Bathhouse Stories by Rahula, Robert

Robert Rahula

Bathhouse Stories

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In an unnamed and timeless Latin American country, the lives of six men and three police officers intertwine after a brutal murder in a gay...

In an unnamed and timeless Latin American country, the lives of six men and three police officers intertwine after a brutal murder in a gay bathhouse. Dan Landes, an expatriate retired Los Angeles cop, is recruited to hunt for a serial killer who preys on lonely men in the dark steam rooms. When it looks like the killer might get away with another murder, Dan is forced to use his friend Ricardo as bait. Explicit content. 18 and older please.

From Robert Rahula, the acclaimed author of Messieurs and Conversations in a Belgium Bar, comes a graphic and "sexistential" story of sexual murder in Latin America. But behind the explicit scenes of anonymous gay sex lies a deeper story. Robert Rahula navigates this dark take on the classic murder mystery to examine the irreconcilable conflict between the North American justice system and the "old ways" of a small Latino town. Cultural assumptions of evidence, due process, sexual tolerance, fairness, and justice collide when police from different countries are forced to work together.

Over the past 30 years, Robert Rahula has published dozens books of prose and poetry in Spain and in the United States. While he remains relatively undiscovered in the United States, he is revered in Spain as the founder of the "portilla" style of popular Spanish poetry: non-metered fluid verse that deals with love, loss, bisexuality, separateness, and growing older. Robert was born in Spain to an American father and Spanish mother, but grew up in Virginia on the farm of his paternal grandparents. He returned to Menorca, Spain, in the 1960s to pursue his writing career. These days he travels in Europe, Central and South America for several months a year, giving readings and lectures, and spends the rest of his time writing, dividing his time between Spain and the United States. All of Robert's English books are available through Amazon Kindle, including his groundbreaking erotic novel Messieurs; his second English novel Panamaniac; his erotic murder mystery Island of Misfits; his surreal novel Day Another Paradise In; his acclaimed supernatural novel One Last Fling; his "sexistential" novel Conversations in a Belgian Bar; as well as his three "Dan Landes Mystery" novels: Bathhouse Stories, All the Yage in Reno, and Exigent Circumstances. Seven volumes of Robert's English poetry are also available on Amazon: Trigger Points; Inside the Locked Heart; Camino; Migration; I Sing the Body Politic; Wonderland; From Whose Bourn; an anthology of his English poems and short stories, Half-Life; and a collection of his most famous Spanish poems, Poemas Espanoles. Other poems, along with his blog on writing and his tour itinerary, appear on his Facebook page and on his website robertrahula.com.

Genre
Erotic Mystery
Pages
136
Publisher
Alma-Gator
Publication Date
February 9, 2018
ISBN
9780999473627