{"id":33,"date":"2009-07-08T08:41:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T13:41:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-03T18:27:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T23:27:42","slug":"deadly_nightshade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/deadly_nightshade\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Nightshade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloglink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/oclc\/318571405\">Banis, Victor J. <em>Deadly Nightshade.<\/em> Albion, NY: MLR Press LLC, 2009. paperback. 217p. $14.99. ISBN: 9781934531747.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bloglink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0pt none initial;\" title=\"deadly nightshade\" src=\"http:\/\/coverart.oclc.org\/ImageWebSvc\/oclc\/+-+0596203685837_140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although closely following a traditional mystery formula, Victor Banis&#8217; <em>Deadly Nightshade<\/em> is pure erotic fantasy. In the real world, openly gay men and lesbians have served in the San Francisco Police Department for decades. In the world of Stanley Korski, however, being a gay member of the SFPD makes him so exceptional that after a single week on the force he&#8217;s brought in to investigate a homicide when eyewitnesses report that the shooter was a drag queen. Stanley&#8217;s arch patter and campy ways terrify his police detective partner, the manly and hirsute Tom Danzel. (Tom&#8217;s so manly he has to ask what a Neanderthal is.) Of course the two officers complement each other beautifully as they pursue the perp, and of course Stanley falls hard for the unattainable-or-is-he? Tom.<\/p>\n<p>Stereotypes abound, but originality is hardly the point, and if <em>Deadly Nightshade<\/em> is not quite as witty as it tries to be, by the end I was intrigued enough to wonder what could possibly happen next. Fortunately, this is the first of a series, to be followed by <em>Deadly Wrong<\/em> and <em>Deadly Dreams.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Victor Banis has written more than 150 books, including the 2008 memoir <em>Spine Intact, Some Creases.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recommended for large, gay-themed collections.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by,\u00a0<strong>Joyce Meggett<\/strong><br \/>\nDivision Chief for Humanities<br \/>\nChicago Public Library<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banis, Victor J. Deadly Nightshade. Albion, NY: MLR Press LLC, 2009. paperback. 217p. $14.99. ISBN: 9781934531747. Although closely following a traditional mystery formula, Victor Banis&#8217; Deadly Nightshade is pure erotic fantasy. In the real world, openly gay men and lesbians have served in the San Francisco Police Department for decades. In the world of Stanley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"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\/33"}],"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\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}