Happy never after? Murder crashes the wedding in the ninth Tom & Scott Mystery from the Lambda Literary Award–winning author of One Dead Drag Queen.Chicago area high school teacher Tom Mason and his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, have had a taxing year. After publicly coming out, Scott and Tom have had to deal with a firestorm of publicity, a major loss of privacy, a great outpouring of support and an equal number of cranks. Now, final...

Simple Suburban Murder is the book that started it all--the debut novel of Lambda Literary Award winner Mark Richard Zubro.When a gay high school teacher starts investigating a colleague's murder, he finds beneath the calm veneer of his Midwestern suburb a seamy underbelly of gambling, prostitution, and child abuse.

From a Lambda Literary Award–winning author, a murder mystery "offers some insights into the plight of gay teenagers as well as an engaging whodunit" ( Publishers Weekly).Chicago high school teacher Tom Mason is guilted into volunteering a few hours a week at a local gay services clinic. Since he finds the bitter in-fighting at the organization to be intolerable, and the head of the clinic to be downright poisonous, Tom does his hours on early Saturday morn...

Publishers Weekly calls Mark Richard Zubro's Sorry Now: A Paul Turner Mystery? "compelling and even urgent."While in Chicago, right-wing televangelist Bruce Mucklewrath is attacked and his daughter killed. Sensing a potential time bomb, and with Mucklewrath creating great pressure, the police brass assign the case to Detective Paul Turner whom they trust with sensitive matters. During their investigation, Turner and his partner discover that other ...

"Combining murder and microchips, rapid-fire patter zings across the pages in this latest Turner mystery, which showcases Zubro at the top of his form." — BooklistLambda Award-Winning AuthorCraig Lenzati, the rich and powerful CEO of Chicago's answer to Microsoft, is found brutally murdered with stab wounds all over his body. The murder is reported anonymously, and a quick and quiet resolution to the case is demand...

Professional baseball player Scott Carpenter and schoolteacher Tom Mason are targeted by hate in this gripping LGBTQ+ mystery.Lambda Award-Winning AuthorA series of three bombs destroy a local health clinic, killing many and injuring many others including high school teacher and clinic volunteer Tom Mason. While Tom is hospitalized, his lover, Chicago superstar pitcher Scott Carpenter, begins to believe that Tom may have been the intended v...

Since when are vacations ever relaxing? All Chicago police Detective Paul Turner is hoping for on his annual retreat from the city and his job is a little peace and quiet. This time he's headed to the Canadian Great North Woods for a couple of weeks with family and friends -- his two teenaged sons, his lover Ben, neighborhood pals, and his long-term police partner, Detective Buck Fenwick, along with his wife.But hopes of tranquility are soon crushed when Turner intervenes in a scuff...

A teacher and his pro-athlete lover must solve a friend's murder to clear their names in this exciting mystery by the Lamba Literary Award–winning author."Readers have both campy humor and an action-filled plot to keep them entertained. Highly recommended for all fiction collections—this one's a good read in every sense of the term!" — BooklistTom Mason and his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, g...

When male supermodel Cullom Furyk plummets to his death from the top of a major downtown hotel, gay Chicago Police Detective Paul Turner and his partner, Detective Buck Fenwick, are called to find out what actually happened. One witness claims that Furyk was pushed to his death, and someone involved in Furyk's tumultuous personal or professional life may have played a role in the mysterious incident. Will Turner and Fenwick be able to determine the killer before someone gets away with murd...

Tom Mason, former Chicago area high school teacher, recently made a public splash by marrying his long-term lover, former professional baseball player Scott Carpenter. After the hoopla surrounding Scott's public coming out and, of course, the marriage, the couple are in dire need of a quiet vacation -- somewhere far from the fans, the paparazzi and the general noise of Chicago.Escaping to the privately-held Aegean island of Korkasi -- a resort with twenty-two seperate villas for tho...

"Chicago's finest—finest gay detective, that is—is back . . . nonstop action and complex plot . . . the year's best gay mystery to date." — BooklistLambda Award-Winning AuthorThe last thing that Chicago Police Detective Paul Turner wants to do on New Year's Day is investigate a murder. But when the body is that of a conservative, homophobic judge and it is found outside a popular gay nightclub, the task takes on a ...

When two suburban high-school students are found murdered--both boys who were well respected and liked, with solid family lives and no apparent enemies--Detected Paul Turner is assigned the case. However as a gay father with two teenage sons and a new lover in his life, Paul Turner has trouble bringing his full attention to bear on the case. But as details slowly emergy, he begins to suspect that he is investigating something more deadly and horrifying than a pair of senseless killings, so...