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Mason continues to help kids as much as he can as long as they are over the age of,

This time Mrs, Trask comes by Tom's school room to report that her son has been arrested for murder and desires Tom's help, Tom agrees and goes with her to the police station with her, Thereupon unfolds a story involving teenage love, sports, drugs, drinking, parents, people with limited power but who act as if they have more aka, School Board, teacher unions, car chases in blizzards, blizzards, and brief vague touches of gay sex.
Oh, and the worst bratty teenager of all time the Becky Twitchell from the book title,

An interesting enough story and mystery, And, like last time, Tom's boyfriend, MVP,time Cy Young winner Scott Carpenter helps Tom investigate, And like last time, they kind of stumble around gathering information until they stumble enough into the correct solution, "I must talk to this person now, Now I must talk to this person, " "But you shouldn't talk to that one, you could get fired, " "So what. " One would think teaching would be a quiet profession, But not in Chicago, thinks high school teacher Tom Mason when he hears that one of his students has been accused of killing his girlfriend.
As a friend of the boy's family, Tom is asked to help clear him, and the more he probes, the more it seems that something sinister is going on in the usually quiet suburbs of Chicago.
With the aid of his lover Scoot Carpenter, a professional baseball player, the two set out to discover what really happened that night.


Mark Richard Zubro's second mystery for Tom and Scott is just as stunning as the first, Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead is a delicious satirical pageturner, Tom Mason is asked for help by a parent when one of his pupils is arrested on suspicion of murder, While not as strong as the first instalment, this book is just as fastpaced and engaging, I loved the twists and turns of the plot, although I found it did become ridiculous at times, and I have doubts over Tom's choices.
I'm wondering whether these will come to be addressed i, e. has his time in Vietnam left more of an impact than he's willing to openly admit which would go some way to explain his extreme recklessness and attraction to danger.
As ever, the relationship between Tom and

Scott is lovely, and I especially liked the soft moments when Tom is comforting Scott about accepting his sexuality.
Becky is a wild character and while I felt the dialogue is usually very good, she didn't sound like a teenager, and I hated the way she's sexualised by the adult men around her.
There's quite a lot of nastiness in this book to do with women's physical appearances, looking like cheap whores, complaining about being on their periods etc, and I don't think it added anything to the narrative.
Same as Tom suddenly becoming antiArab for no specific reason could've done without that lol, . . Tom Mason is approached by a student's mother to help after her son is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend.
He decides to investigate, with the help of his partner Scott, who really killed the girl, Their investigation leads to a drug ring at the school, Very good for the firstof the book but the ending seemed very anticlimactic and rushed, Nice follow up with a couple of mystifying points along the way, like why did the police not pick up on the threat to Tom in his classroom after the first death as obviously the Trask boy couldn't have done it and by implication either had an acomplice or someone else had commited the murder.

Nevertheless it was a story well told and once on this roller coaster adventure it was impossible to put down until the "baddies" had been identified and motives explained.

.marked up toFurther tales of Tom and Scott, I love these booksstars. Good gay mystery in which high school teacher Tom is asked to help out a student accused of murdering his girlfriend.
I really enjoy the dynamic between Tom and his partner Scott, Another murderous romp with Tom and Scott,
Our heroes do fall into that TSTL trope at times but pull themselves out,
The undercurrents of society are once again exposed through all the perfect school kids when drink, drugs, sex, abuse and murder come to light.

It is set in what is now quite a while back so somethings seem a bit daft but at the time, would have been the norm.

Tom and Scott do think they can get away with keeping Scott in the closet but then go places and do things which are only ever going to expose his secret.

Some of those kids are scary, some are sad,
The police are very tolerant of our sleuths!!!
,probably on a sliding scale but I do like the stories, onwards!!! Very much like the first book in this series, A Simple Suburban Murder.
Makes me wonder if each book in the series is going to be about corrupted students at Grover Cleveland High School.
If so, this will be a major disappointment, Zubro should have upped his game from the beginning, You know, I didn't realize it was a Tom and Scott mystery until just now, I believe I abandoned one of the other books as well,

I couldn't make it past the first two chapters, The writing is just horrible!

A conversation between two people, Tom first person POV would talk, Then the other person in the conversation would say a line of dialogue, then Tom would sum up what else the person went on to say.
times in a row in the same conversation, Let the character speak for himself!

Didn't care about anyone enough to see if the author would knock off that annoying habit.
Author also writes as: sitelink Mark Zubro, Mark Richard Zubro is an American mystery novelist, He lives in Mokena, Illinois and taughtth grade English at Summit Hill Jr, High in nearby Frankfort Square, Illinois, Zubro writes bestselling mysteries set in Chicago and the surrounding Cook County area, which are widely praised as fast paced, with interesting plots and well rounded, likeable characters.
His novels feature gay themes, and Zubro is himself gay, His longest running series features high school teacher Tom Mason, and Toms boyfriend, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, The other series Zubro is known for is the Paul Turner mysteries, which are about a Chicago police detective, The books are a part of the Stonewall Inn Mystery serie Author also writes as: sitelink Mark Zubro, Mark Richard Zubro is an American mystery novelist, He lives in Mokena, Illinois and taughtth grade English at Summit Hill Jr, High in nearby Frankfort Square, Illinois, Zubro writes bestselling mysteries set in Chicago and the surrounding Cook County area, which are widely praised as fast paced, with interesting plots and well rounded, likeable characters.
His novels feature gay themes, and Zubro is himself gay, His longest running series features high school teacher Tom Mason, and Tom's boyfriend, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, The other series Zubro is known for is the Paul Turner mysteries, which are about a Chicago police detective, The books are a part of the Stonewall Inn Mystery series, published by St, Martin's Press. Zubro won a Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's Mystery for his book A Simple Suburban Murder, Series: sitelink Tom Mason and Scott Carpenter sitelink Paul TurnerI am the author of twenty four mystery novels and five short stories.
My book A Simple Suburban Murder won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's mystery, I also wrote a thriller, Foolproof, with two other mystery writers, Jeanne Dams and Barb D'Amato, I taught eighth graders English and reading for thirty four years and was president of the teachers' union in my district fromuntil.
I retired from teaching inand now spend my time reading, writing, napping, and eating chocolate, My newest book, Another Dead Republican, is my thirteenth book in the Tom and Scott series which features as main characters, a gay school teacher and his lover, a professional baseball player.
One of the keys in my mysteries is you do not want to be a person who is racist, sexist, homophobic, or a school administrator.
If you are any of those, it is likely you are the corpse, or, at the least, it can be fairly well guaranteed that bad things will happen to you by the end.
And if in my books you happen to be a Republican and/or against workers' rights, it would be far better if you did not make a habit of broadcasting this.
If you did, you're quite likely to be a suspect, or worse, sitelink.