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Bugchaser
This book contains explicit sexual situations and extreme violence.
Randall Hamilton craves crystal meth and sex of any variety. He's willing to do anything, go anywhere, meet anyone to sate his urges.
Suffering through banging, moaning and screaming each night, Stevie and Maria Hundt, Hamilton's neighbors, contend with the hell that Hamilton has made of their lives. Until, Stevie and his pregnant wife can take no more.
One month out of the Academy, Special Agent Alejandro Madrigal hates his assignment, the LAPD and the good old boys of the FBI. Single-handedly running the new Computer Support Services division in Los Angeles, Madrigal thinks he's found love cruising the nearby college campus restrooms. His name is Tad.
Their worlds collide at the corner of 39th Street and Norton Avenue in the City of Angels. There the ghost of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, is resurrected with the discovery of the bisected body of a young gay man who quickly becomes known as the Gay Dahlia.
Who is the copycat serial killer? And who is the next victim?
Bugchaser is a taut suspense thriller written by a new master reminiscent of the great crime noir writers.
For both gay and straight audiences, some material may not be suitable for all readers.
Adult discretion is strongly advised.
Randall Hamilton craves crystal meth and sex of any variety. He's willing to do anything, go anywhere, meet anyone to sate his urges.
Suffering through banging, moaning and screaming each night, Stevie and Maria Hundt, Hamilton's neighbors, contend with the hell that Hamilton has made of their lives. Until, Stevie and his pregnant wife can take no more.
One month out of the Academy, Special Agent Alejandro Madrigal hates his assignment, the LAPD and the good old boys of the FBI. Single-handedly running the new Computer Support Services division in Los Angeles, Madrigal thinks he's found love cruising the nearby college campus restrooms. His name is Tad.
Their worlds collide at the corner of 39th Street and Norton Avenue in the City of Angels. There the ghost of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, is resurrected with the discovery of the bisected body of a young gay man who quickly becomes known as the Gay Dahlia.
Who is the copycat serial killer? And who is the next victim?
Bugchaser is a taut suspense thriller written by a new master reminiscent of the great crime noir writers.
For both gay and straight audiences, some material may not be suitable for all readers.
Adult discretion is strongly advised.
297 pages, Paperback
First published March 26, 2011
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July 16, 2011
I tried to get into this book. If a book doesn't catch my attention with in the first few pages, I still force myself to get through the first few chapters in hopes that it changes for the better. No such luck here.
The first thread, the gay boy Randy who's daddy didn't love him was annoying. I just kept hoping he'd die of an overdose. His POV was schizophrenic. Stevie and Maria Hundt were just okay. Stevie came across in the first few chapters as a total pussy. I couldn't respect him.
I did like the thread with Special Agent Alejandro Madrigal in it. His interlude with the boy at the cafe, pretty cute. He was someone I would have like to read more about. If the story was perhaps just with AJ, I would have been able to keep reading.
I've read other books where there were multiple threads going push jumping from current to past to future in the timeline. This one just didn't work for me. I think it was because 2 of the 3 sets of characters didn't do anything for me. I guess this book is just not for me. Perhaps this is for the die hard mystery fans.
The first thread, the gay boy Randy who's daddy didn't love him was annoying. I just kept hoping he'd die of an overdose. His POV was schizophrenic. Stevie and Maria Hundt were just okay. Stevie came across in the first few chapters as a total pussy. I couldn't respect him.
I did like the thread with Special Agent Alejandro Madrigal in it. His interlude with the boy at the cafe, pretty cute. He was someone I would have like to read more about. If the story was perhaps just with AJ, I would have been able to keep reading.
I've read other books where there were multiple threads going push jumping from current to past to future in the timeline. This one just didn't work for me. I think it was because 2 of the 3 sets of characters didn't do anything for me. I guess this book is just not for me. Perhaps this is for the die hard mystery fans.
August 22, 2020
Has potential but flawed
This book had an interesting plot and characters to start out with, but unfortunately, the book runs out of steam by the ending. Many loose ends are not tied up (presumably because there was an initial intent to write more). The murder itself is only partly solved and even then the answers are only vague and suggestive. In reality, the book sort of just ends (one could say on a cliffhanger of sorts, but it’s not quite that well done). It just ends. This is unfortunate, as the two main characters were interesting enough for me to force myself to finish the story. I think with a better editor and some polish, this book could have been much better. The characters also could have the sustained a sequel or series potentially.
This book had an interesting plot and characters to start out with, but unfortunately, the book runs out of steam by the ending. Many loose ends are not tied up (presumably because there was an initial intent to write more). The murder itself is only partly solved and even then the answers are only vague and suggestive. In reality, the book sort of just ends (one could say on a cliffhanger of sorts, but it’s not quite that well done). It just ends. This is unfortunate, as the two main characters were interesting enough for me to force myself to finish the story. I think with a better editor and some polish, this book could have been much better. The characters also could have the sustained a sequel or series potentially.
April 14, 2016
A killer is going after young, gay men. He's being chased by a gay FBI agent, and it gets quickly complicated from there. Lawyers, dirty police, Hollywood elite, and TV crew ensue.
It's a decent read, but the last third of the book was extremely rushed. I think the writer honestly got bored with the book. One part just abruptly ends, likely to make the book shorter. Then the rest becomes bits and pieces of the story, unlike the rest of the book, which is rich in detail. It also ends in a cliffhanger with no second book, which I hate.
The book is very poorly edited with several spelling and grammatical errors that even Word would have caught. The formatting, for a Kindle book, was atrocious and made reading some parts difficult.
I'd have given this book four starts had it been completed, in part because it's a more unusual genre, but rushing through the conclusion and main part of the entire book is inexcusable. I feel like I wasted my time getting to know these characters and the situations only to have them drift off the margins of the book like the eraser remnants so coarsely used on them. Shame.
It's a decent read, but the last third of the book was extremely rushed. I think the writer honestly got bored with the book. One part just abruptly ends, likely to make the book shorter. Then the rest becomes bits and pieces of the story, unlike the rest of the book, which is rich in detail. It also ends in a cliffhanger with no second book, which I hate.
The book is very poorly edited with several spelling and grammatical errors that even Word would have caught. The formatting, for a Kindle book, was atrocious and made reading some parts difficult.
I'd have given this book four starts had it been completed, in part because it's a more unusual genre, but rushing through the conclusion and main part of the entire book is inexcusable. I feel like I wasted my time getting to know these characters and the situations only to have them drift off the margins of the book like the eraser remnants so coarsely used on them. Shame.
April 27, 2012
I thought this book was really something special! I did not have high hopes for it at first but after reading a couple of chapters I could not put it down... The book had great suspense, gore, and thrill! All of these elements combined made it a pretty great story. The fact that it was considered a gay interest novel was not the only aspect of the book, it just made the story personally more relatable. So all the thrills of a crime drama plus homosexual relations is an A+ in my book!
February 14, 2012
So far, my only comments are: there are so many mistakes. Baby Mikey became baby Willy; Audrey/Audry - the author didn't seem to remember which spelling to go with so went with both. And the amount of misplaced commas was bordering on the silly side. It's annoying but not enough to stop me reading.
September 28, 2011
Started out rather slow but what an ending!
December 24, 2014
Nicely paced and an easy to read style. It is a refreshing take on crime novels. I'd like to read what comes next on this series.
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