Local queer author Kathryn Nolan’s entertaining new novel, “Thrill of the Chase,” has intrepid bisexual reporter Harper Hendrix trying to find famed lesbian treasure hunter Monty Montana in Santa Fe, NM. Monty became reclusive after a big find followed by a bad experience with the media. Harper hopes to write Monty’s story to get a promotion and “save her career.” However, her best lead to finding Monty is Eve Bardot, the “dangerously alluring” co-owner of an antique store and workshop (who has an unspoken connection to Monty).

Of course it is loathe at first sight for these two women, but they eventually team up together to find the Blackburn Diamonds — which Monty is also hunting. If they are, as rumored, buried somewhere in the Southwest, it should lead them to Monty. As Harper and Eve

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