READ the The Age/SMH REVIEW of Death in the Sauna – It’s leather night at Spartacus, a discreet London sauna that is a meeting place for gay men. It’s also two days before a Global AIDS Conference, and Pomfrey Lister, the eminent virologist, founder and President of the Global AIDS Trust, is lying naked and serenely dead in a cubicle with a half empty bottle of amyl nitrate in his hand. So begins Dennis Altman’s elegant whodunnit in which everyone, in true Agatha Christie mode, is a suspect … MORE

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On the eve of a major international AIDS Conference in London, the Conference chair is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Tracking down how he died reveals layers of deception, rivalry and danger for those close to him.

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‘Imagine Agatha Christie parachuting into the heady world of gay saunas and HIV research, and you’re getting close to this delicious, camp and tightly-plotted murder mystery.’ — BENJAMIN LAW – writer and broadcaster

‘Dennis Altman is a giant in academia and the gay rights movement, and with Death in the Sauna, he brings his insight and deft hand to a crime story that starts with a bang, so to speak, and leads us from the intrigues of a gay sauna into a tangled web of deception, rivalry and danger set against the backdrop of an international AIDS Conference. There could be no better author to take us into this story of secret lives, sexuality, politics and competing agendas. A searing and enjoyable read.’ — TARA MOSS – bestselling author of The War Widow, The Ghosts of Paris and The Fictional Woman

‘Altman’s novel has a unique setting, a tight plot, and is hugely entertaining. He keeps you guessing right to the end, and you’ll learn a lot along the way.’ — ROBERT GOTT – author of the William Power series of crime-caper novels

ABOUT DENNIS ALTMAN

Since his first book, Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation, Dennis Altman has written seventeen books, including Global Sex and Unrequited Love: Diary of an Accidental Activist.

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