Hot Rocks

<p><strong>A Nick Hoffman / Academic Mystery Book 7</strong> -<span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>Fitness = Death when Nick Hoffman heads back to the gym right after a vacation finding himself caught in a </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>Desperate Housewives</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>-type mystery. Michigan Muscle is a state-of-the-art health club adjacent to the State University of Michigan. Boasting luxurious facilities the latest equipment and topnotch personal trainers it's a palatial complex for fitness. But every palace has its intrigue and when Nick stumbles across a dead trainer he's drawn into a web of passion and privilege unlike anything he's ever experienced before. The prime suspect because he's the one who discovered the body Nick has to work this mystery out to its bitter end.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>In this seventh novel in the series Lev Raphael Lambda Award winner takes us on another voyage with one of the mystery world's funniest - and best-read - amateur sleuths. Included in this new edition a foreword by R E Bradshaw (</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>Rainey Bell Thriller</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(24 24 24 1)> series).</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Raphael's latest smoothly delivers a satisfying mystery while providing insight into the middle-aging of America gay marriage the excitement of sleuthing as a means of exercising control over our lives the 'Orwellian' Patriot Act and more. - </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Booklist</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)></span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hot Rocks</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a comic mystery of bad manners written with the suspenseful touch of Alfred Hitchcock bred to the epigrammatic wit of Oscar Wilde. The hero of the tale assistant professor Nick Hoffman is among the most lovably erudite characters in all of mystery fiction. - Robert Eversz </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Zero to the Bone</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If you like your mysteries smart witty and steaming with suspense you won't find a better read than Lev Raphael's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hot Rocks</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. The new spa in town is proving hazardous to Nick's health and it's great to be back at his side while he sleuths in the sauna. Lev's turned up the heat in one of my favorite series in crime fiction. - Linda Fairstein </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Bad Blood</em></p>