Love You To Death (Stonewall Inn Mysteries)
"The seafood was beginning to look a little tired," notes partygoing hairdresser Stan Kraychik, narrator of the second gay mystery by the author of A Body to Dye For : the seafood, unfortunately, has company. Michaels's unimaginative plotting is none too peppy, and what passes for smart banter is neither. When someone trifles with the truffles at a tony reception for Godiva wannabe Le Jardin Chocolatier, death breaks up the party. Typical of the author's fondness for overclarification, the character serving the goodies "was extra careful about who got which plate." Additionally, tepid sexual innuendos show up, as if on cue, on practically every other page: Vannos (Stan's nom de coiffure ) burns his mouth on too-hot coffee, "unlike the last man I dated--six months ago." Two more characters bite the dust before the culprit obligingly commits suicide, by which time readers may be stifling yawns. A minor subplot involving Stan's stint as baby-sitter for a precocious four-year-old is not only pointless but offensive. Even the chapter titles here are recycled, from "Cherchez La Femme" to the punny "Down the Gardner Path."Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.