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The French Have a Word for It
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
It's been ten years since Colin Lambert last saw Thomas Sullivan, his former bodyguard. Now Colin's all grown up and Thomas is in Paris for one evening. A sweet short story about second chances.A short story serving as a brief introduction to the Earthborn universe. In the far future a dark fog emerges that threatens the end of humanity. Gil Tungsten, born and raised within a world were mankind has united under a single government faces a decision changing the rest of his life. He and his wife can either flee from planet Earth by joining the Exodus fleet, or become part of those who will go beneath the surface to wait out the dark storm.
Merry Christmas, Darling (Holiday Codas)
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
In 2012 I began a holiday tradition of writing Christmas codas for some of my — and your — favorite stories. I ran the codas on my blog and left them up there for readers to enjoy all year round.Readers requested that I collect the codas and make them available digitally and in print, and I thought that was a fun idea, which is how you come to be reading this. I decided to add another ten new codas to the collection, as well as some recipes for cocktails and dishes that are either featured in the original works or seem to add some final comment or insight into the era or the characters or their relationship.Happiest of Holidays to you all. May this season be filled with love and laughter, and may the New Year bring you health and happiness.
Somebody Killed His Editor
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
For sixteen years reclusive mystery writer Christopher (Kit) Holmes enjoyed a very successful career, thanks to the popularity of elderly spinster sleuth, Miss Butterwith, and her ingenious cat, Mr. Pinkerton. But sales are down in everything but chick lit, and Christopher's new editor doesn't like geriatric gumshoes. It's a pink, pink world for Mr. Holmes. At the urging of his agent, Christopher reluctantly agrees to attend a mystery writers' conference at a remote Northern California winery. But no sooner does he arrive than he discovers the pajama-clad body of a woman in the woods. If nearly two decades of mystery-writing are anything to go by, the woman doesn't appear to have died a natural death. With a storm in full force and a washed-out bridge making it impossible for law enforcement to come to the rescue, it's practically like all those classic murder mysteries in isolated country manors that Christopher has been penning for sixteen years! If only Miss...
Old Poison (Dangerous Ground 2)
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Happy Birthday, Taylor! Taylor has pretty well recovered from his shooting, but not everyone is happy to see him reach his next birthday. Does a cobra pickled in a bottle of wine means someone cares enough to send the very death — best?
Mainly by Moonlight: Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
A gay high-society wedding. A stolen book of spells. A love-threatening lie.
Can a witch avoid a murder rap without revealing the supernatural truth?
Cosmo Saville guiltily hides a paranormal secret from his soon-to-be husband. Thanks to a powerful love spell, uncertainty threatens his nuptial magic. But when he’s suspected of killing a longtime rival, he could spend his honeymoon behind bars…
Police Commissioner John Joseph Galbraith never believed in Happily Ever After until Cosmo came along. Falling head over heels for the elegant antiques dealer is an enchantment he never wants to break. But when all fingers point to Cosmo’s guilt, John struggles to trust what his heart is telling him.
As Cosmo hunts for the missing grimoire among the arcane aristocracy, John’s doubts grow. With an unseen enemy threatening to expose Cosmo’s true nature, the couple’s blissful future could shatter like a broken charm.
Can Cosmo find the lost grimoire, clear his name, and keep John’s love alive, or will black magic “rune” their wedding bells?
The Boy with the Painful Tattoo (Holmes & Moriarity 3)
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
It's moving day at Chez Holmes. Somehow, against Kit's better instincts, he and J.X. are setting up house together. But while J.X. is off at a writing conference, Kit unpacks a crate that should contain either old books or new china. It doesn't. Within the mounds of green Styrofoam popcorn is a dead body. A very dead body.There goes the neighborhood.
Dangerous Ground, no. 1
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Special Agents for the Department of Diplomatic Security, Taylor MacAllister and Will Brandt have been partners and best friends for three years, but everything changed the night Taylor admitted the truth about his feelings for Will. But it's complicated...Taylor agreed to a camping trip in the High Sierras — despite the fact that he hates camping — because Will wants a chance to save their partnership. But the trip is a disaster from the first, and things rapidly go from bad to worse when they find a crashed plane and a couple of million dollars in stolen money.With a trio of murderous robbers trailing them, Will and Taylor are on dangerous ground, fighting for their partnership, their passion...and their lives.
