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Light Before Day

Light Before Day

by Christopher Rice

2004Fiction, lgbtq+, gayFiction, mystery & detective, generalMysteryFictionLGBTQ+
4.0
Open Library
Open Library

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Several weeks after her husband's death, Janice Hughes packed what remained of her belongings into her Toyota Camry, left her daughter's apartment in Berkeley, and drove east into California's Great Central Valley, where the knee-high carpets of tule grass make the low, rolling hills look like sand dunes, and the California Aqueduct, with its rippling surface and wide concrete banks, flows south alongside Interstate 5.

Several weeks after her husband's death, Janice Hughes packed what remained of her belongings into her Toyota Camry, left her daughter's apartment in Berkeley, and drove east into California's Great Central Valley, where the knee-high carpets of tule grass make the low, rolling hills look like sand dunes, and the California Aqueduct, with its rippling surface and wide concrete banks, flows south a…

About this book

Adam Murphy wants to be a serious journalist. Unfortunately, he spends his days writing copy about underwear and abs for a gay lifestyle magazine. When a troubled young porn star brings him a tip about a recently deceased marine’s secret visit to an infamous pimp for underage boys, Adam is determined to break the story…until someone starts threatening his life. Undeterred, Adam begins to unravel a deadly conspiracy involving runaway sugar daddies, salacious A-list parties, and three handsome young men who have vanished without a trace. Now he must enter the seedy underbelly of LA to find the truth behind their disappearance, as well as the disappearance of his ex-lover, Corey―who may have some deadly secrets of his own.

Themes & subjects

Fiction, lgbtq+, gayFiction, mystery & detective, generalMysteryFictionLGBTQ+Thriller
First published 2004

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Setting

West Hollywood (Calif.)

About the author

Christopher Rice
Christopher Rice

11 March 1978

Christopher Rice is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award and is the Amazon Charts and New York Times bestselling author of ***A Density of Souls***; ***Bone Music***, ***Blood Echo***, and ***Blood Victory*** in the *Burning Girl* series; and Bram Stoker Award finalists ***The Heavens Rise*** and ***The Vines***. An executive producer for television, he collaborated with his mother <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL39486A" target="_blank">Anne Rice</a> on the novel ***Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra*** and ***Ramses The Damned: The Reign of Osiris***. Together with his best friend and producing partner, New York Times bestselling novelist <a href="https://openlibra…

Author

Christopher Rice

First published

2004

Pages

336

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

6

Language

English

Publisher

Miramax

ISBN

9781401300395

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