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Still reeling from an accident that left his face scarred, Joey avoids as much contact with other people as possible.  But when Joey meets a blind violinist, they both discover that together and with love, they can both break down the boundaries they’ve set for themselves. More...

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Mystery titles

  THE ADRIEN ENGLISH MYSTERIES by Josh Lanyon 

Combines the first two Adrien English novels, FATAL SHADOWS and A DANGEROUS THING in one temptingly priced ebook!

THE ASTRAL: TILL THE DAY I DIE by V. J. Banis  Shot while trying to prevent the kidnapping of her daughter, Catherine Desmond has a "tunnel-of-light" experience. "There is something only you can do," the spirits tell her, and she is returned intact to her former life - or is she? When she recovers, Catherine finds herself gifted, or cursed, with astral projection and to her dismay finds herself linked psychically with her daughter's murderer. But he too can project himself and he begins stalking her as well, setting in motion an ethereal cat-and-mouse game with life - and death - hanging in the balance!

BEACH READING by Mark Abramson 

BONES OF SUMMER, THE (contemporary) by Anne Brooke

COLD SERIAL MURDER by Mark Abramson 

  A DANGEROUS MAN by Anne Brooke

 A DANGEROUS THING by Josh Lanyon 

Bookseller Adrien English arrives at the Pine Shadow Ranch to find a corpse in his driveway. But by the time the unfriendly local sheriffs arrive, the body has disappeared.Who are the mysterious strangers excavating on his land? And will he sort out his problems with LAPD Detective Jake Riordan, heavily into S/M sex but not so hot on relationships?

 THE DARK HORSE by Josh Lanyon

Paul Hammond is dead. That’s what tough and sexy LAPD Detective Daniel Moran tells his lover, Hollywood actor Sean Fairchild—and Sean wants to believe him, but what about those threatening postcards in Hammond’s handwriting? What about the fact that he’s seeing Hammond everywhere he goes? Yes, Sean’s had some emotional problems in the past, but that was a long time ago and he’s not imagining things, so why is Dan looking at him that way?

 DARK WATERS by Chris Quinton. Murders, a mystery and a dangerous shapeshifter.

DEADLY NIGHTSHADE by Victor J. Banis  Take one straight cop, one gay cop, and a beautiful drag queen they nickname The Deadly Nightshade, mix them all together and things qre quickly sizzling. SFPD homicide detectives Tom Danzel and Stanley Korsky tour the city within the city - the underground world of the cross dresser and the gay clubs, hot in pursuit of a sexy serial killer who starts out blowing her johns and ends up blowing them away. # 1 in the Deadly Mystery Series

  DEADLY WRONG by Victor J. Banis  San Francisco Homicide Inspector Stanley Korski is on administrative leave when an old chum calls. Her brother has been arrested on a manslaughter charge. Could Stanley come to Bear Mountain and investigate. A perfect vacation, expenses paid, with no reminders of his unrequited love for fellow detective Tom Danzel. And, what danger could there be? This wasn't even a murder, just a tragic accident. Wrong, Stanley. Deadly Wrong. # 2 in the Deadly Mystery Series

DEADLY DREAMS by Victor J. Banis  Partners in peril. Stanley thinks he's being stalked- but by whom, and why? Tom is determined to protect Stanley - but from what? Or is it really Tom who's being stalked? There are clues, to be sure, but they're like trying to gather bits of mist, like chasing ghosts: words of love, left unsaid; a long ago injustice; a vanished child; a man embittered. Memories, yes, but which of them are rea? Or is it all only dreams? Deadly Dreams? # 3 in the Deadly Mystery Series

DEADLY SLUMBER by Victor J. Banis   "The House of the Dead." A pseudo Italian palazzo at the edge of the Castro, Bartholomew's Mortuary had been a bordello at one time in its checkered past, its rooms filled with bodies in lust. Now it is filled with bodies at slumber. But not all the bodies at Bartholomew's are dead, and not all the dead are sleeping peacefully. Called in to investigate, Stanley and Tom follow a torurous path that leads to depravity and death. Coffins, coffins everywhere - and one of them has Stanley's name on it. Deadly Slumber indeed. # 4 in the Deadly Mystery Series

DEATH OF A PIRATE KING by Josh Lanyon

When murder makes an appearance at a dinner party, who should be called in but Adrien's former lover, handsome closeted detective Jake Riordan, now a Lieutenant with LAPD -- which may just drive Adrien's new boyfriend, sexy UCLA professor Guy Snowden, to commit a murder of his own.

