'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
--Miguel de Cervantes

Title
 
Shock to the System
Donald Strachey Mystery Series
AuthorRichard Stevenson
ISBN#978-1-934531-27-3
Release DateDecember 2008
Cover ArtistDeana C. Jamroz
Paperback:212 pages
Available At:MlrBooks (ebook)
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Young Paul Haig dies after hiring PI Donald Strachey. Despite his dislike of her, Strachey agrees with the boy's homophobic mother: Paul didn't commit suicide. But, she clings to deep denial about her son's sexual orientation. Conversion therapy - interventions to create ex-gays - get the once over in this Strachey mystery, and it ain't a pretty sight. (Don't let the HereTV adaptation of this story put you off this title.)

(Originally aired on HereTV; originally published 1995.)

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