Shadow Puppet

A Dan Sharp Mystery

by Jeffrey Round

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Pub Date Feb 26 2019 | Archive Date Oct 31 2018

Dundurn | Dundurn Press

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

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Description

Private investigator Dan Sharp investigates the disappearance of three closeted gay men.

When a serial killer stalks downtown Toronto, private investigator Dan Sharp finds an unexpected link between the missing men that even the police are reluctant to investigate. A meeting with the chief of police confirms his suspicions, but does nothing to resolve the problem. Obsessed with uncovering the truth, Dan enlists a small group of friends to delve into illicit goings-on in the local sex industry. It’s only when the next man disappears, however, that Dan finds himself in a race against time to track down an elusive, manipulative killer who is a master of disguise.

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A Note From the Publisher

- Book six in Jeffrey Round’s hit Dan Sharp series about a gay missing-persons investigator
- Book one, Lake on the Mountain, won the 2013 LAMBDA Literary Award for Gay Mystery, and book four, After the Horses, was nominated in the same category in 2016
- Sharp is the father of a teenage son who is becoming aware of his father’s dangerous job
- Publishers Weekly, Quill & Quire, Xtra!, and the Hamilton Spectator have praised the series, and it is listed on Backlot’s Top 100 Gay Books

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Advance Praise

Lambda Award-winning writer Jeffrey Round should be a household name not just in households that value gay detective fiction, but outside them as well. I, who am not a connoisseur of or an inveterate fan of detective fiction, don’t read Round merely for his tricks of suspense. I value him for his true literary motive: an exploration of human relationships within the circumscription of milieu, circumstance, and character — in other words, the exigencies of our lives, especially of gay lives, that (as Edmund White puts it) express the introspective advantages of the “outsider, of the foreigner and of the pioneer.’— Keith Garebian, award-winning author of William Hutt: Soldier Actor

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