   DEEPER BLUE by A.J. Llewellyn

Tracy Costantino accepts the task of tutoring Marjo, a troubled little girl whose father has rented a house in the remote, but picturesque Greek island town of Molivos. But this is no Mediterranean paradise…someone is trying to abduct Marjo.

Increasingly confused by his tumultuous relationship with Benoit, Tracy fights the urge to flee. He’s bonded with Marjo and fears leaving her to the increasing danger from unseen, sinister forces swirling around her. With Benoit shut away working all the time, Tracy believes he is the only one who can protect Marjo. Unwilling to leave, yet rejected by Benoit, Tracy needs to decide if this is what he’s been looking for…if this is his love, love of a different color…a deeper blue…

 

DIVAS LAS VEGAS by Rob Rosen

What happens when you find out that Grandma's vase mistakenly sold at a yard sale is worth tens of thousands of dollars—and somebody else is about to cash in on it on Antiques Roadshow? Of course, you hop on a plane with your best friend and race off to Las Vegas to get Grandma's vase back! Filled with action and suspense, hunky blackjack dealers, divine drag queens, strange sex, and sex in strange places, plus a Federal agent or two, Divas Las Vegas puts the sin in Sin City. A fun, new take on the murder mystery genre, Rob Rosen's Divas Las Vegas is a hilarious, touching, and compulsively readable page turner!

DON'T LOOK BACK by Josh Lanyon

 Peter Killian, curator at Constantine House in Los Angeles, wakes in the hospital to find himself accused of stealing a Tenth Century Chinese sculpture. Peter knows he’s not a thief -- but that’s all he knows. Why is hot and handsome Detective Mike Griffin so sure he’s guilty -- and so bent on seeing Peter arrested?

DOWNTIME by Tamara Allen 

 FATAL SHADOWS by Josh Lanyon, reviewed by Aricia 

Adrien English's old high school buddy has been found stabbed to death in a back alley following a loud and very public argument with Adrien the previous evening.Naturally the cops want to ask Adrien a few questions; they are none too impressed with his answers, and when a few hours later someone breaks into Adrien's shop and ransacks it, the law is inclined to think Adrien is trying to divert suspicion from himself.Adrien knows better. Adrien knows he is next on the killer's list.

  FREEMAN by Clare London

Freeman's return to the city is quiet, without fuss -- the way he likes things. But, he's missed by more people than he thought: his ex-wife, his ex-lover, and his ex-business partner. One wants friendship, another one intimacy. The third just wants him the hell gone again.

Freeman -- private, controlled -- hasn't time or appetite for trouble. But, when he strikes up an unusual, ill-advised friendship with young, lively, amoral Kit, it seems trouble's come looking for both men, ready to expose secrets that can destroy the fragile trust they've built. Freeman's more ready for the challenge than anyone realizes when the choice comes down to peace or Kit's life.

 

GEOGRAPHY OF MURDER by P.A. Brown

THE GHOST WORE YELLOW SOCKS by Josh Lanyon (reviewed by Aricia) 

His romantic weekend in ruins, shy twenty-something artist Perry Foster learns that things can always get worse when he returns home from San Francisco to find a dead body in his bathtub. A dead body in a very ugly sportscoat -- and matching socks. The dead man is a stranger to Perry, but that's not much of a comfort; how did a strange dead man get in a locked flat at the isolated Alton Estate in the wilds of the "Northeast Kingdom" of Vermont? Perry turns to help from "tall, dark and hostile" former navy SEAL Nick Reno -- but is Reno all that he seems?

  GOODBYE, MY LOVER by Victor J. Banis  Twenty-year-old Dennis Eastman has a choice to make: either entre the U.S. Naval Academy or find some other course in life. He decides to spend his final month of freedom in Los Angeles with his old mentor and lover, Lincoln Gardner, hoping to find some answers. But Linc fails to meet him at the airport and when Dennis enters his friend's apartment in Beverly Hills, he's promptly confronted by the police: Gardner has been brutally murdered! Dennis must now search for vindication through the sleazy underground bars and gay nightclubs of Southern California, while a vile killer begins looking for young, new prey!

 GROUND ZERO by Mel Keegan

In the winter of 2048 the city of Adelaide, South Australia suffers a series of bizarre murders, robberies at high-tech labs – and a virus which sprang from nowhere. The three are intimately connected in a mystery that will astonish. Lee Ronson and Brendan Scott find themselves  taking point in an investigation filled with unexpected hazard - and reward. Sexy very-near-future gay action/adventure from the pen of the maestro. More...

