Tongue Tied

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Donald Strachey Mystery Book 8</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - </span><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Under normal circumstances PI Donald Strachey wouldn't take a job from right-wing radio shock jock J-Bird - the man's hate-filled homophobic rants offend Strachey deeply. And not just Strachey: listeners include people identifying as members of a long-defunct gay rights activists the Forces of Free Faggotry. Though peaceful the group was originally known for rescuing young men from enforced conversion therapy. When J-Bird's potty-mouthed sidekick is kidnapped and the FFF claim credit Strachey becomes involved.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>Leads take Strachey to a Berkshire Wooley Llama Cheese farm Brooklyn late night New York and Long Island as he finds himself partnered with a not-out gay cop he'd tangled with in the cop's Albany days and a shy but talented housebreaking Amish gay man. When J-Bird himself is kidnapped the stakes are raised as the first body parts arrive as a warning ... </span></p><p></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 across upstate New York Washington and elsewhere. An author's note is included.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Don't we all entertain fantasies about what we'd like to do to those toxic shock jocks who foul the airwaves with their hate-filled rants? Donald Strachey the fastidious gay sleuth in Richard Stevenson's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tongue Tied</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and several previous books in this sophisticated series is above all that. But as a favor to a friend in the New York Police Department this Albany private eye lends a hand when Jay Plankton a radio talk show host appositely named for a primitive life-form is plagued by threats from a long-dormant gay-activist group that appears to have resurfaced as a gang of crypto-terrorists. Once the alphabetized threats turn nasty Stevenson smoothly engineers the action into a smartly entertaining investigation that also makes a serious point about the uneasy lives of gay cops: 'The out cops get beat up on and the non-out cops beat up on themselves.' - </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>New York Times</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Richard Stevenson's mysteries are among the wittiest and most politically pointed around today. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Washington Post</em></p>