Rainbow Reviews

BOOK BLURB:
When his partner and lover is murdered in an investigation of an international crime syndicate, New York police detective Clint Folsom takes leave from his job and flies to Europe in pursuit of the killer. Folsom finds his quarry on the Rhine River gay male-oriented cruise ship, the MS River God, murdered in the same sadomasochistic manner his partner had been killed. As the cruise glides down the Rhine toward Amsterdam, stopping at German cities along the way to add flavor and twists to the increasingly complex plot, Folsom is thwarted at every turn in his inquiries. He slowly unravels not only what is at stake but also who is involved while finding sexual release among the crew and passengers of the River God. When the German police inspector Sigmund Frist enters the scene, Folsom himself becomes the pursued in more ways than one. A traditional “who done it?” detective murder novel chockablock with intriguing gay male characters and encounters.

BOOK REVIEW:
An astonishing opening rockets the reader straight into the heart of this very intense novel. NYPD Detective Clint Folsom-both highly literate and gay-is scheduled on a fishing vacation to Montana, but instead he stations himself on the solely Gay pleasure cruise ship MS River God on its six-day exploration of the Rhine River, destination Amsterdam. Folsom is hunting the aging gangster responsible for the terribly brutal rape-murder of his partner, Brad, an NYPD undercover detective in the gangster's operation. Clint can't wait for possible extradition of the criminal when he's captured in Amderstam; instead, he has six days on board to take out the murderer himself, achieving both justice and revenge.

Death on the Rhine is a truly nonstop rocket of a story with sexual adventures that never end and murder, sadism, and sociopathic evil determined to carve its wedge out of society. Author habu always demonstrates a different perspective on his characters than readers usually see from other novelists, and this novel is certainly no exception. Relating the seamier ~ and much more painful ~ side of life most of us never notice, still the characters can elicit our empathy and our sympathy in most cases.

Not for the faint of heart, Death on the Rhine is still a fascinating, explicit, suspense-laden mystery which will keep the reader flipping the pages with caught breath.

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