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Fiction Private Investigators

The Jade Butterfly

A Dan Sharp Mystery

by (author) Jeffrey Round

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2015
Category
Private Investigators, Hard-Boiled, Gay
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459721876
    Publish Date
    Jan 2015
    List Price
    $6.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781459721852
    Publish Date
    Jan 2015
    List Price
    $11.99

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Description

A seemingly casual encounter in a downtown bar sends missing persons investigator Dan Sharp in search of a woman presumed dead in the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Twenty years after her disappearance, her brother believes that a woman he glimpsed on the Internet is his sister, now living in Toronto. The closer Dan gets to finding her, however, the less sense things make. Just when he thinks he knows what’s driving his client, an unexpected revelation forces him to choose between what he’s been told and his gut instinct, which says things are not all they seem.

About the author

Jeffrey Round is the Lambda-Award winning author of the Dan Sharp mystery series. Twice nominated for a ReLit Award for both poetry and fiction, he also penned the comic Bradford Fairfax mystery series and the stand-alone mystery Endgame, dubbed a “punk rock reboot” of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. His first two books, A Cage of Bones and The P-town Murders, were listed on AfterElton’s Top 100 Greatest Gay Books. You can find him on Facebook and at http://jeffreyround.com.

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Editorial Reviews

Round doesn’t even mention the titular jade butterfly until halfway through the latest installment in his Dan Sharp mystery series, but that’s OK because Toronto-based, gay PI Sharp is such an interesting character.

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