Rainbow Reviews

BOOK BLURB:
Death in a research library sets Dick on a convoluted trail of fathers and sons, suicide, a closeted writer, and a tragic love.

BOOK REVIEW:
The tenth in the Dick Hardesty mysteries presents us with a more mature Jonathan. Though still sweet and adorable, he isn’t quite as naive as once he was. I think parenthood is good for him, though I can’t help missing the person he used to be.

During a party, someone makes unkind and insensitive references to an occasion when he’d had sex with Jonathan during the latter’s hustler days. Dick leaps in and punches the guy, causing me to cheer.

I particularly enjoyed Dick’s mixture of empathy and frustration with the long dead Morgan Burrows, a man who found himself trapped in the closet by both family and the times he lived in. Dick is reminded of how much easier life is for him and Jonathan.

Gray’s writing seems to have grown, Not that I had any problem with it before. The murder-mystery plot is complex and seems to have more twists. However, I had no problem in keeping up. There aren’t as many suspects this time, and those paying very close attention will be able to spot whodunit, though I defy anyone to be totally sure until close to the end.

I definitely recommend this story.

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