Chicago area high school teacher Tom Mason and his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter have had a taxing year. After publicly coming out, Scott and Tom have had to deal with a firestorm of publicity, a major loss of privacy, a great outpouring of support and an equal number of cra...
Paul Turner is a widowed father of two teenaged boys, one of whom has spina bifida, rapidly approaching middle age, and used to dealing gracefully with all the challenges these things entail. Turner, however, is slightly different from others in his situation - he's openly gay and a homicide dete...
Craig Lenzati, the rich and powerful CEO of Chicago's answer to Microsoft, is found brutally murdered with stab wounds all over his body. The murder is reported anonymously, and a quick and quiet resolution to the case is demanded by City Hall. Meanwhile, the list of suspects is almost endless an...
The following is a review I wrote in 2001:Tom and his lover, Scott, return to the South when Scott's father has serious heart problems. Scott, who is a pro ball player, has just come out professionally, and the couple is still reeling from the repercussions. Needless to say, the trip South doesn'...
The latest in the Lambda Literary Award-winning Tom and Scott series. When schoolteacher Tom Mason is accused of killing the high scool principal, Tom and his lover, Scott Carpenter, set out to catch the murderer and prove Tom's innocence.
A series of three bombs destroy a local health clinic, killing many and injuring many others including high school teacher and clinic volunteer Tom Mason. While Tom is hospitalized, his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, begins to believe that Tom may have been the intended vict...
After a difficult summer, the last thing that gay high school teacher Tom Mason needs in the new school year is turmoil. But a conservative parents' group, "worried" about gay teachers corrupting the students, is attempting to take over the local PTA. And it soon gets worse--one of the ringleader...
Father Sebastian, the only good priest everybody knows, is dead. Pastor of a parish outside Chicago, Father Sebastian was also involved in the gay community through his work with Faith, the gay Catholic organization the diocese is trying to drive out of the church. High school teacher Tom mason,...
Is he okay?”Turner said, “I have difficult news. Melvin is dead.”“Oh, my dear. Oh, my.” Her hand flew to her face. “His poor mother. He takes care of her. His brothers and sisters treat Melvin and their mother like dirt. She has no one else. That poor man and his poor mother. What on Earth happen...
I want to be the one in charge of that moment. I want power over them. I want the cops to be the ones without the power for the first time. I like to watch their eyes as they realize they are going to die. Back at Lenzati’s home in his electronics room, they met with the computer tech from the de...
No one objected. The trip to the hospital was silent except for moments when we passed over a railroad crossing. Then the person riding shotgun would say, “Tracks,” and the people in back would hold Scott more steadily and hang onto an IV bottle which was already dripping into his arm. At the hos...
In the dimness from the strip of light at the bottom of the door I could see Scott."Are you all right?" Scott asked."Maybe a couple bruises. You?""I'm fine."Scott asked, "Now what, Sherlock?" I appreciated the lack of sarcasm in his voice."In the stories, Sherlock Holmes never got caught and tied...
1 I hate grading spelling tests. Quizzes, essays, book reports, even twenty-page research papers I don’t mind. Somewhere in the seventh circle of hell, the doomed English teachers slave away for eternity grading spelling tests. No fate could be worse. A cold Monday in late December and I wanted t...