The rose exterminator

By day, Glenn Symonds was a repected Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. By night, he was the undisputed master of southern California's gay S/M world in the mid-1960s. Which made it all the more shocking that his dead body should be found hanging upside down, encased in leather and chains, ritually castrated. Oddly enough, the questions were not so much who had done, but how had it come to be done--and why? Scott, the only man Symonds ever loved, searches for the answers in the extraordinary new novel by critically acclaimed novelist William Carney. -- adapted from jacket