Vermilion - Valentine and Lovelace, Bk 1 Author:Nathan Aldyne A Dan Valentine and Clarisse Lovelace Mystery — A dead young hustler is found with a lipstick-smeared handkerchief on the lawn of a queer-baiting legislator. Boston's political and queer communities are up in arms about the matter, and the police are bent on finding the killer -- fast. Best friends Daniel Valentine, gay bartender by night, detect... more »ive any hour, and Clarisse Lovelace, unmotivated real estate agent, team up and hit the streets of Boston to search for the killer. Through a sinister underworld of bars and baths, bondage and blackmail, they're out to solve a very bizarre murdernd uncover some very kinky and perhaps deadly games.« less