Book Review: ‘Devil’s Chew Toy: A Novel’ By Rob Osler

Hayden McCall is 25, a teacher and part-time blogger, weighs about 125 and has red hair and is gay. He just broke up with his latest and hits the local gay bar on a Friday night. For his efforts he gets a black eye courtesy of one of the dancers (it was an accident). Then the nice, hot dancer, named Camilo, takes Hayden home for a night of fun. The next morning Camilo is gone and the police are knocking on the door. Seems Camilo has vanished and no one seems to know where he is. Hayden is on the case looking for him, with two lesbian friends of Camilo, Burley and Hollister. The trail leads them to a pet store, an ex-boyfriend and finally to Camilo and what really happened to him and his family (who are dreamers as is Camilo). This is a well-written first book in this potential series. With some lol moments and a solid mystery, a cool bull terrier dog named Commander, readers will eat this up. Hopefully more adventues with this cast of characters will be coming.

You can pick up Devil’s Chew Toy in stores on Tuesday, February 8th from Crooked Lane.