Description
Shade is a classic murder mystery.
Its protagonist is a young, gay Harvard faculty member striving to find his footing in the Ivy League in the face of the publish-or-perish standards of academia, the strictures of life in exclusive enclaves in Boston and Kennebunkport, and the gay subculture along the New England coast circa 1985.
Here Professor Marcus George, already beset by the tense, competitive world of Ivy League politics, is drawn into investigating the murder of one of his former students, the son of an elite Massachusetts family. As he investigates the murder, Marcus stumbles across academic and financial corruption that could ruin several lives—even as he falls into a tender and heartwarming love affair that will change his own.
Shade is a beautifully realized, gripping tale in the classic style of an endlessly surprising, twist-and-turn murder mystery. Imagine a book like Dorothy L. Sayers’s Gaudy Night set in Harvard Yard, Boston’s elite Louisburg Square, and Miller’s Cove, a fictional Maine coastal resort reminiscent of the famous Ogunquit.