Lament at Loon Landing
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Fakes, folk music, and ghost firesWhen legendary folk singer Lara Fairplay agrees to make her comeback debut at Pirate's Cove's annual maritime music festival, everyone in the quaint seaside village is delighted—including mystery bookstore owner and sometimes amateur sleuth, Ellery Page.Better yet, Lara is scheduled to perform a recently discovered piece of music attributed to "The Father of American Music," Stephen Foster, which will hopefully bring large crowds and a lot of business.Several mysterious accidents later, Ellery is less delighted as his suspicion grows that someone plans to silence the celebrity songbird forever.
Blood Heat (Dangerous Ground 3)
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Special Agents for the Department of Diplomatic Security, Taylor MacAllister and Will Brandt have been partners forever and lovers for three months, but their new relationship is threatened when Will is offered a plum two-year assignment in Paris.Will believes the posting only means postponing what they both want. Taylor fears that kind of separation will mean the end of their new and still-fragile relationship.It's a bad time to find themselves in the middle of the New Mexico wilderness responsible for the health and welfare of a suspected terrorist. Especially when everyone else they run into seems determined to see their prisoner — and them — dead.
All She Wrote
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
A murderous fall down icy stairs is nearly all she wrote for Anna Hitchcock, the "American Agatha Christie." The cry for help from his old mentor cuts short mystery author Kit Holmes' romantic weekend with his new lover J.X. Moriarity, and lands him an amateur sleuth gig in an elegant snowbound mansion in the Berkshires. Unfortunately, a clever killer is still one step ahead of Kit...
44.1644° North
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
The decades-old disappearance of twenty-one-year-old teaching student Deirdre O'Donnell is the Holy Grail for true-crime buffs—and Skylar Brennan, the host of the Ugly Town podcast, is no exception. In fact, on the mean streets of the internet, he's considered an expert on the case. (In law-enforcement circles, he's viewed as just another crackpot amateur sleuth.)Every February, the remote New Hampshire village of Woodlark holds a candlelight vigil for Deirdre. Family, friends, and "supporters" of the long-missing girl gather at the spot where she was last seen. This is Skylar's first vigil, and his fans are really looking forward to meeting him—though maybe not as much as the anonymous person who emailed him coordinates to Deirdre's grave.
I Buried a Witch
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Something old, something new, something borrowed...something blacker than the darkest night. Antiques dealer (and witch) Cosmo Saville adores his new husband, but his little white lies—and some very black magic—are about to bring his fairytale romance to an end. Someone is killing San Francisco's spellcasters—and the only person Cosmo can turn to—the man who so recently swore to love and cherish him—isn't taking his phone calls. The only magic Police Commissioner John Joseph Galbraith believes in is true love. Discovering he's married to a witch—a witch with something alarmingly like magical powers—is nearly as bad as discovering the man he loved tricked and deceived him. John shoulders the pain of betrayal and packs his bags. But when he learns Cosmo is in the crosshairs of a mysterious and murderous plot, he knows he must do everything in in his mortal power to protect him. Till Death do...
Murder at Pirate's Cove
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
<h1>First in an adorable new series!</h1> Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, Scrabble champion and guy-with-worst-luck-in-the-world-when-it-comes-to-dating, is ready to make a change. So when he learns he's inherited both a failing bookstore and a falling-down mansion in the quaint seaside village of Pirate's Cove on Buck Island, Rhode Island, it's full steam ahead! Sure enough, the village is charming, its residents amusingly eccentric, and widowed police chief Jack Carson is decidedly yummy (though probably as straight as he is stern). However, the bookstore is failing, the mansion is falling down, and there's that little drawback of finding rival bookseller—and head of the unwelcoming-committee—Trevor Maples dead during the annual Buccaneer Days celebration. Still, it could be worse. And once Police Chief Carson learns Trevor was killed with the cutlass hanging over the door of Ellery's bookstore, it is.
