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During his distinguished career as a journalist, Mark Manning has seen it all--riots, murder, political corruption, and every manifestation of the dark heart of the human species. But even his proven emotional resources will be stretched when the home he shares with his lover, architect Neil Waite, and his ward and nephew, Thad Quatrain, becomes the site of one of the most daunting, taxing, and potentially dangerous of all human rituals--a wedding. Roxanne Exner, best friend to both Mark and show more Neil, is having her nuptial ceremony at their house in the normally bucolic Dumont, Wisconsin, partly because Carl Creighton, her husband to be, is in the final weeks of his campaign for lieutenant governor of Illinois. For Roxanne, Dumont will afford some needed distance from the campaign, and for the city of Dumont, it will be the social event of the season. The wedding, despite everyone's fears, comes off with nary a hitch. The reception, however, takes a disastrous turn when a local matron, who happens to be a major donor to the campaign of Creighton's rival, is killed in what appears to be a freak electrical mishap. Authorities soon discover that the electrocution was no accident. Then another shocker--Roxanne herself becomes the prime suspect. If Roxanne is ever to enjoy her honeymoon, and if Carl and his running mate are to stand a chance of election, Mark finds himself in a race against the clock to solve a most perplexing murder. show lessTags
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This is a good one! Even though I got a hunch of whodunnit, there were just so many truly likely candidates that it was still a race to finish. I really like that the series has a lot more than mystery to it - family, friends, work, all those issues that everyone deals with. And, of course, I would love to own that Montblanc pen of Mark's... :)
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Good LGBT fiction for LGBT folk and friends
537 works; 54 members
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Michael Craft is the author of eleven published novels. The previous three installments of his Mark Manning mystery series -- Name Games, Boy Toy, and Hot Spot -- were honored as national finalists for Lambda Literary Awards. Craft and his partner reside in Wisconsin, which is the setting for the Mark Manning novels. They have a second home in the show more Palm Springs area of California, which provides the backdrop for Craft's other series, featuring theater director Claire Gray show less
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- Canonical title
- Hot Spot
- People/Characters
- Mark Manning; Neil Waite; Doug Pierce
- Important places
- Wisconsin, USA
- Dedication
- Mon huitième roman, c'est aussi pour Léon.
- First words
- Our friend Roxanne has never been the sort of woman who dreamed of a big church wedding, one with all the trimmings.
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- English
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