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Palgrave Macmillan (1998), Edition: 1st, 243 pages
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After a difficult summer, the last thing that gay high school teacher Tom Mason needs in the new school year is turmoil. But a conservative parents' group, "worried" about gay teachers corrupting the students, is attempting to take over the local PTA. And it soon gets worse--one of the ringleaders of the parents' group is murdered in the high school after a very contentious PTA meetings, and Tom's best friend is arrested for the crime. Now to prove her innocence, Tom must hunt down the realkiller...
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As high school teacher Tom Mason prepares his classroom for the start of the new year and deals in school politics, a murder occurs and his friend is blamed for it. Meanwhile, Tom's lover, Scott Carpenter, a famous baseball player, is just coming off a national publicity tour in which he came out
The mystery is pretty straight-forward but the telling is entertaining. The characters are people I 'recognize' from school settings, and Tom is a pleasantly imperfect character. Although the cover of the book says, "A Tom & Scott Mystery," the reader doesn't see much of Scott; I would have liked to know more about him.
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about his sexuality. The mystery is pretty straight-forward but the telling is entertaining. The characters are people I 'recognize' from school settings, and Tom is a pleasantly imperfect character. Although the cover of the book says, "A Tom & Scott Mystery," the reader doesn't see much of Scott; I would have liked to know more about him.
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English
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1998
ISBN
0312185286 / 9780312185282