THE HELL YOU SAY by Josh Lanyon 

In the third in the popular Adrien English series, the "ill-starred and bookish" mystery writer has to contend with a Satanic cult, a handsome university professor and his on-again/off-again relationship with the eternally conflicted LAPD Detective Jake Riordan.

And, oh, yes, murder... *LAMBDA FINALIST*

 HIS GIFT by Clare London

Steven Macklin wakes up in a ditch one morning in foul, wet weather with no idea where he is or how he came to be there.  He’s seriously injured but struggles across bleak heathland to find shelter.  The only house he can find appears weather-beaten and deserted, although he’s too sensible a guy to fall for the cliché of a spooky ghost mansion - isn’t he?  But when he collapses and is taken into the house by the handsome Eliot, he finds himself in a very disturbing situation - and also in the bed of this strange, very possessive man.

 

HOLD TIGHT by Christopher Bram

THE JADE OWL by Edward C. Patterson (reviewed by Aricia)

  Kenny's Back by Victor J. Banis  Kenny walked into the old farm house as if he'd never been away, as if nothing he'd done had ever shattered their reputations. But was this the real Kenny, the man who had disappeared into the night five years earlier? He certainly wasn't behaving like it. Mar had to find out for sure - and he had to know if this was the same man he'd love all those years ago!

 L. A. BONEYARD by P. A. Brown
From a shallow grave in Griffith Park, to the bucolic streets of West Hollywood into the dark heart of the gang-infested streets of East L.A, evil is pursued in this dark story of passion and redemption.

 L. A. BYTES by P. A. Brown
Los Angeles' Ste. Anne's Medical Center has been hacked by a brilliant, malicious cracker. Can Chris and David stop him in time? Or will a digital Armageddon descend on the city of Angels? At what cost to the two lovers?

 L.A. HEAT by P. A. Brown
In-the-closet detective, David Eric Laine has kept his desires secret. Until he meets Christopher Bellamere, proud and openly gay. When a series of horrific torture/murders of gay men leads the police to Chris David is torn between his attraction for the most beautiful man he's ever met and his fears that he's a vicious killer.  

 L. A. MISCHIEF by P. A. Brown
When David gets hurt in the line of duty Chris goes to see him. Can they pick up where they left off, or are they just reaching for something that just isn’t there?

  LESSONS IN LOVE (Edwardian) Charlie Cochrane

Cambridge 1905: Jonty Stewart and Orlando Coppersmith are as contrasting a pair as you could find. Naturally, opposites attract but they find their illicit romance is threatened by a series of murders aimed at homosexual students.

  LESSONS IN DESIRE (Edwardian) Charlie Cochrane

Jersey, 1906: Jonty has at last prised Orlando out of the college and off on holiday. They encounter another murder and find themselves suffering the unwanted attentions of both an admirer and the police.

   LESSONS IN DISCOVERY (Edwardian) Charlie Cochrane

Cambridge, 1906: Orlando suffers an accident which robs him of all his memories of the past year. Jonty has to woo him all over again, while helping him solve an age old mystery which threatens the honour of St Bride's college. 

  LESSONS IN POWER (Edwardian) Charlie Cochrane

Cambridge 1907: After settling in their new home, Cambridge dons Orlando Coppersmith and Jonty Stewart are looking forward to nothing more exciting than teaching their students and playing rugby. Their plans change when a friend asks their help to clear an old flame who stands accused of murder.

 LESSONS IN SEDUCTION (Edwardian) by Charlie Cochrane

1907: The suspected murder of the king’s ex-mistress is Cambridge dons Orlando Coppersmith and Jonty Stewart’s most prestigious case yet. And the most challenging, since clues are as hard to come by as the killer’s possible motive.

 LESSONS IN TEMPTATION (Edwardian) by Charlie Cochrane 

Bath 1907

For friends and lovers Orlando Coppersmith and Jonty Stewart, a visit to Bath starts out full of promise. While Orlando assesses the value of some old manuscripts, Jonty plans to finish his book of sonnets. Nothing exciting…until they are asked to investigate the mysterious death of a prostitute.

LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS by Josh Lanyon

Recovering from a near fatal accident, artist Finn Barret returns to Seal Island in Maine to rest and recuperate. But Seal Island is haunted with memories, some sweet, some sad; three years ago Finn found his lover in the arms of Fitch, Finn's twin brother. Since that day, Finn has seen neither Conlan nor Fitch. In fact, no one has seen Fitch...  

