Cobalt

In this 1982 gay murder mystery by the author of Vermilion, summer in Provincetown is a nonstop party-until it stops dead.

Daniel Valentine is a gay bartender and former social worker. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight pal who works in real estate. They make an unconventional investigative duo-but sometimes unconventional is exactly what's called for.

Summer in P'town is definitely earning its reputation as Sodom-by-the Sea. Daniel scored a job tending bar for the season and Clarisse is here too, looking fabulous and searching for trouble. Only she finds the wrong kind when a dead body turns up on a beach.

No one knew Jeff that well, but his arresting cobalt eyes certainly caught people's attention. They made him some friends-and quite a few enemies. Which of these killed him?