Valentine & Lovelace Mystery Series by Nathan Aldyne

A dead young hustler is found on the lawn of a queer-baiting legislator. Boston's political and queer communities are up in arms about the matter, and police are bent on finding the killer -- fast. Best friends Daniel Valentine and Clarisse Lovelace team up and hit the streets of Boston. Through a sinister underworld of bars and baths, bondage and blackmail, they're out to solve a very bizarre murder.

The two sometimes-detectives from VERMILION have teamed up again for a summer of fun in Provincetown. While Valentine browses for Mr. Right, Clarisse nabs a hunky cop all her own. But suddenly suspicion burns hotter than the sun as a string of murders mars the merriment. And somehwere in the endless secrets, jealousies, and lies behind the beautiful faces around them is a motive for murder.

Valentine and Clarisse Lovelace Mystery Nathan Aldyne Business hasn't been so good at Daniel Valentine's gay bar, especially since more and more of the clientele are turning up dead-strangled with neckties. The police are baffled, so Valentine and his crime-solving partner Clarisse set about to find the murderer, and save Valentine from bankruptcy. There is no end to the suspects...or the victims. And you never know which is which-until they turn up with that necktie necklace.