Mainly by Moonlight
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
A gay high-society wedding. A stolen book of spells. A love-threatening lie. Can a witch avoid a murder rap without revealing the supernatural truth? Cosmo Saville guiltily hides a paranormal secret from his soon-to-be husband. And if he can't undo a powerful love spell, uncertainty threatens his nuptial magic. But when he's arrested for allegedly killing a longtime rival, he could spend his honeymoon behind bars... Police Commissioner John Joseph Galbraith never believed in love until Cosmo came along. Falling head over heels for the elegant antiques dealer is an enchantment he never wants to break. So when all fingers point to Cosmo's guilt, John races to prove his fiancé's innocence before they take their vows. As Cosmo searches for the real killer among the arcane aristocracy, John warns him to leave it to the police. But with an unseen enemy threatening to expose Cosmo's true nature, the couple's blissful future could...
Footsteps in the Dark
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
The snick of a lock. The squeak of door hinges. The creak of a floorboard... Nothing is more mysterious than footsteps in the dark. Are those approaching steps that of friend or enemy? Lover or killer? Authors L.B. Gregg, Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon, Dal MacLean, Z.A. Maxfield, Meg Perry, C.S. Poe and S.C. Wynne join forces for Footsteps in the Dark, eight sexy and suspenseful novellas of Male/Male Mystery and Romance.
I Spy... Three Novellas
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
The complete I Spy series collected digitally for the first time.I Spy Something BloodyEspionage 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.I Spy Something WickedIt's All Hallow's Eve and Mark Hardwicke's past has come back to haunt him. The Old Man needs Mark to go on one last mission to the wild, lonely hills of Afghanistan—a mission Mark knows he can't survive. Even if he does make it back, Stephen has made it very clear Mark is out of second chances. Should Mark place his lover and his own happiness before duty?I Spy Something ChristmasNothing says Christmas like a bullet with your name on it. Mark is used to death and danger. Stephen will never be okay with violence—or...
Hide and Seek
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
For museum curator Andrew Allison, the sleepy little Maine village of Safehaven has always lived up to its name—until now. Fleeing an abusive relationship, Andy has returned to Safehaven for a few weeks while he figures out the future and helps his elderly Uncle Cuthbert run his antiques shop. But when Andy arrives, he learns Uncle Cuthbert is in the hospital, critically injured, the victim of a late-night break-in.
Worse, one of the first messages on the shop’s answering machine is from Marcus, Andy’s ex, demanding to know Andy’s whereabouts.
Nor does the bad news stop there. It seems whoever broke into Time in a Bottle is still looking for that mysterious whatever. Something they didn’t find the first time. Something they now believe Andy has.
Something worth killing for?
The good news is former bad boy Quinn Rafferty, Andy’s high school crush, is back in town and interested in renewing their acquaintanceship.
Quinn is not a man to run from things that go bump in the night, be they mysterious midnight prowlers or a relationship-shy, fish-out-of-water museum curator.
But Quinn has a few secrets of his own…
Kick Start (Dangerous Ground 5)
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Will is finally braced to bring Taylor home to meet the folks. Unfortunately, not every member of the Brandt clan loves Taylor the way Will does. Then again, not everyone loves the Brandts. In fact, someone has a score to settle — and too bad for any former DS agents who get in the way when the bullets start to fly.
