Joseph Olshan

"When Luc Flanders disappears following a game of pond hockey with his friends, the police department at Clareton College in Vermont is divided in their assessment of what fate befell the young man. Some feel that Flanders went off the grid by choice. Others, including detectives Nick Jenkins and Helen Kennedy, suspect that something sinister may have befallen him." --

In New York, a love affair between two homosexuals. They both fear commitment having been hurt in previous affairs and the novel follows them as they dance round each other while doing the discos and the bars, watched by jealous ex-lovers intent on disrupting the relationship. First foray into gay fiction by the author of Clara's Heart.

Daniel Fell, a seventeen-year-old Jewish boy tortured over his parents divorce befriends two Italians--Gianni Scaravento and his terminally ill mother Angela--who give him the strength to fight his battle.