  MALONEY'S LAW by Anne Brooke

     MATTER OF TIME, A, by Mary Calmes

 MEMORY OF DARKNESS by P. A. Brown
Can Wager stop the killers and reconcile with his son or will he end up being the next victim? Betrayed by friends, beset by his own conscience that has come back late in life with a vengeance, and the need to redeem himself, he battles the ruthless mob in the only way he knows how: with cunning and a total disrespect for the law. 

MEXICAN HEAT by Laura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon 

Tough, street-smart SFPD Detective Gabriel Sandalini is willing to do whatever it takes to bring down West Coast crime boss Ricco Botelli --including a dangerous, deep undercover gig as one of Botelli's hired guns. But Gabriel's best laid plans may come crashing down around him when he falls hard for Antonio Lorenzo, the sexy, suave lieutenant of a rival Mexican drug lord.  Turns out Antonio may have a few secrets of his own: secrets that could destroy both men and the fragile bond between them.

 MURDER ON CAMAC by Joseph R.G. DeMarco *LAMBDA FINALIST*

  NOCTURNE (vampire) by Mel Keegan  

  OCEAN BREEZE, LITTLE SQUEEZE by Jenna Byrnes

Big X, little x, question mark, dot. Ocean breeze, little squeeze. The child’s rhyme runs through Lucas Sinclair’s mind. He can still feel the light play of his sister’s fingers across his back, dancing along to the words. Unsettling, considering his twin, Laurie, had been abducted fifteen years earlier and never heard from again. With a therapist trying to help him, and a private investigator who can’t seem to let go of the past, Lucas confronts his demons. He’s not sure where his sexy next-door neighbor fits in, but Tristan Conner seems to know a lot more than he’s telling. Someone is terrorizing Lucas. Can it really be Laurie—or worse yet, one of the three men he’s come to trust?

  PAINTING FROM LIFE by Anne Brooke 

PARTNERS IN CRIME 1 - Sarah Black and Josh Lanyon

Cards on the Table
Fifty years ago a glamorous Hollywood party ended in murder-the only clue a bloody Tarot card. Timothy North is trying to find out what happened that long ago summer's night, but when a Tarot card turns up pinned to his front door, the only person Tim can turn to for help is his ex-lover, Detective Jack Brady.

Murder at the Heartbreak Hotel
Peter Moon, proprietor of a charming little get-away in the Land of the Midnight Sun, finds himself headed for less comfortable accommodations when he's accused of murder. Then his personal heartbreak showed up, fresh from six months in a Yukon River fish camp, determined to help.

PARTNERS IN CRIME 2 - Sarah Black and Josh Lanyon

Death of a Blues Angel by Sarah Black. It's Christmas, 1966. Deacon Davis is a veteran black reporter of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. But he doesn't know what to expect when three old men, legends of the Blues, bring a new Blues guitar out of Mississipi, and he's so white he glows. Rafael Hurt is hiding a dangerous secret, and the old men are trying to keep him safe. Then a young girl is murdered during Rafe's first gig at the Blues Angel. Rafe and Deke try to find the killer before the secrets around them lead more bloodshed to their door, and destroy any chance for the love growing between them

Snowball in Hell by Josh Lanyon. It's 1943 and the world is at war. Reporter Nathan Doyle is just back from the European Theater when he's asked to cover the murder of a society blackmailer--a man who, Homicide Detective Matthew Spain believes, Nathan had every reason to want dead.

PARTNERS IN CRIME 3 - Sarah Black and Josh Lanyon

I Spy Something Bloody
Espionage was always a game, but now British spy Mark Hardwicke wants to retire and settle down with ex-lover Dr. Stephen Thorpe -- if Stephen will have him. Unfortunately, Stephen has other plans -- and so do the terrorists who want Mark dead.

Murder At Black Dog Springs
Code-talker Logan Kee returns to his home on the Navajo Reservation from the battlefields of Saipan. But a new battle is waiting for him. Uranium mining has begun within the four sacred mountains. When the old hand-trembler dies at Black Dog Springs, rumors fly that Leetso, the yellow monster, has been set free to walk the land.

