Michael Craft, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-312-26917-3
In his fifth gay mystery (after 2000's Name Games) featuring Mark Manning, editor and publisher of the Dumont Daily Register, Craft does a better job than usual of portraying the people of Dumont, Wis., as real and sympathetic human beings. Thad
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Michael Craft, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-28034-5
In a change of pace from his previous five mysteries featuring gay amateur detective Mike Manning (Boy Toy, etc.), Craft introduces a new protagonist, Claire Gray, in what should prove to be a successful series. Claire, a well-known New York theater
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Michael Craft, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-30501-7
Mark Manning, the star of Craft's long-running gay sleuth series (Hot Spot, etc.), and his nephew, Thad, who's performing in one of Claire's plays at Desert Arts College in Palm Springs, Calif., lend a hand in the second whodunit to...
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Michael Craft, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $21.95 (342p) ISBN 978-1-57566-292-3
Obvious and unconvincing, the latest appearance of Chicago journalist Mark Manning (introduced in Flight Dreams, 1997) is less a mystery than a platform for exploring gay sexuality. Manning is skeptical of astrophysicist Pavo Zarnik's announcement...
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Michael Craft, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $22 (304p) ISBN 978-1-57566-419-4
One of crime fiction's smuggest characters, gay journalist Mark Manning, returns (after Eye Contact) in another precious tale. This one concludes with a solution that manages the dubious achievement of being both painfully obvious and singularly...
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Michael Craft, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-24552-8
When the ""king of miniatures,"" Carrol Cantrell, is strangled to death before the opening of a dollhouse craft show in Dumont, Wis., journalist Mark Manning discovers that his sleepy town is packed with suspects in this melodramatic gay cozy. A...
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Michael Craft, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-28900-3
In Michael Craft's sixth solid Mark Manning mystery, Hot Spot, the Dumont, Wis., journalist and his lover, architect Neil Waite, are honored to act as witnesses at the wedding of Roxanne Exner, best friend to them both, and Carl Creighton,...
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Michael Craft, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-32080-5
In Michael Craft's well-crafted Desert Spring: A Claire Gray Mystery, the third in this lighthearted series after 2003's Desert Winter, 54-year-old Broadway director Claire, now the head of the Desert Arts College theater department in Palm ...
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Michael Craft, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (243p) ISBN 978-0-312-30530-7
In Michael Craft's Bitch Slap: A Mark Manning Mystery, the seventh entry in this consistently well-crafted cozy series (after 2002's Hot Spot), Midwest journalist Manning and his lover Neil Waite must once again rush to the aid of a good friend...
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Michael Craft, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-33423-9
Reading Craft's fourth and possibly final Claire Gray mystery (after 2004's Desert Spring) is like attending an enjoyable play in which you already know the ending-satisfying, but no surprises. Claire applies her detecting skills to figuring out who
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Michael Craft, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-312-14438-8
A compendium of the strange, Craft's first book, like the work of the 19th-century journalist Charles Fort, whom Craft credits, attempts not so much to explain the phenomenon of human-alien contact as to find it everywhere. It is all here: UFOs and...
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Michael Craft. Brash, $18.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-954841-16-1
In this enjoyable series launch from Craft (the Claire Gray series), Dante O’Donnell’s gig as a concierge for Sunny Junket, which rents out vacation homes in Palm Springs, Calif., gives him an opportunity to play sleuth after he’s framed for the...
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Michael Craft. Questover, $26.99 (308p) ISBN 979-8-218-13795-3
Craft (Desert Getaway) delivers a breezy second whodunit featuring Palm Springs investigative duo Dante O’Donnell and Jazz Friendly. Dante’s life is looking up: he’s madly in love with his new boyfriend, and as concierge for a vacation rental...
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