PRECIOUS FRIENDS: MURDER IN SAG HARBOR

In this third scorching installment of Angelo Perrotta Mysteries, Precious Friends: Murder in Sag Harbor takes place in the charming village located on the South Fork of Long Island. A vicious and suspenseful story of love gone sour. JB and Mike’s marriage is held together by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to protect their son and uphold the family’s reputation, Mike is allowed to discretely take any number of lovers after JB survived prostate cancer that rendered him sexually inadequate. Eventually, JB can no longer hide his jealousy and attempts to win back his husband by asserting himself through a tall tale he murdered a couple Mike had taken up with last summer. But when Mike’s latest “stray” — an Italian pianist — is found face down in the swimming pool at TV chef Winnie Beltram’s costume gala, JB becomes the prime suspect. In this complex portrayal of dangerous psychosis emerging in the most unlikely of places – the Hamptons – Spinelli examines the chilling reality behind the idyllic façade of American suburban life for one gay couple and the extreme lengths taken to maintain that façade at all cost.