TRIBE **EDGAR AWARD FINALIST**

Zimmerman, R.D.

ISBN 10: 0440218705 / ISBN 13: 9780440218708

Published by Bantam Books, NY, 1996

About this Item

First edition, August 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Reading crease, a few light scratches at rear, top corner creased else very good-near fine copy. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Paperback. "The crisp Minneapolis winter is the stage for the unraveling of old secrets in this latest Todd Mills mystery. Trying to move on with his life after the murder of his lover, Michael, Mills, a respected journalist, is taken by surprise when college sexual encounters reemerge to disrupt both his life and that of his best friend, lesbian attorney Janice Gray. Janice, it turns out, had a son either by Todd or by another classmate, who also had an affair with Todd. Now that son, Zeb, appears, desperate to protect his own baby daughter from the religious cult of his adoptive father. The plot unfolds swiftly and efficiently, and the characters have widely diverse but always believable motives. But what makes this mystery stand out goes deeper than narrative and characterization. The importance of loving friendships and the implications of homophobia and self-loathing (really internalized homophobia) lie at the heart of this multifaceted story." -- Publishers Weekly.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TRIBE **EDGAR AWARD FINALIST**
• Publisher: Bantam Books, NY
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0440218705
• ISBN 13: 9780440218708
• Binding: Pictorial Wrappers
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good-Near Fine
• Book Type: Award Winner
• Seller catalogs:
  • Minneapolis
  • Gay
  • Mystery and Detective

About this title

Synopsis

All he remembered was the furtive encounter, the terror of discovery, the burning cigarette. . . and the voyeur on the fire escape plummeting to his death.  For twenty years, Todd Mills was safe, closeted, building his career as a two-time Emmy Award-winning TV reporter.  He had it all--until his double life became front-page news.  Since his lover's murder, Todd hadn't worked.  It was the first pause in his professional life.

Now he's out, warily beginning a romance with police detective Steve Rawlins, when an old friend, an ex-girlfriend, calls for help.  The son she gave up for adoption years before has found her--and left his baby.  Now she and the baby are being stalked by a cult of zealots who will stop at nothing to reclaim the child.  But as Todd steps into the firing range of The Congregation, he's forced to face the nightmare of his own buried past, as murderous secrets return to kill again. . . .


From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author

R.D. Zimmerman is the author of eleven novels, including two other Todd Mills mysteries: Closet, which won the 1996 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's Mystery, and Hostage.  He is also the author of Deadfall in Berlin, which was nominated for the 1991 Edgar Award for Best Novel, Death Trance, Blood Trance, and Red Trance.  Raised in Chicago, he now resides in Minneapolis.


From the Trade Paperback edition.