File Under Dead

Mark Richard Zubro, Richard Mark Zubro. Minotaur Books, $23.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-312-28097-0

Soon after Tom Mason starts volunteering at the Oscar Wilde Gay Youth Services Clinic, the Chicago high school teacher discovers the severed head of the clinic's nasty executive director in a file drawer. File Under Dead: A Tom & Scott Mystery, the 10th in the series (after 2002's Here Comes the Corpse) by Lambda Literary Award-winner Mark Richard Zubro, offers some insights into the plight of gay teenagers as well as an engaging whodunit. .

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