Tony Fennelly: Kiss Yourself Goodbye (USA 2003)

From the Publisher:
Gay New Orleans aristocrat, Matt Sinclair, tries to solve a murder case while his boyfriend, Robin, demands a commitment ceremony.
Matt Sinclair, the gay scion of an old New Orleans family must clear his cousin Sylvia of murder. One Rodger Lloyd, Sylvia's ex-lover, and the sire of one of her sons was murdered in his hotel room. Lloyd's "dying message" seems to accuse Sylvia herself, as his last act was to open a book of Audubon prints to a picture of a Garden Warbler, "Sylvia Borin". Meanwhile, Matt's young live-in boy friend, Robin, is demanding that Matt prove his love by participating in a "Commitment Ceremony" at the Metropolitan Community Church.

Tony Fennelly: Kiss Yourself Goodbye. iUniverse, ISBN: 0595289738 (July, 2003), 216 p., $18.95.

Tony Fennelly: Kiss Yourself Goodbye (UK 1989)

From the Publisher:
"My law practice is like sex. I only do it for a few friends." So saying. Matt Sinclair, gay scion of an ancient New Orleans family, sets out to clear his cousin Sylvia of murder and to track down the real culprit.

The victim, Rodger Lloyd, was found in his hotel room with a knife between his shoulder blades and everything seems to point to Sylvia -- the man's finger is even pointing at a book of Audubon prints, open at a picture of a Garden Warbler, Sylvia Borin.

Lloyd, it transpires, had damaging information on all three candidates in the forthcoming mayoral elections, a convincing motive for murder. As Matt starts investigating in the strange world of New Orleans politics, those around him become the objects of the murderer's attention, and Matt himself is in the gravest danger.

The first Matt Sinclair novel, The Glory Hole Murders, was described by the The Literary Review as "Very gory, splendidly bitchy. A bit of a scream really and altogether original." The Evening Argas described the sequel, The Closet Hanging, as "a gory and bitchy tale full of splendidly drawn characters and lots of detail about the city that seems to be at the centre of a literary and cinematic revival."

Tony Fennelly: Kiss Yourself Goodbye. A Matt Sinclair Mystery. Arlington Books, ISBN: 0851407676 (October, 1989), 213 p., £9.95.