The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey Review: A Gay Boy, and the Town He Touched
A 14-year-old boy is reported missing, and eventualy found dead. Chuck DeSantis, who worked the case as a tough-talking detective "in a half-ass town down the Jersey shore," begins to tell us the story as if it's a murder mystery, a film noir on stage ("The dark side is my beat.") But "The Absolute Brightness […]