Another Dead Teenager
A Paul Turner Mystery
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
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, something that could threaten the lives of the people he holds most dear.
Booklist gives Another Dead Teenager a rave review: "As in Zubro's previous books, readers have both campy humor and an action filled plot to keep them entertained. Highly recommended--this one's a good read in every sense of the term!"
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Like the mystery it tracks, Zubro's latest Paul Turner opus (after Political Poison) is a decidedly mixed bag. When the teenage sons of two prominent Chicago families are murdered, gay CPD detective Turner and his longtime (straight) partner, Buck Fenwick, are under pressure to solve the case pronto. Their solution, however, proves both obvious and disappointing and features an excess of red herrings and a heavy dose of copspeak (``You always looked not only at what the suspects did do, but at what they didn't do''). Zubro undermines his setting's authenticity by inventing the North Shore suburb of Kenitkamette--as if Kenilworth, Winnetka and Wilmette had merged. But there's also good news. Both in the station house and on Turner's home front, the personal notes ring refreshingly true to life. Fenwick's good-natured teasing about his partner's sexual orientation; Turner's relationships with his two sons and new boyfriend; and the wonderfully stubborn Rose Talucci, the Turner family's next-door earth mother, all make Zubro's offering something zippier than Another Limp Mystery.
