Susan Hooper

Belle Harbor Skeletons Susan Hooper 1st edition

Barnaby Moss and Arnie Kotkin, have been friends since their boyhood days of schoolyard squabbles and Catholic choirboy impersonations. Their families are as different as their financial backgrounds. Loving, nurturing and always supportive, the members of the middle-class Moss family stand by each other in all things, getting through difficulties with a laugh, as much as with strength of will. Barnaby's announcement that he is gay is met with support and acceptance. Never parents who turned a blind eye to their children's general behavior patterns, Stella and Lawrence Moss were really not surprised; after all, girlfriends were never in evidence in Barnaby's life. . . but Arnie Kotkin always was. In Belle Harbor, the name Kotkin is synonymous with pride. . . at least it has been ever since Thelma Fine married into the family 30 years ago. No indiscretion is too small to be frowned upon by the appearance-conscious Kotkin matriarch. Her son's confession that he is gay has turned her from social climber extraordinaire into a one-woman screaming match. As domestic partners, Barnaby and Arnie find themselves trying to lead ordinary lives. . . but family members are becoming strangers, and their quiet existence is turned upside down when they discover long-hidden secrets. . . and very present dangers. With no previous experience in the field of crime solving, they wonder if they can find the truth in time. . . Barnaby has already been shot once.