Safe at Home: A Kate Henry Mystery

Janet Money is Sports Editor of the Woodstock Daily Sentinel-Review.

This is Gordon’s second mystery featuring baseball writer Kate Henry.

While Henry is breaking the story of a Toronto Titans player coming out
of the closet, her cop lover is concentrating on a case involving a
molester and murderer of young boys. As the tension mounts, we get
convincing whiffs of atmosphere from the locker room, the newsroom, and
the squad room. Henry is increasingly caught up in events, and she
breaks the case in a chilling climax.

Gordon’s use of the gay baseball player may have been a political
move to point out that most child-molesters (including the one in this
novel) are in fact heterosexual, and to show that homosexuals are just
ordinary folk. Gordon handles sensitive issues deftly, and does not shy
away from exposing athletes and reporters at their prejudiced worst.
None of this detracts from the fast-paced, entertaining mystery.

Gordon, a former baseball writer with the Toronto Star, has hit on a
winning formula with Kate Henry. Readers will rejoice if Dead Pull
Hitter (1988) and this novel are the start of a Kate Henry series.