Genre: Mystery
LGBTQ+ Category: Various
Reviewer: Ulysses
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About The Book
Four murders. Four different areas of the city. Four different methods. No apparent connection between the victims.
But one of the victims was Clinton Kenneally’s best friend. When the death is initially ruled a suicide, Clinton hires his old friends at Angeles Investigations to get to the truth.
What they find makes no sense…until the librarians get involved.
The Review
One of the features of this new series of detective stories is the huge cast of characters. Of course we have Jamie Brody, now working with his brother in a private agency, but we have a whole crew of diverse men and women, both in the agency itself and within the vast Los Angeles police system. The connections among all these players are complicated, but essential, and their stories enrich the atmosphere of the book.
Four murders in disparate parts of greater LA begin to come together when an old friend of Jamie and his librarian colleagues appears to challenge a death that appears to be a suicide. The network of friends, family, and colleagues begins to focus its many talented minds on a puzzle as bizarre as it is confusing.
Meg Perry’s books are always fun. This one, very interestingly, is intentionally unsatisfying in one significant way. It raises a big question: a mystery can be solved, but can justice be served?
Five stars.
The Reviewer
Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave It to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale, and was trained to be a museum curator at the University of Delaware. A curator since 1980, Ulysses has never stopped writing fiction for the sheer pleasure of it. He created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel to Desmond, is his second novel.
Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of over 41 years and their two almost-grown children.
By the way, the name Ulysses was not his parents’ idea of a joke: he is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant, and his mother was the President’s last living great-grandchild. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City.
