Lake on the Mountain
A Dan Sharp Mystery
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Publisher Description
2013 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery — Winner
When missing persons investigator Dan Sharp attends a wedding, he finds himself investigating more than one murder.
Dan Sharp, a gay father and missing persons investigator, accepts an invitation to a wedding on a yacht in Ontario’s Prince Edward County. It seems just the thing to bring Dan closer to his noncommittal partner, Bill, a respected medical professional with a penchant for sleazy after-hours clubs, cheap drugs, and rough sex. But the event doesn’t go exactly as planned.
When a member of the wedding party is swept overboard, a case of mistaken identity leads to confusion as the wrong person is reported missing. The hunt for a possible killer leads Dan deeper into the troubled waters and private lives of a family of rich WASPs and their secret world of privilege.
No sooner is that case resolved when a second one ends up on Dan’s desk. Dan is hired by an anonymous source to investigate the disappearance, twenty years earlier, of the groom’s father. The only clues are a missing bicycle and six horses mysteriously poisoned.
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In this skillfully told first in a new series from Canadian author Round (Vanished in Vallarta), Dan Sharp, a Toronto missing persons investigator and gay single father, is thrilled to be invited to a wedding in Prince Edward County. Thom Killingworth, an old friend of Dan's commitment-phobic lover, Bill, is marrying his mail-order "bride," Sebastiano Ballancourt, on the family yacht. But first Dan must look into the disappearance of a teenage boy. As he hits the haunts of runaway teens, Dan is reminded of his own dark youth and vows to keep his 14-year-old son, Ked, from such pain and misery. Dan's hopes for a romantic weekend with Bill are dashed as prewedding jitters between Thom and Sebastiano turn into high tension. The fatal fall of Sebastiano's sister off the yacht soon looks much more like murder than an accident. Round draws readers deep into Dan's physical and psychological worlds, balancing his protagonist's faults with his gifts as an investigator and father.
