By Christopher Rice
Adam Murphy, a twenty-five-year-old journalist, is chasing a career-making tale of a serial killer preying on younger homosexual males in West Hollywood whilst he's all at once fired via the journal that employs him. He quickly learns his former lover has disappeared, yet what he is approximately to discover is much extra diabolical than he may well ever have imagined. mild earlier than Day is a riveting and intricate secret set opposed to the gothic panorama that Rice has made his own.
With a expertise for developing suspense-tinged fiction that's "chillingly perverse" (USA this present day) and "vivid and extreme" (The Boston Globe), Christopher Rice provides a depressing mystery of revenge and sexual obsession.
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In the tiny bathroom, I found three bottles of Viagra in the medicine cabinet. Crystal meth lights a fire under some men's sex drives, but it also turns their equipment to mush. But there was also a bottle of Xanax, just as I had expected there would be. Two-milligram pills. The good stuff. I dumped several into my palm and asked Nate if he could swallow without water. He just stared at his laundry. In the kitchen I opened the cabinets and discovered that Nate had smashed through the back of them with a hammer, pulled coils of wiring through, and taped the individual strands to the shelves in a pattern that made sense only to him.
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The April day when Rod called to tell me that Paul Martinez's body had been discovered that morning by a cleaning crew up at a gay bathhouse in Hollywood, I was planning to take my Jeep into the car wash. Three days later, after I walked out of his funeral in a righteous rage, I decided to pick up where I had left off. By the time I pulled into the Twin Palms Car Wash on Sunset Boulevard, I had managed to lighten my limbs and put the world in soft focus, thanks to the nickel-plated flask my mother had given me for Christmas.