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A Simple Suburban Murder (Tom & Scott, Bk 1)
A Simple Suburban Murder - Tom & Scott, Bk 1 Author:Mark Richard Zubro A gay midwestern high-school teacher investigates a colleague's murder -- and uncovers the sleazy flip side (child abuse, gambling, adultery, prostitution, snuff movies) to conventional Middle American suburbia. — Arriving at school early one morning, narrator-hero Tom Mason finds the corpse, head caved in, of math teacher Jim Evans. The obvious ... more »suspect? Jim's gay teen-age son Phil (Tom's former student), who has disappeared. But Tom isn't so sure -- especially once he learns that "regular guy" Jim was not only a child-abuser but also a seducer & blackmailer of girl students, a pimp, and a computer-age bookie.
Along with with lover Scott (a pro-baseball star), Tom plays sleuth while searching for runaway teen-ager Phil through Chicago's gay-bar/hustling subculture (including the sadomasochistic orgy scene).« less