Slay Ride
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
A wild and dangerous ride takes two lonely men into uncharted territory... 1943 Montana. Returning home to Montana after being wounded in the Pacific, Police Chief Robert Garrett was hoping for a little much needed Peace on Earth and Goodwill Toward Man. Instead, he finds himself chasing after a cold-blooded killer on Christmas Day aided—whether he likes it or not—by eager young reporter Jamie Jameson. Jamie has idolized Police Chief Garrett most of his life. Despite a stolen birthday kiss three years earlier, he knows his feelings are unreturned. Even if Rob felt the same, there's no room in their world for such feelings between men. But while Jamie can accept Robert not sharing his feelings, he won't put up with being treated like a troublesome kid brother. He too has a job to do, and he intends on traveling this bloody and twisted road with Robert Garrett—no matter where it leads
Lone Star
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Growing up in rural Texas, Mitchell Evans's ambition to be a dancer made him a target. Though he found success in New York City, Mitch is at a crossroads, and heads home for the first time in twelve years to figure things out. When what appears to be a reindeer jumps out in front of his car, he drives off the road and into the path of the one man he hoped to avoid. The last person Texas Ranger Web Eisley expects to see four days before Christmas is his first love. He hasn't seen Mitch since they quarreled over coming out to their friends and family years ago. Though he's not in the closet now, Web has worked hard for the respect of his fellow officers, but he still regrets the loss of Mitch in his life. And his bed. The attraction between them is as strong as ever, and it doesn't take long for the men to pick up where they left off. But is love enough to keep Mitch in town in the New Year? 26,000 words
The Monuments Men Murders: The Art of Murder 4
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Despite having attracted the attention of a dangerous stalker, Special Agent Jason West is doing his best to keep his mind on his job and off his own troubles.
But his latest case implicates one of the original Monuments Men in the theft and perhaps destruction of part of the world’s cultural heritage—a lost painting by Vermeer. Naval Reserve Lieutenant Commander Emerson Harley wasn’t just a World War II hero, he was the grandfather Jason grew up idolizing. In fact, Grandpa Harley was a large part of what inspired Jason to join the FBI’s Art Crime Team.
Learning that his legendary grandfather might have turned a blind eye to American GIs “liberating” priceless art treasures at the end of the war is more than disturbing. It’s devastating.
Jason is determined to clear his grandfather’s name, even if that means breaking a few rules and regulations himself—putting him on a collision course with romantic partner BAU Chief Sam Kennedy.
Meanwhile, someone in the shadows is biding his time…
Blind Side
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
<h1<It's a good problem to have</h1> More business than they can comfortably handle on their own. But with resources already overstretched, the last thing former DSS Agents and newbie security consultants Will Brandt and Taylor MacAllister need is another client—and the last thing Will needs is for that client to turn out to be an old boyfriend of Taylor's. Sure, Will has always known Taylor had a wild past, but he was kind of hoping he'd never have to sit down and have a beer with it. But golden boy Ashe Dekker believes someone is trying to kill him, and Taylor is determined to help, no matter what the cost. It's a little bit of a jolt to have Taylor for once totally disregard his feelings, but Will is equally determined that "the cost" won't be their relationship—or Taylor's life.
The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
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?
The Magician Murders
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Nothing up his sleeves. Nothing but murder... Jason West, hot-shot special agent with the FBI's Art Crime Team, is at the Wyoming home of Behavioral Analysis Unit Chief Sam Kennedy, recuperating from a recent hit-and-run accident, when he's asked to consult on the theft of a priceless collection of vintage magic posters. But before Jason can say "presto change-o," the owner of the art collection turns up murdered in a National Forest. When the dead man is revealed to be the Kubla Khanjurer, a much-hated part-time magician accused of revealing the highly guarded secrets of professional illusionists, it seems clear this is a simple revenge killing—until Jason realizes an earlier suspicious death at the trendy magic club Top Hat White Rabbit might be part of the same larger and more sinister pattern.
Fatal Shadows
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
One sunny morning Los Angeles bookseller and aspiring mystery author Adrien English opens his front door to murder. His old high school buddy (and employee) has been found stabbed to death in a back alley following a loud and very public argument with Adrien the previous evening.
Hell You Say (Adrien English Mysteries 3)
Lanyon, Josh
Bookseller Adrien English must contend with a mysterious Satanic cult, a hot handsome university professor, and his on-again/off-again relationship with closeted LAPD Homicide Detective Jake Riordan. And, oh, yes, murder....
Male/Male Mystery and Suspense Box Set: 6 Novellas
Lanyon, Josh
An incredible savings. This box set contains six complete bestselling mystery and suspense novellas by one of the leading authors of Male/Male crime and mystery fiction.
Death of a Pirate King (Adrien English Mysteries 4)
Lanyon, Josh
Gay bookseller and reluctant amateur sleuth Adrien English's writing career is suddenly taking off. But 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.
