Micky’ Knight.

How old are you?
Now I’m in my late forties.

What is your profession?
Private Detective

Do you have a significant other?
A significant ex—making for an awkward dance with out mutual friends.

What is their name and profession?
Cordelia James, doctor at a community health center

Do you have any children?
No

Do you have any siblings?
No, but an extended Cajun family. I’m close to my cousin, Torbin Robideaux. We’re the lavender sheep of the family.

Are your parents nearby?
No, father deceased, mother an artist in NYC

Who is your best friend?
Joanne Ranson, a homicide detective in the NOPD, also close to Danielle ‘Danny’ Clayton, an assistant DA.

Do you have cats, dogs, or other pets?
Lost the cats in the break-up, pet sit often for my cousin Torbin’s cats.

What town do you live in?
New Orleans

What type of dwelling do you own or rent?
Creole cottage in the Tremé section of town. Built in about 1870. Can’t tell people to look for the house with the purple because two other houses on the block also have purple doors.

What is your favorite spot in your home?
When it’s not too hot, out in the back small patio.

What is your favorite meal and dessert?
Oyster po-boy. Bread pudding, especially the bread pudding souffle at Commander’s Palace.

Do you have any hobbies?
Reading, cooking, drinking good Scotch, hanging with friends

What music do you listen to?
Depends on my mood—can go from classical to Ella to sissy bounce (love Big Freedia).

What is your favorite color?
What color is my door? Purple.

What is your favorite vacation spot?
Love NYC, also had a great trip to Australia, but I like to try new places, see as much of the world as I can.

Are you a morning or night person?
Night. Sunset is as nice as a sunrise and it doesn’t require an alarm clock.

What is your idea of a really fun time?
Good friends, good food, good wine. Especially celebrating solving a case and letting karma work her magic.

If you were to write a memoir, what would you call it?
Tales of the Sazerac Trail.

Amateur or professional sleuth and whom do you work with?
Professional PI, have my own agency. Friends in law enforcement sometimes help, but I have to respect their professional boundaries. And not always tell them how I discovered some of the evidence I pass on to them.

What is a typical day in your life like?
Ignore the alarm clock at least twice. Coffee, something resembling breakfast (day old beignets, count, right?) Head down to my office in the Bywater area of New Orleans. Then it depends on what the day demands. Boring computer searches. Meeting with clients. Out talking to people who might have useful info. Asking hard questions to difficult people. Asking hard questions to kind, gentle people who never thought they’d have to answer these kinds of questions. Sometimes the day stretches on to nighttime stakeouts, catching people at home after work and looking into windows when no one is around to see. Maybe going further if the window is easy to open and I really need to know what’s inside those walls.

Transitory, A Micky Knight Mystery Book #11
Genre: Private Investigator Mystery
Release: September 2023
Format: Print, Digital
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The cops blow it off, another Black transgender woman who surprised a customer with what was under the dress—bad luck she was pushed out of the car and then hit by another vehicle. But Micky Knight witnessed it, crossing the street at the right—or wrong—time, only yards away from what didn’t look at all like an accident to her. The woman was dressed more like a librarian than a sex worker. It’s not her case, she was just walking home from a local bar. No ID was found on the victim, and the only clue is an appointment card with cryptic initials, CJ at CC. Micky has a good idea what they mean—Cordelia James at CrescentCare, a local health clinic that sees many transgender clients. Cordelia, a doctor and her ex. Micky doesn’t want to get involved, but there will be no justice if she doesn’t. As she investigates, she uncovers a family in turmoil and ugly secrets—ones people will kill for.

About the author
J.M. Redmann is the author of a mystery series featuring New Orleans private detective Michele “Micky” Knight. Her 2013 release, Ill Will, made the American Library Association GLBT Roundtable’s Over the Rainbow list. Her previous book Water Mark was also on the Over the Rainbow list and won a Fore Word Gold First Place mystery award. Two of her earlier books, The Intersection of Law & Desire and Death of a Dying Man, have won Lambda Literary Awards; all but her first book have been nominated. Law & Desire was an Editor’s Choice of the San Francisco Chronicle and a recommended book on NPR’s Fresh Air. Her books have been translated into Spanish, German, Dutch, Norwegian, and Hebrew. She is the co-editor with Greg Herren of three anthologies, Night Shadows: Queer Horror, Women of the Mean Streets: Lesbian Noir, and Men of the Mean Streets: Gay Noir.