Todd Mills Mystery series (#2-5) by R.D. Zimmerman
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Overview: Award-winning author R.D. Zimmerman has been nominated for two Edgars, two Lambda Literary Awards, and an Anthony. He has written ten previous novels, including Tribe and Closet (1996 Lambda Literary Award winner) in the Todd Mills series, six children’s books, and created six bestselling mystery jigsaw puzzles. Raised in Chicago, he now lives in Minneapolis.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
#2 – Tribe: All he remembered was the furtive encounter, the terror of discovery, the burning cigarette. . . and the voyeur on the fire escape plummeting to his death. For twenty years, Todd Mills was safe, closeted, building his career as a two-time Emmy Award-winning TV reporter. He had it all–until his double life became front-page news. Since his lover’s murder, Todd hadn’t worked. It was the first pause in his professional life.
Now he’s out, warily beginning a romance with police detective Steve Rawlins, when an old friend, an ex-girlfriend, calls for help. The son she gave up for adoption years before has found her–and left his baby. Now she and the baby are being stalked by a cult of zealots who will stop at nothing to reclaim the child. But as Todd steps into the firing range of The Congregation, he’s forced to face the nightmare of his own buried past, as murderous secrets return to kill again…
#3 – Hostage: Todd Mills is getting ready for the coup of his career: an exclusive interview with right-wing congressman Johnny Clariton, whose positions against gay rights and AIDS research promise to make his appearance with Minneapolis’s only openly gay journalist an explosive television event. Things are also getting pleasantly serious between Todd and Steve Rawlins, although Rawlins’ grieving over the recent end of his closest friend’s long struggle with AIDS is beginning to take its physical toll on the police detective.
Coup turns to chaos, and grief to despair, when Todd’s interview ends with the Congressman abducted by gun-wielding kidnappers–and a tragic discovery puts an unsuspecting Rawlins on the trail of the abductors, a trio of unlikely domestic terrorists in the final stages of AIDS, willing to risk what’s left of their lives to give violent expression to their desperate AIDS rage. Their goal: to make the world know what it’s like to live–and die–with AIDS. Their weapons: a Congressman, a video camera, and a syringe full of HIV-infected blood. Their conduit to the global viewing audience: Todd Mills, who knows more about their plans–and has more at stake–than he first realizes.
Unsettling, unpredictable and unapologetic in its dramatization of such hot-button issues as right-wing hypocrisy, AIDS activism, HIV infection and assisted suicide, Hostage is Zimmerman’s darkest and most suspenseful tale yet, a bold step forward for this acclaimed series.
#4 – Outburst: Todd Mills is running out of time. Against his instincts, Todd is lured to the Stone Arch Bridge by an anonymous phone call with promises of a hot blackmail story. Under pressure, and in need of a scoop, Minneapolis television’s most well-known (and only) openly gay reporter soon finds that his visit to the bridge does deliver a sensational exclusive, but not the one he is expecting: Todd arrives to see a man murdered, leaving him as the sole witness to the crime.
Todd’s lover, city homicide investigator Steve Rawlins, immediately takes on the case. But when a mysterious suspect emerges, the danger only intensifies, for this suspect has a secret, a past, and an identity that isn’t what it appears to be. An attempt is made on Rawlins’s life in the course of his investigation, and Todd–dragged into the center of the story he’s trying to cover–makes a frightening discovery. The murder victim was a police officer, and was gay. The killer, it seems, has developed a taste for watching gay cops die.
And unless Todd and Rawlins are able to put together the pieces of the suspect’s meticulously concealed past, the consequences may prove deadly–for them both.
#5 – Innuendo: Glamorous, fabulous, and famous, A-list actor Tim Chase is in town shooting his new film. Although he’s married to Gwen Owens, a beautiful and talented member of the Hollywood elite, one question continues to plague him: "Is he gay?" As a local gay investigative reporter, Todd knows he’s the perfect person to break the story, if he can get an interview with the reclusive star. Todd’s pursuit of the Chase story is tragically interrupted by the murder of a young runaway whom Todd and his lover, detective Steve Rawlins, both know from their volunteer efforts at the local centre for gay youths. As he investigates, Todd finds out that Rawlins knew the young man much more intimately than he is willing to admit at first, and that Rawlins is trying to keep this embarrassing fact from becoming public. Meanwhile, the clues that lead back to the movie star give Todd a whole new set of questions to ask in his interview…
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