Shock to the System

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Donald Strachey Mystery Book 5</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - </span><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>Donald Strachey is asked to investigate the suspicious death of Paul Haig by three different people-Haig's homophobic mother his ex-lover and the psychiatrist hired to cure him of his homosexuality. Just as he gets started however all three remove him from the case leaving Strachey with a brutal murderer that now everyone wants left alone.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Written over a period of three decades the Donald Strachey series authentically chronicles gay life as it unfolded in upstate New York. </span><em>Shock to the System</em> was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery. <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An author's note is included.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>���</span>Stevenson's real coup in <em>Shock to the System</em> is his memorably varied cast of suspects. - <em>Kirkus Reviews</em></p><p><br></p><p>Sassy and sexy ... Don Strachey is a private dick who really earns his title. - Armistead Maupin</p><p><br></p><p>Stevenson writes wittily and knowingly about his subjects both the gay world and the world of politics and draws telling portraits of the bitter clever amusing men who inhabit both. - <em>West Coast Review of Books</em></p>