When two suburban high-school students are found murdered--both boys who were well respected and liked, with solid family lives and no apparent enemies--Detected Paul Turner is assigned the case. However as a gay father with two teenage sons and a new lover in his life, Paul Turner has trouble bringing his full attention to bear on the case. But as details slowly emergy, he begins to suspect that he is investigating something more deadly and horrifying than a pair of senseless killings, something that could threaten the lives of the people he holds most dear.
Booklist gives Another Dead Teenager a rave review: "As in Zubro's previous books, readers have both campy humor and an action filled plot to keep them entertained. Highly recommended--this one's a good read in every sense of the term!"
From Publishers Weekly
Like the mystery it tracks, Zubro's latest Paul Turner opus (after Political Poison) is a decidedly mixed bag. When the teenage sons of two prominent Chicago families are murdered, gay CPD detective Turner and his longtime (straight) partner, Buck Fenwick, are under pressure to solve the case pronto. Their solution, however, proves both obvious and disappointing and features an excess of red herrings and a heavy dose of copspeak ("You always looked not only at what the suspects did do, but at what they didn't do"). Zubro undermines his setting's authenticity by inventing the North Shore suburb of Kenitkamette?as if Kenilworth, Winnetka and Wilmette had merged. But there's also good news. Both in the station house and on Turner's home front, the personal notes ring refreshingly true to life. Fenwick's good-natured teasing about his partner's sexual orientation; Turner's relationships with his two sons and new boyfriend; and the wonderfully stubborn Rose Talucci, the Turner family's next-door earth mother, all make Zubro's offering something zippier than Another Limp Mystery.
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From Booklist
Zubro's style and pacing keep getting better. Consequently, his third mystery featuring Chicago police detective Paul Turner is the best yet. This time, openly gay Turner (who, interestingly, has two sons, one of them with spina bifida) and his straight partner, Buck Fenwick, are on the trail of a serial killer who brutally murders high-school athletes. (Part of Zubro's charm is how naturally he works the unexpected into his mysteries; in addition to Turner's gayness, which Zubro fits into the story without it intruding upon the plot, here he has a female suburban police chief.) When Turner and Fenwick close in on the killer, the killer goes after Turner's elder son and then his lover. The third Turner is a real treat for both fans of detective stories and fans of gay fiction. Charles Harmon
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