{"id":1023,"date":"2012-09-01T17:47:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T22:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2013-03-01T17:49:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T23:49:45","slug":"crimes-on-latimer-from-the-early-cases-of-marco-fontana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/crimes-on-latimer-from-the-early-cases-of-marco-fontana\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimes on Latimer: From the Early Cases of Marco Fontana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Picture8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1024\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" alt=\"cover of Crimes on Latimer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Picture8.png\" width=\"164\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/777251233\">DeMarco, Joseph R.G. Crimes on Latimer: From the Early Cases of Marco Fontana. Lethe Press, 2012. Paperback. 334 p. $18. 978-1-49021-374-2.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This collection of six mystery novellas follows a chronological approach from Marco&#8217;s first foray into investigation in high school when he defends his favored teacher from false accusations of murdering the school disciplinarian. The next stories depict his first office on Latimer and Twelfth, again in Philadelphia, and his work with a stripper club while he works as a private investigator.\u00a0 By presenting characters from prior events, DeMarco shows more and more about Marco throughout the book.<\/p>\n<p>The author treats such sensitive subjects as coming out, being a scholarship student at a ritzy school, working in a strip club, and remaining in the closet. He also uses the subjects of transgender, drag, and Pride. The stories raise issues also common in the heterosexual community indicating that they are not unique to being LGBTQ.<\/p>\n<p>The mysteries are well laid out with suspense and motivation for the perpetrators\u2019 actions, showing what makes them tick.\u00a0 Engaging characters also cause readers to feel empathy for those who are hurt and falsely accused. Well-researched and accurate details of Philadelphia and New York clearly portray the cities\u2019 geography and culture, and the events that occur.\u00a0 All these qualities make this book more than a simple mystery collection.<\/p>\n<p>This book is welcome to any mystery collection for adults or mature young adults.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer: <strong>s.n.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeMarco, Joseph R.G. Crimes on Latimer: From the Early Cases of Marco Fontana. Lethe Press, 2012. Paperback. 334 p. $18. 978-1-49021-374-2. This collection of six mystery novellas follows a chronological approach from Marco&#8217;s first foray into investigation in high school when he defends his favored teacher from false accusations of murdering the school disciplinarian. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}