Come see mystery authors Anthony Bidulka, Neil Plakcy, Chuck Zito and Mark Richard Zubro

6:00 PM Thursday September 6
The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th Street, New York

7:00 PM Friday September 7
Calamus Bookstore, 92B South Street, Boston

Four of the best practioners of the gay mystery genre join forces to talk about their new books, their handsome, sexy heroes, and the future of the gay mystery.

Anthony Bidulka’s four-book series about Saskatchewan private eye Russell Quant has garnered a Lambda Literary Award, renown among Canadian mysteries, and critical acclaim. STAIN OF THE BERRY takes Russell on a professional and personal journey to the reaches of the far north as he discovers why members of a gay and lesbian choir are dying.

MAHU SURFER, Neil Plakcy’s second mystery novel, sends openly gay Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka back to his surfing past. Rather than announce Kimo’s public return to the HPD after the events of MAHU, his new boss asks the former competitive surfer to go undercover on Oahu’s North Shore to find the killer of three young surfers.

Chuck Zito’s amateur sleuth, Nicky D’Amico, is a theatrical stage manager, and the two books that feature him have received applause from reviewers and readers alike. In ICE IN HIS VEINS, Nicky’s trying to figure out who’s killing the actors in an all-male production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

HOOK, LINE AND HOMICIDE is Mark Richard Zubro’s twentieth mystery novel and the ninth in a series following Chicago homicide detective Paul Turner. Mixing humor and social concerns, Zubro also has written eleven books about amateur sleuths Tom Mason (a high school teacher) and Scott Carpenter, a professional baseball player.