PARTNERS IN CRIME 4 - Josh Lanyon and Jordan Castillo Price 

Lovers and Other Strangers by Josh Lanyon Recovering from a near fatal accident, artist Finn Barret returns to Seal Island in Maine to rest and recuperate. But Seal Island is haunted with memories, some sweet, some sad; three years ago Finn found his lover in the arms of Fitch, Finn's twin brother. Since that day, Finn has seen neither Conlan nor Fitch. In fact, no one has seen Fitch.

Body Art by Jordan Castillo Price His lover has betrayed and swindled Ray Carlucci out of everything he valued, including a tattoo business. Hounded by creditors, weary of heart, he accepts the job of chauffeur and body man for the dying owner of a remote estate. The island, minus its wealthy summer colony, is colorless in winter and Ray thinks he understands why staff on the estate periodically desert. But, he's baffled by, then drawn to, Anton, the eccentric artist who haunts the forest, bringing strange life to bizarre and disquieting sculptures amidst the ice and trees. When the body of a man who once held Ray's job rises from the frosty earth, Ray wonders what part Anton's wildness has in the escalating violence.

PRIMAL RED by Nicole Kimberling

SNOWBALL IN HELL by Josh Lanyon 

It's 1943 and the world is at war. Reporter Nathan Doyle is just back from the European Theater when he's asked to cover the murder of a society blackmailer--a man who, Homicide Detective Matthew Spain believes, Nathan had every reason to want dead.

SOMEBODY KILLED HIS EDITOR by Josh Lanyon 

The road back to bestsellerdom can be deadly.

Thanks to an elderly spinster sleuth and her ingenious cat, Christopher Holmes has enjoyed a celebrated career as a bestselling mystery writer. Until now. On the advice of his agent, he reinvents his fortyish, frumpy, recently dumped self into the sleek, sexy image of a literary lion, and heads for a Northern California writers conference to try and resurrect his career. A career nearly as dead as the body he stumbles over in the woods. A ruthless, stalking killer, or a hot, handsome ex-lover. Which poses the greater danger? It?s elementary, my dear Holmes!

 SWEET FLAG, THE by Jeanne Barrack
Brandon Keats is a paranormal investigator, specializing in Civil War phenomena. As a gay man, he’s searched for years for evidence of gay paranormal activity. When he finally finds what he believes to be an example of this, he decides to confront the ghost of a homosexual Civil War soldier at the grave where he’s been sighted.  Ron Tayvail has guarded the grave of Matthew Hardesty for years. When he learns of Brandon’s interest in the legend of “The Vigilant Soldier”, he’s determined to dissuade him from any deeper investigation. He didn’t realize that he’d fall in love with the fellow on first sight. And yearn to become his lover. For always.

  TALES FROM C.A.M.P. - Jackie's Back! by Victor J. Banis  This second presentation of the adventures of legendary Jackie Holmes, star of the first gay mystery series dating back to the 1960s, will be welcomed by readers of all  varieties, including cultural and literary historians. Tales From C.A.M.P. - Jackie's Back! carries the spirit that led to Stonewall and is part of the foundation of contemporary gay writing.  Drewey Wayne Gunn, author of The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film

  TWILIGHT by Mel Keegan (vampire)
Mel Keegan returns to the voluptuous realm of vampyre and changeling. Madness and murder once again haunt Vince Bantry and Michael Flynn. England, 1905: A new century -- and for both changeling and vampyre, the challenge is to survive in this new world. The automobile, the telephone and forensic medicine complicate the difficult lives of the Children of the Night. The vampyre travel rarely; their beloved changelings must be more cautious than ever. A newspaper carries a disturbing story which makes terrible sense to Vince and Michael. Changelings are perishing -- others have vanished. Who is murdering, and why? And what of the ?bad boy,? blond, handsome Nicholas Crane, whose profligate reputation is a legend? He was last seen with changeling woman before both disappeared, and a turmoil of blood, deceit and fear began. More... 

 Uncorked by Andrew Grey

THE WHITE KNIGHT by Josh Lanyon

(Prequel and sequel to THE DARK HORSE) Actor Sean Fairchild has a not-so-secret admirer: a psycho stalker who thinks taking out the sexy, shy young actor will leave the world a better place. His manager insists Sean needs protection, and Sean’s beginning to think he’s right.It’s a Hollywood cliché: the hot and handsome bodyguard. But in the case of LAPD Detective Daniel Moran, it’s all true. Dan is everything Sean ever wanted in a leading man, but Dan’s kind of an old-fashioned guy. It’s his job to keep Sean safe and in one piece -- happy is someone else’s problem.

  WICKED GENTLEMEN by Ginn Hale

 

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