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Donald Strachey #15
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KickAssQueer is a gay Web site thousands go to for news, gossip, and as a forum to exchange often heated opinions about GLBT life in America.When one of KAQ's editors is savagely murdered, it's PI Don Strachey's job to uncover whether one of the site's many harsh critics, gay or straight, is responsible for this young man's death---and possibly for other brutal assaults on gay men in and around New York City.What Strachey is soon forced to confront is a side of the Internet that is not just disturbing, but sometimes downright lethal.
- GenresMysteryLGBTM M Romance
180 pages, ebook
Published December 30, 2016
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Richard Stevenson
82 books143 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
Richard Stevenson is the pseudonym of Richard Lipez, the author of nine books, including the Don Strachey private eye series. The Strachey books are being filmed by here!, the first gay television network. Lipez also co-wrote Grand Scam with Peter Stein, and contributed to Crimes of the Scene: A Mystery Novel Guide for the International Traveler. He is a mystery columnist for The Washington Post and a former editorial writer at The Berkshire Eagle. His reporting, reviews and fiction have appeared in The Boston Globe, Newsday, The Progressive, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and many other publications. He grew up and went to college in Pennsylvania and served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 1962-64. Lipez lives in Becket, Massachusetts and is married to sculptor Joe Wheaton.
Richard Stevenson is the pseudonym of Richard Lipez, the author of nine books, including the Don Strachey private eye series. The Strachey books are being filmed by here!, the first gay television network. Lipez also co-wrote Grand Scam with Peter Stein, and contributed to Crimes of the Scene: A Mystery Novel Guide for the International Traveler. He is a mystery columnist for The Washington Post and a former editorial writer at The Berkshire Eagle. His reporting, reviews and fiction have appeared in The Boston Globe, Newsday, The Progressive, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and many other publications. He grew up and went to college in Pennsylvania and served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 1962-64. Lipez lives in Becket, Massachusetts and is married to sculptor Joe Wheaton.
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December 10, 2020
One thing I always appreciate about these books: they're unpredictable. Don's asked to find out who gay bashed an editor of a borderline sleazy online gay rag and it does not go as expected. Or maybe it does. Don's actually onto some leads early on, but I won't say if they pan out or not. I'm not sure how I feel about the but I do like how all the strings - so to speak - were tied together by the end. It was ... suspenseful. ;) LOL
Not much Timmy in this one, but when he is on page, he makes it count. How he hasn't had any Don-related ulcers by this point is a miracle, I tell ya. You'd think getting older - or "older" since these guys should be in their 90s by now but are still running around like they're in their 40s or early 50s - would slow Don down, but nope. He's just getting more and more rascally, not less, it seems. Not that I'd want him any other way. Well, 🙈
Not much Timmy in this one, but when he is on page, he makes it count. How he hasn't had any Don-related ulcers by this point is a miracle, I tell ya. You'd think getting older - or "older" since these guys should be in their 90s by now but are still running around like they're in their 40s or early 50s - would slow Don down, but nope. He's just getting more and more rascally, not less, it seems. Not that I'd want him any other way. Well, 🙈
May 28, 2017
The funniest thing about this book is that in my review of the last book in the series, I wrote about how nice it was that Don doesn't use technology. A major part of this entry is about Don using new tech methods to track and find suspects and the evils that come with advances like them.
Other than that, this felt mostly like a modern take on Third Man Out. Both are about a gay "news" source publishing personal information and the enemies that makes them, but this one is a website rather than a magazine. It's always nice to spend time with Don (though Timmy was sadly absent except for 2 scenes with Don and a few phone calls) and with Stevenson's writing. He still manages laugh-out-loud phrases, but the plot here wasn't as involving as other recent entries have been (and it didn't have as much to say about gay culture either).
But I hope Richard Stevenson continues cranking out Strachey novels for as long as he's physically able. Even the less exciting entries are engrossing, fun and witty.
Other than that, this felt mostly like a modern take on Third Man Out. Both are about a gay "news" source publishing personal information and the enemies that makes them, but this one is a website rather than a magazine. It's always nice to spend time with Don (though Timmy was sadly absent except for 2 scenes with Don and a few phone calls) and with Stevenson's writing. He still manages laugh-out-loud phrases, but the plot here wasn't as involving as other recent entries have been (and it didn't have as much to say about gay culture either).
But I hope Richard Stevenson continues cranking out Strachey novels for as long as he's physically able. Even the less exciting entries are engrossing, fun and witty.
January 16, 2017
A nice visit with Don (wish Timmy had been there more). The mystery was better than some. A few cringe-y bits, but nothing that kept me from liking the book as a whole.
The best part was clearly how this was the inverse of Ice Blues: it's summer. And hot. And you will hear about the state of the cooling systems in every single place Don goes for the entire book. It's kind of awesome.
Also, cranky!Don on iPhones. Heh.
The best part was clearly how this was the inverse of Ice Blues: it's summer. And hot. And you will hear about the state of the cooling systems in every single place Don goes for the entire book. It's kind of awesome.
Also, cranky!Don on iPhones. Heh.
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