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Steve Neil Johnson (1956–2021)

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Werken van Steve Neil Johnson

False Confessions (1993) 59 exemplaren
Final Atonement (1992) 56 exemplaren
The Yellow Canary (2012) 13 exemplaren
The Black Cat (2014) 7 exemplaren
The Blue Parrot (2016) 6 exemplaren
Raising Kane (2011) 5 exemplaren
The Red Raven (2021) 5 exemplaren
This Endless Night (2011) 2 exemplaren

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Johnson, Steve
Ravenford, Rathbone
Geboortedatum
1956-12-14
Overlijdensdatum
2021-12-13
Geslacht
male
Geboorteplaats
Seattle, Washington, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Los Angeles, California, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden
complications from non–small cell lung cancer

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You know you are in the hands of a master writer when he can combine suspense with the sharp detail of time and place along with characters that jump off the page. The paranoia of AIDS coupled with rampant homophobia takes the reader back to the Los Angeles of the eighties when it was acceptable for a police detective to chortle, “Let the faggot soak little longer.”
For those us who lived through the eighties the reference to watching The Golden Girls on Saturday night is one of the rare fond memories of the plague years.
There is a stunning monologue that talks about life before the AIDS pandemic in the hey-day of the 1970’s that moved me to tears. “All those sissy kids who were laughed and snickered at and told they were ugly and scrawny and had to hide from their tormentors after school had transformed into swans with gym-bought muscles.”
Throughout the novel Steve Neil Johnson’s spot-on descriptions like “an archway of gnarling deep-red bougainvillea and steep terra cotta steps” make for glorious vivid reading.
The author elegantly weaves the politics of AIDS, tense procedural plotting, believable mystery twists and an unrequited romance that will flood your eyes.
This excellent book is the fourth in the series but it is so clearly written that it can easily stand alone as a literary stunner.
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GordonPrescottWiener | Aug 24, 2023 |
Second and last installment of the Doug Orlando mystery series. A catholic priest is found bludgeoned to death in his church and it's up to Orlando to figure out the crime. Numerous twists and turns to find out who did it and the other mystery of the serial killer of gay men.
 
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ChrisWeir | Apr 2, 2023 |
A rabbi is killed with his orayer shawl. Detective Orlando must unravel the truth if the situation. Was it the brother out for revenge after the rabbit was selling priceless religious artifacts. The real estate magnet who was secretly buying up Williamsburg property. A disgruntled former employee. Or just a robbery gone bad?
 
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ChrisWeir | 2 andere besprekingen | Feb 28, 2022 |
This book is all about hate. Everyone in this book is full of hate except the protagonist and his lover (well, maybe not his mom). I like what he's doing, and the book is well written and tight, but it's hard to take. It's pretty extreme.

There is a lot of really interesting information about conservative Judaism, stuff I didn't know despite my degree. Very cool.

One part that bothered me: I don't think people would be quite as tolerant of a cop who was indicted for shooting a suspect in the back. I think hat happened to the MC makes sense but I think both would be ostracized, at the very least because other cops wouldn't want to be associated with someone like that.

This is not a romance, and no sex, not even explicit references, just a couple of places where he touches his lover's thigh to initiate something. But their relationship is beautiful and the one really nice thing in the book.

The fact he did it a second time, would not make him a hero. Even the asshole chief would balk.

Good mystery, recommended for anyone who likes mysteries and is comfortable with a gay protagonist.
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maybedog | 2 andere besprekingen | Apr 5, 2013 |

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8
Leden
153
Populariteit
#136,480
Waardering
4.1
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5
ISBNs
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