It's 1979, the height of the post-stonewall era of gay sexual liberation, and a young man has been brutally murdered. The gay son of wealthy family has disappeared. Now it's up to Don Strachey to get the bottom of this mess-even if he has to cruise every gay bar in the city to do it!

Don Strachey isn't exactly the most sought-after private eye in Albany, New York. In fact, this gay P.I. has gotten to the point of having to write checks to pay his tav at the cheapest lunch counter in town. And he isn't sure that the latest one, for the grand total of two dollars and ninety-one cents, is going to clear. Then the phone rings. Billy Blount, the gay hair to one of Saratoga Springs' upper-crust families, has disappeared, and his parents want him back. On top of that, Billy, a young and outspoken gay activist, is wanted for the grizzly murder of the man he slept with on his last night in Albany - a man he'd never met before that night.

Here's what the critics have said about Death Trick:

"Sassy and sexy...Don Strachey is a private dick who really earns his title" - Armistead Maupin

"A great lazy-day read" - The Advocate

"Well written and compelling" - Newsday