Murder on Vancouver Island

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The peace of a frosty morning is shattered when a man finds a colleague's battered body. Inspector William Gibson of the Vancouver Island police investigates...</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The victim is found by a maintenance worker on the university campus. Despite being brutally murdered there is a little other evidence; just a </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>blood-spattered baseball bat</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and a condom placed under the body.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When the police discover that the victim Robbie Spencer was a closet homosexual </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Inspector Gibson becomes convinced it was a hate crime</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>However co-workers are apparently nonplussed by the events </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>regarding the investigating officers with suspicion and disdain</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Is the perpetrator one of them?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Gibson concentrates on a party held at the university the night before one that he in fact attended. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A fight had broken out</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> between the guests. Can the two events be linked?</span></p>