From Library Journal
Underemployed graphic artist Alex Reynolds and his lover, Peter Livesay, volunteer at the Chicago campaign headquarters of a liberal senate contender. When an early morning explosion kills the lesbian office manager, the CIA, wondering who the real target was, asks Alex and Peter (part-time employees anyway) for help. As in past adventures, Peter acts as foil to Alex's flightiness, while Alex's mom assists. Here she has a special assignment: her attractive English suitor happens to have been in the wrong place at the right time. As usual, Hunter provides a lively romp for series fans. Recommended.
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From Booklist
Hunter presents another charmer in his Alex Reynolds series. As always, Alex's sidekick is his partner of eight years, the more conservative Peter, who may roll his eyes in exasperation at Alex's wilder schemes, but who inevitably goes along. Third in the triumphant trio is Alex's mom, Jean, a terribly British and wonderfully comic character who plays sidekick to no one, and who is quite possibly the most diverting second banana in gay/lesbian mystery fiction since Ellen Hart's irrepressible Cordelia Thorne. This time around, the fellows are volunteers for gay-friendly politician Charlie Clarke, stuffing envelopes and fielding telephone hate messages from the Religious Reich when the headquarters is bombed, killing the office manager. There's never a dull moment on the home front, either, since Jean is caught up in a whirlwind courtship with a visiting professor. The thought (let alone the reality) of his mother dating--and effervescing about it--has Alex in a tailspin as he suspiciously questions the coincidence--or is it?--of seemingly unrelated events.
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