Sunday's Child (A Geoffry Chadwick Misadventure 1)

A gay Montreal lawyer accidentally kills a young hustler and disposes of the body in this stylish first novel. From the narrator-hero Geoffry Chadwick's lips flow a steady stream of chirpy musings on his sex life, his past, and the homosexual sensibility. After the accidnetal killing, Chadwick is determined to retain his respectability, engaging in various activities including freezing the corpse, dismembering it, and droppings off various pieces around town over a period of several days--with occasional moments of panic or danger. In between these excursions, there are recollections--of Geoffry's brief but happy early marriage (ended by a car crash); of his subsequent shift to homosexual affairs, including an intense romantic liaison, recently ended, with a married schoolteacher. There are descriptions of Geoffry's current encounters with his nasty old mother, his campy/ boozy chum Larry, and his 20-ish nephew--who cheerfully announces his own homosexuality. With black-comic suspense, its campy profile of gay self-esteem is smooth and painless and utterly unjoyable.