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Simple Suburban Murder is the book that started it all--the debut novel of Lambda Literary Award winner Mark Richard Zubro. When a gay high school teacher begins investigating a colleague's murder, he finds beneath the calm veneer of his Midwestern suburb a seamy underbelly of gambling, prostitution, and child abuse.
First publish date: 1989
Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction/Gay Fiction
Authors: Mark Richard Zubro
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