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The Constant Caprese (A Nick Williams Mystery Book 20) Kindle Edition
Nick and Carter have left Nice and, after sailing down the Italian coast, have dropped anchor at the island of Procida, just across the bay from the Naples coast.
Nick, as he is wont to do, meets the one homosexual who works at the local post office and, in short order, is invited to dinner along with Carter to meet the entire family. Italians, after all, are so friendly!
Meanwhile, Lord Gerald, their friend in British intelligence, has sent a cryptic telegram asking them to take a package over to Capri, an island on the far side of the Bay of Naples.
When they dock at Capri the next morning, they find a dying duke, an eccentric earl, and a vigilant viscount all living together in a glorious villa dating back to the turn of the century. These are the final remnants of the once-thriving community of homosexual Englishmen who made the Italian island their sanctuary where they could live in peace as themselves.
But is someone haunting this idyllic Mediterranean paradise? Who cut the phone line for no apparent reason? Who opened the locked door and then unlocked it again? Who is playing pranks with the plumbing? Maybe these are all just coincidences... Or maybe there is something more sinister afoot...
Come sail away with Nick and Carter to the Island of Capri and find out!
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 9, 2018
- File size4911 KB
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- ASIN : B07C2KNQNJ
- Publisher : (April 9, 2018)
- Publication date : April 9, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 4911 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 342 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #635,868 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #614 in LGBTQ+ Mystery (Books)
- #1,012 in LGBTQ+ Mystery (Kindle Store)
- #4,792 in Private Investigator Mysteries (Kindle Store)
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About the author
Frank W. Butterfield, not an assumed name, loves old movies, wise-cracking smart guys with hearts of gold, and writing for fun.
Although he worships San Francisco, he lives at the beach on another coast.
Born on a windy day in November of 1966, he was elected President of his high school Spanish Club in the spring of 1983.
After moving across these United States like a rapid-fire pinball, he currently makes his home in a hurricane-proof motel with superior water pressure that was built in 1947.
While he hasn't met any dolphins personally, that invitation is always open.
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Having fled their gilded prison in Nice (Nizza in Italian), the boys, guided by their trusty captain O’Reilly on a new, smaller sailing yacht, explore the coastal towns of southern Italy—Procida, Naples, and finally Capri. They are ostensibly killing time until they can figure out a “way home,” meaning San Francisco, with the idea of returning to Australia to fulfill a promise they made many books ago to a now-deceased friend. But fate seems to have them in its sights again.
One consistent motif that has threaded through this extensive series is the ghost of Nick’s great-uncle Paul Williams, the vastly rich and notoriously queer figure who left Nick his fortune. He shows up in Nick’s dreams, offering advice, but also raising questions. Uncle Paul is important in this volume, because Nick and his beloved Carter are, literally and figuratively, at sea.
Capri, celebrated a century ago as a sort of “Fantasy Island” for rich homosexual Brit exiles, male and female, becomes a kind of touch point in Nick and Carter’s journey. Here they encounter a whole gaggle of men of varying ages, ethnicities and classes, who embody the social and emotional conflicts that Nick and Carter have experienced in their life together, and distill it into a clear, sharp truth: Nick and Carter are special, and they have a place in the world, a destiny, that matters. Never has Frank Butterfield gotten quite so existential as he does on this romantic, rocky, sun-baked island.
Of course there are several mysterious deaths, one of which is even tragic. There are plenty of eccentric and amusing characters, lush descriptions of the island and its people; and we also finally get the full story about Nick and Carter’s elusive friend, Gerald Whitcombe. And therein lies quite a startling tale, offering our boys a new insight into what their notoriety means in the larger picture of history.
Sounds portentous doesn’t it?
Once again, as with the last book, “The Leaping Lord,” this book feels poised on the precipice of something new—which, at #20, is pretty astounding. This series is not winding down. Frank Butterfield’s vivid imagination and love of history (and obsession with describing everybody’s height, weight, age and coloring—something I appreciate) is not petering out.
We’ve come a long way from the little house in San Francisco. Where will Frank take us next?
There were several characters and situations that weren't well thought out or developed. Strangely enough, the whole espionage angle, while handled in a very clumsey manner, was a realistic set of problems during the Cold War Era. It would not have been unusual for the 2MC's to be recruited to spy while abroad, especially by/for a foreign gov. It was well known that European and Soviet spy agencies recruited bi-sexuals for spies because of their ability to compromise foreign diplomats and blackmail them. None of that is touched upon in the last several books, even though the British,French, and Soviets were/are known for it. It is unsatisfying for an author to infer these things with the characters then drop them with a thud.
Very few of the new characters introduced were likable much less believeable. And the likable ones were dropped from the plot or just beside the plot as a diversion. One of the few enjoyable scenes in this book was showing the usually unflapable Carter as anxious and recombing his pompadour 3 or 4 times to shake his nerves. It rang true for me because every Son Of The South I have ever known, straight or gay, ALWAYS had perfect hair.
While not one of his better books, it isn't bad. I found it unremarkable and no big deal to skip.