The Dream Ender: A Dick Hardesty Mystery | 
 enlarge | Author: Dorien Grey
Publisher: Zumaya Publications, LLC
Category: Book
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.2
ISBN: 1934135623
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781934135624
ASIN: 1934135623
Publication Date: September 8, 2008
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Product Description
When rugged construction worker and biker Cal Hysong is killed, Dick knows the reason?Cal was widely suspected of deliberately spreading AIDS to other gay men. Like the rest of the gay community, Dick's initial reaction is ?good riddance.? But when Jake Jacobson and Jared Martinson, two of his closest friends, become suspects, the case turns personal, and Dick sets out to clear them and find the real killer. His search takes him into the unfamiliar world of gay bikers and leathermen, and through a labyrinth of suspects, motivations, blind alleys and memorable characters.
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 Uninvolving November 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a gay man who lived (literally) through the early days of the AIDS epidemic and panic, I thought I would find this much more poignant and interesting. But I didn't find it that at all. It was the first of the Dick Hardesty mysteries I've read, and I don't plan to read any more. Not really terrible, it didn't really grab me. Seems a little overwritten at 212 pages, a few grammatical errors and more than a few typos were a distraction, and I really didn't feel that drawn into the lives of the main characters.
 Dorien Grey Does It Again August 3, 2008
Dorien Grey continues to develop his characters, which we fans have all come to love, with verve and panache. This is a worthy addition to the Dick Hardesty series, and I anxiously await the next one.
Not just another story December 17, 2007
Little was known about it in the 70's; even its name, AIDS, was just beginning to be recognized as a new terror. There was no test to determine its presents. Some are carriers and don't know it, while the medical world searches for answers--men are dying.
Was the rumor that someone was deliberately spreading the disease true? If so it wasn't a crime--to the law at any rate, not yet. Or was the rumor spread only to close a popular gay bar and destroy its owner? Dick Hardesty is hired to find out.
This book has strong overtones and undertones of the gay life. What it was and what it became because of the treat of AIDS. But its more--there's murder and mystery. In truth this is not a book I would normally pick up to read, but maybe because AIDS has touched my family as it has so many others, I found the story compelling and I had to read it to the end. Not for everyone, but it should be.
Review by Wanda C. Keesey (author of Lost In The Mist release date May 2008)
An Exceptional Reflection August 26, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For Dick Hardesty fans, this book will add another chapter in the maturing family life of the heroes. However, the most significant and chilling part of this novel is the reflection on the emergence of HIV/AIDS and how our community responded...not very proudly at first, but in light of current management, the past expectations have been justified. The latest resurgence of the disease, based in part upon a smug confidence in therapy, makes the retelling of this early story very timely. Dorien is to be congratulated for tackling a difficult subject and weaving it around his usual community snapshop of characters.
The series continues August 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"In the early years of the AIDS crisis, death stalks. Is some one purposely spreading AIDS? Dick Hardesty needs to find out, and from there,with some unexpected plot twists, the story unfolds. A dark and painful tale, of sorrow, death, and murder. More than a mystery, The Dream Ender is also a tale full of hope as the main characters grow and mature and continue to respond with love to the cycles of life. Although The Dream Ender stands alone as a well written mystery, it is as well an engrossing chapter in the continuing Dick Hardesty series. I eagerly await the next in the series."
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