The Tangled Boy

Caro Soles. Baskerville Books, $14.95 (252pp) ISBN 978-0-9686776-5-0

Teenager Cory Williams is the only witness to the murder of wealthy libertine Jordan King as if he didn't have enough trouble with his plummeting grades, angry parents, taunting schoolmates and his secret desire for other boys. The hero of Caro Soles's (The Abulon Dance) textured, psychologically astute debut mystery, The Tangled Boy, Williams begins receiving anonymous death threats and, even worse, threats to reveal his entanglements with Jordan King.

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