Have You Read 'Vanished in Vallarta' Yet? Team Angels - PVAngels
September 14, 2014

What happens in Puerto Vallarta, stays in Puerto Vallarta...

On a mysterious assignment at the famed Mexican resort, gay caballero Bradford Fairfax discovers he has far more to worry about than sand fleas and la turista, when a sultry diva sends out a distress signal, and he is there to answer her call.

Brad is left with nowhere to turn when a fellow agent is murdered passing on top-secret information, and his former partner-in-espionage, Little Wing, returns from the dead looking sexier than any corpse should be allowed!

Vanished in Vallarta is the third installment in the Bradford Fairfax Murder Mystery series, full of action, intrigue, and more heat than a habanero salsa!

Author Jeffrey Round is the 2013 Lambda Literary Award Winner in Gay Mystery, an award-winning writer, director and playwright. He has worked as a television producer and writer for the CBC and Alliance Atlantis. He has a BA in English Literature and Theatre from Dalhousie, has attended the Humber School for Writers, and has studied Film and Television at Ryerson University. He lives in Toronto.

Excerpt from Jon Michaelson's interview with Jeffrey Round after winning the Lambda Literary Award

Jon Michaelson: The Bradford Fairfax mystery novels have been identified as campy, somewhat humorous mysteries, and set in exotic locations such as P’Town, or Provincetown, MA; Key West, FL  and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico? Where does your sense of humor come from? Are you as well-traveled as your protagonist?

Jeffrey Round: Ah, humour! It comes from the gods, I suspect. In high school, I was introduced to the classics: Laughing and Grief. I enjoy both equally. I am inspired by my travels, and can always be found laughing at (or with) something. I’m an ardent observer of human nature and consider myself a social critic. It’s the desire to make things better for the world and, at the same time, having learned to take life’s preposterousness with a grain of salt that ignites my sense of humour.

As for travels, I’ve been to all the places I’ve written about in both mystery series. I am often inspired to write because of the people I meet, the events I witness, as well as just by the sheer daydreaming that happens when I travel. The P-Town Murders was sparked by the realization that I was being spied on from next door by someone with binoculars while I lay naked in a Jacuzzi in my guest-house. As I like to say, I got out of the tub and flashed the guy, then had a flash of my own — that of writing a mystery about a guy being spied on in Provincetown. Bradford, incidentally, is named after one of P-town’s two main thoroughfares.

Much of what I write about in the mysteries comes close to being true, except for the so-called “main event.” It would not be too much of an exaggeration to say the books are memoirs of my vacations with a little murder thrown in. I certainly share many of Brad’s neuroses and can be just as goofy at times.

To learn more about the author or to purchase his works, visit Jeffrey Round.