When UC San Diego professor Marcus George discovers a colleague’s body in his office, he immediately falls under suspicion. But his partner of nearly twenty years, defense attorney Bob Abramson, faces his own personal grief, leading the couple to navigate love, loyalty, and resilience under pressure.

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“In most mysteries, the tension revolves around the central question: whodunnit? In H.N. Hirsch’s latest book, Winter, the suspense runs deeper. While a campus murder sets the stage, the true intrigue lies in whether a decades-long relationship can endure grief, professional pressures, and the relentless passage of time.”

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Fault Line is the second in H. N. Hirsch’s Bob & Marcus Mystery series.

In the second of the Bob & Marcus Mystery series, newly minted 25-year-old lawyer Bob Abramson joins the DA’s office in San Diego. He soon finds himself leading an investigation into the politically charged murder of the mayor’s husband, a wealthy developer with far too many secrets for his wife’s political ambitions.

Bob’s first encounter with murder occurred four years previously, when his roommate, the scion of an old Boston family, was murdered and the case was investigated by the victim’s Harvard professor, Marcus George. As the investigation developed, Bob and Marcus, naturally, fell in love.

Now, Bob has completed law school and landed a job as an Assistant District Attorney in San Diego, and Marcus has accepted a new position at UC San Diego. As they settle in to their new home, they’re thrust into the investigation and its political ramifications, and they find that a gay subculture roils much of southern California’s placidly straight surface.

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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.

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