Hmmm Where to start with this book... So it was a slow read.. and even though that sounds like a bad thing - it's NOT... It's just a slow story for relaxing and enjoying not pelting though.. And that's just what I did, I sat, I read, I enjoyed.Characters are really quite good, setting is describe...
No. 10 of the Dick Hardesty Mystery Series
Dick is commissioned to find a missing partner who is an alcoholic and finds that several men with an alcoholic history have disappeared in the last few years. Dick and his young lover join an alcoholic's psychology discussion group to try to solve the mystery.
A novel about the scandalous behaviour of a governor.
In the continuing saga of Dick Hardesty, gay P.I., he is hired to protect the interests of a gay/bisexual escort service when a client is murdered. Lovers of murder mysteries will find the complex twists and turns fascinating. This books breaks new ground by being the first mystery novel to make ...
One of the residual spots of conflicts in gay rights is in the police force. This work takes that conflict head-on in the murder of a gay policeman and the investigation by the inimitable Dick Hardesty. It involves the entire police force, which is suspect in this community mystery.
Dick and his lover, Jonathan, finally manage to take a holiday, and it is, to some extent, a sentimental journey for Dick -- it is to New York City, the site of former adventures, and where his former lover is now settled in with a new lover, Max, who happens to be involved in a theatre company. ...
#9 in the Dick Hardesty gay mystery series. Dick and Jonathan are left with Jonathan's nephew to raise when the boy's parents are killed in an accident. This is happening when a woman with a small son living in their building is also killed and Dick goes after the perp, especially after someone c...
When rugged construction worker and biker Cal Hysong is killed, PI Dick Hardesty knows the reason-Cal was widely suspected of deliberately spreading AIDS to other gay men. Like the rest of the gay community, Dick's initial reaction is "good riddance." But when Jake Jacobson and Jared Martinson, t...
my own mental chorus of mind-voices asked. Surely, he couldn’t be that dumb, or assume I am. “So, he never indicated any problem with anyone from the chorus?” He shook his head. “Other than Roger, no. I’m sure some of the members were jealous of Grant’s talent, but I still can’t conceive of that ...
Richie had been found dead in his closed garage with the car engine running. A neighbor had called the police at around midnight, a little more than an hour after we saw him screaming at the guy in Glitter. “Pretty odd coincidence, huh?” Jared said. “Yeah.” But it struck me as a little more than ...
I’d been able to pretty well avoid thinking about him for much of Sunday, but seeing his message pulled me right back in. I wasn’t sure whether I hoped he’d had another call from Patrick, or if I hoped he hadn’t. “Kev,” I said when I heard his voice. “What’s up? Any more…calls?” “Two. Can you com...
“Joshua,” I called, “why don’t you go get out of your pajamas? We’ll be having breakfast soon.” “But we’re playing!” he objected. Jonathan looked down at him and put a hand on his head. “Uncle Dick’s right, Joshua,” he said. “We’ll play later.” Reluctantly, the boy turned and went into his room. ...
It was around 4:15 a.m. (I have observed that most earthquakes tend to strike early in the morning) and I of course slept right through it. With elevated trains rumbling by less than half a block from my apartment every few minutes, it would have taken a pretty strong quake to rouse me. &nb...
So, I was in no mood for the bleached-blond queen who came swishing across the room toward me after making an entrance that made me wonder whatever happened to Loretta Young. There were times when I almost wished I had a few straight clients, and this was one of those times. Still, I told myself,...
And, as I am so fond of quoting, “Circumstantial evidence is finding a trout in the milk.” I waited in the foyer until Max came back from returning the gun and bullets to the box office, then we headed down the side aisle for the door beside the stage which, I assumed, led backstage. We’d gotten ...