How to Have a Killer Time in DC (Oliver Popp's Travel Guides to Murder)

ISBN: 1496753550

Author: Lumley, Sam

Condition: New

A young, gay, autistic travel writer takes a head-spinning detour when murder and romance unbalance his well-planned life and career in this fun, quirky debut mystery . . .For twenty-four-year-old Oliver Popp, autism is just another fact of life. As long as Oliver sticks to a comfortable itinerary planned well in advance, he gets by just fine as a staff writer for Offbeat Traveler magazine. But a curveball drops into Olivers budding career when his first feature assignment takes him to Washington, DC, to chronicle the latest tourism trends.His freelance project photographer is Ricky Warner, a gregarious and impulsively adorable shot of adrenaline. If the flirty gay photographer isnt enough to unbalance shy Oliver at the get-go, theres also an unsettling chance encounter with old acquaintance, Elise Perkins, and a congressional hearing thats shaking up both the capitol and an entrepreneurial billionaire. The unexpected distractions soon collide-quite literally-when Elise is struck dead by a speeding car. Funny how she didnt move and didnt scream. She just stared it down like she knew it was coming. Forget the National Mall and Mt. Vernon Square. Oliver and Ricky are game for something much more interesting: solving a mystery and a murder.With their focus shifted and a deadline coming, they only have a few days to solve the crime. For Oliver, its a weeks of firsts: first crush, first time without a schedule, first time playing amateur sleuth, and first time getting wrestled out of his comfort zone. But with a loosey-goosey new partner like Ricky, that might not be such a bad thing at all.