Fred Hunter, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-312-27117-6
It's hard to imagine readers of any persuasion—gay, straight or lovers of mysteries—getting much pleasure from Hunter's fifth book (after 2000's National Nancys) about freelance designer and occasional CIA helper Alex...
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Fred Hunter, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-27123-7
Murder, mummies and shady real estate dealings haunt this solid entry in Hunter's Ransom series (after 2000's Ransom at the Opera). Real estate baron and Chilean expatriate Louie Dolores brings an exhibit of ancient Chinchorro mummies to his
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Fred Hunter, Author Walker & Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3245-3
Meet Jeremy Ransom, a veteran homicide detective in Chicago who considers most of his partners ``twits'' and is currently rereading Dickens, a chapter or two of Bleak House while soaking in the tub at the end of the day. He sounds unlikely but is,...
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Fred Hunter, Author Walker & Company $19.95 (237p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3253-8
The second Jeremy Ransom/Emily Charters mystery (after Presence of Mind) opens with a stunning blonde entering Chicago detective Ransom's office, ``framed in the doorway looking as if she had just stepped out of a novel by Dashiell Hammett.''...
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Fred Hunter, Author Walker & Company $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3284-2
Once again, the strong relationship between the rootless Chicago detective Jeremy Ransom and the caring and wise Emily Charters adds bounce to Hunter's procedural pace. The duo's third outing (following Ransom for an Angel) finds Ransom tracking the
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Fred Hunter, Author Stonewall Inn Editions $12.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-26301-0
When Alex Reynolds and lover Peter Livesay volunteer to help liberal Democrat Charlie Clarke run for the U.S. Senate, investigating murder soon takes priority over stuffing envelopes in this witty gay political caper, the author's fourth (after...
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Fred Hunter, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-30066-1
Emily Charters and her detective pal, Jeremy Ransom, have their seniors' Great Lakes cruise aboard the Genessee rudely interrupted by murder in Fred Hunter's Ransom at Sea: A Ransom/Charters Mystery, the ninth entry in this reliable semi-cozy...
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Fred Hunter, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-19323-2
In the detecting team of Chicago cop Jeremy Ransom and Emily Charters, Jeremy's elderly and beloved friend, there exists an unlikely yet beguiling pairing of the young and the not so young, the streetwise and the sweetly intuitive. Charters's razor-s
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Fred Hunter, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-16976-3
A two-year-old murder interrupts a Christmas vacation in the fourth outing (following Ransom for an Angel) of one of the more improbable of current-day sleuthing partnerships. Chicago homicide detective Jeremy Ransom is somewhat prissy and fond of...
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Fred Hunter, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-20463-1
Chicago-based narrator Alex Reynolds, the self-proclaimed ""queer-in-residence at the CIA,"" and his ""husband,"" Peter Livesay, have been close friends and neighbors of Mason LaPere and his lover, Ryan Morton, for years. Despite the long-standing...
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Fred Hunter, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (258p) ISBN 978-0-312-26257-0
Opera fans will welcome this seventh book in Hunter's witty series featuring police detective Jeremy Ransom and sidekick Emily Charters (Ransom Unpaid, etc.), set on opening night at Chicago's brand-new Sheridan Center for the Performing Arts....
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