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A review by kaje_harper
The Boy Who Was Buried this Morning by Joseph Hansen
5.0
This book finds Dave changing, as he's supposedly retired and out to pasture. His friends are older and he's losing them to both age and the increasing ravages of AIDS in the community. He's starting to wonder why he's still around.
Cecil knows that nothing will make Dave feel more like himself than an investigation, and while he hates seeing Dave in danger, he still proposes that Dave check out the death of a co-worker. The case leads Dave into white-supremacist territory, and pits him against a bunch of suspects who are dangerous in different ways and for different reasons. There's a bit of fatality about Dave here that made me hold my breath at the risks he took (and sometimes want to shake sense into him) but I enjoyed both the mystery and the themes of aging and change.
Cecil knows that nothing will make Dave feel more like himself than an investigation, and while he hates seeing Dave in danger, he still proposes that Dave check out the death of a co-worker. The case leads Dave into white-supremacist territory, and pits him against a bunch of suspects who are dangerous in different ways and for different reasons. There's a bit of fatality about Dave here that made me hold my breath at the risks he took (and sometimes want to shake sense into him) but I enjoyed both the mystery and the themes of aging and change.