Not only was this a good mystery/family drama, it was not a typical LGBT romance novel. In fact, I would barely classify it as a romance. Instead, it felt a lot more like a whodunnit that focused on how relationships and attachments change and form. The protagonist is gay and falls for a guy during the book, but it always takes a back burner to the plot about how a family deals with adversity and struggles to solve a decades old crime that smeared their standing in the community. The brothers feel real in their actions of fighting, picking on each other, hiding things, and exploring different paths in life to cope with tragedy. The murder mystery is fairly standard, but is explored through many viewpoints, and the reader sees how the deaths of three boys impact a small community over the course of 40 years. The protagonist Don is a bit too smart to be credible in some areas though. He is smart enough to be able to skip several grades, but also nearly single handedly solves a 40 year old mystery, is valedictorian, gets a full ride to Harvard, avoids much of the fallout of the AIDS crisis in the 80s, and jumps in early with Yahoo, Google, Facebook and Twitter. I understand the character is smart, but this seems omniscient. Overall though, this was a great read.