Author: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain
Publisher: Cipher
Paperback
Burley Fisher Books of the Year 2025
So says… If you’re not so into an angel on your tree, how about topping it with Alice B. Toklas’s secret horn? Prudence Bussey-Chamberlin’s heroine is juggling grief and childcare, and has decided that being a PI is less precarious than being a humanities academic. But when a case arrives that’s right in her Modernist wheelhouse (plus unlimited expenses and sex gossip), she jumps at the chance, and onto the Eurostar for a rummage around the lesbian Left Bank of our fantasies. The quest for a lesbian horn will lead her into many libraries, and also bedrooms, in this brilliantly queer take on the private dick. Bone Horn is due cult classic status, so jump on it now.