Geoffry Chadwick Misadventure 2
An unexpected Weekend Retreat … but who are the hostages?
LOS ANGELES—October 30, 2019—ReQueered Tales is proud to announce it has formed a new publishing venture to re-publish older LGBTQ fiction—beginning with award-winning titles and acclaimed authors. Our eleventh release, available worldwide as a Kindle, Kobo, Nook and iBooks e-book, is “BURIED ON SUNDAY” by Edward O. Phillips.
“Macabre, funny…. [a] witty, mordant work.” — Publishers Weekly
“One of the problems with weekends in the country” says Geoffry Chadwick’s genial host in Buried on Sunday, “is that people feel free to drop in unannounced.” And drop in they do. No sooner has our lovable lawyer hero, a partner in the prestigious law firm of Lyall, Pierce, Chadwick and Dawson—who just happens to be gay—settled in with a spicy Bloody Mary, than hardened criminals on the lam burst in and take Chadwick and his hosts hostage in their own beautiful home.
A tale of mystery and suspense brims with human drama, both poignant and comic: It turns out that one of the other hostages, now married, had once been Chadwick’s lover. As the hours of their forced confinement turn into days, a flood of bittersweet memories engulf Chadwick, of an affair whose painful end he could never forget, of a lover who had changed the course of his life. As the weekend moves toward its powerful denouement, Chadwick comes to terms with the road he has taken—and the quite different path, of marriage and convention, chosen by his early love.
Ken Adachi, in the Toronto Star fondly assessed: “Wry social comment is Phillips’ business. And at his best, he adroitly pinpoints our current convoluted absurdities—so hard to see while they are in process of happening, so easy to see with hindsight. Phillips’ aphorisms and rapid-fire one-liners are worthy of Peter de Vries or the wisecracking mystery writer Robert B Parker, and his characters are never short of repartée. But he is only half kidding.”
The San Francisco Chronicle welcomed Buried on Sunday in 1987: “Geoffry Chadwick, an acerbic lawyer who is frankly but never flamboyantly gay, makes his second appearance here, and long may he live to conduct his mordant and witty inquiries.”
First published in 1986, Buried On Sunday won the coveted Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award from the Crime Writers of Canada. This 2019 edition contains a contemporary interview with Phillips on the reception of his work and a reminiscence of Edward O. Phillips’ 80th birthday celebration by Toronto author Nancy Wigston.
BURIED ON SUNDAY e-book:
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234 pgs • ISBN 978-1-951092-08-5
US$5.95 • CAN$7.95 • UK£4.95 • EU€5.95 • AU$8.95