Fair Chance
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Fair Chance
By Josh Lanyon
Elliot Mills comes face-to-face with evil in this follow-up to Fair Game and Fair Play from bestselling author Josh Lanyon
One final game of cat and mouse…
Ex—FBI agent Elliot Mills thought he was done with the most brutal case of his career. The Sculptor, the serial killer he spent years hunting, is finally in jail. But Elliot’s hope dies when he learns the murderer wasn’t acting alone. Now everyone is at risk once again—thanks to a madman determined to finish his partner’s gruesome mission.
When the lead agent on the case, Special Agent Tucker Lance, goes missing, Elliot knows it’s the killer at work. After all, abducting the love of his life is the quickest way to hurt him.
The chances of finding Tucker are all but impossible without the help of the Sculptor—but the Sculptor is in no position to talk. Critically injured in a prison fight, he lies comatose and dying while the clock ticks down. Elliot has no choice but to play this killer’s twisted game and hope he can find Tucker in time.
This book is approximately 71,000 words
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The Mermaid Murders
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Special Agent Jason West is seconded from the FBI Art Crime Team to temporarily partner with disgraced, legendary "manhunter" Sam Kennedy when it appears that Kennedy's most famous case, the capture and conviction of a serial killer known as The Huntsman, may actually have been a disastrous failure.For The Huntsman is still out there...and the killing has begun again.
Jefferson Blythe, Esquire
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
In this fast, fun and dead-sexy male/male new-adult caper from multi-award-winning author Josh Lanyon, twentysomething Jefferson Blythe gets lost, gets found, falls in love and comes out...all in the span of one wild summerAfter his first relationship goes disastrously awry, Jeff Blythe uses his savings to tour Europe—the old-fashioned way. Armed with his grandfather's1960 copy of Esquire's Europe in Style, Jeff sets off looking for adventure but finds much, much more than he bargained for...In London, dodging questions from shady criminals about a mysterious package he most certainly does not have is simple. Losing the gunmen who are convinced he's someone else is not. And when George, an old friend, offers him help—and a place to stay, and perhaps something more—things become complicated.Is George really who he seems? And is Jeff finally ready to act on his attraction?From Paris to Rome and back again, Jeff and George fall for...
The Monet Murders
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
The last thing Jason West, ambitious FBI special agent with the Art Crimes Team wants — or needs — is his uncertain and unacknowledged romantic relationship with legendary Behavioral Analysis Unit Chief Sam Kennedy.And it seems like Sam is unsold on the idea as well.But personal feelings must be put aside when Sam requests Jason's help in order to catch a deranged killer targeting wealthy, upscale art collectors.
Dark Tide
Part #5 of "Adrien English Mysteries" series by Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
When a half-century old skeleton tumbles out of the wall in the midst of Cloak and Dagger Bookstore's renovation, Adrien turns to hot and handsome ex-lover Jake Riordan -- now out-of-the closet and working as a private detective.
Perfect Day
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Wyatt loves Grahaem. Grahaem is still in love with Jase. But things could be worse. They could be camping.Oh.
Halloween is Murder
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
When his enigmatic partner takes off on an annual fishing trip, City of Angeles gumshoe Barry Fitzgerald is left to handle an All Hallows' Eve kidnapping case on his own.The victim? A murdered millionaire's penny-pinching son and heir. The culprit? That's where it gets tricky. According to the missing man's sister, vampires are behind Patrick O'Flaherty's disappearance.Barry doesn't believe in ghosts, goblins or vampires, but when the case goes—literally—to hell...well, who you gonna call?
Merry Christmas, Darling (Holiday Codas)
Lanyon, Josh
In 2012 I began a holiday tradition of writing Christmas codas for some of my — and your — favorite stories. Happiest of Holidays to you all. May this season be filled with love and laughter, and may the New Year bring you health and happiness.
Dead Run (Dangerous Ground 4)
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
The boys are back in town — and Paris is burning!For Special Agents of the Department of Diplomatic Security, Taylor MacAllister and Will Brandt, the strain of a long distance relationship is beginning to tell after eleven months of separation. A romantic holiday could be just the thing to bridge the ever-growing distance, but when Taylor spots a terrorist from the 70s, long believed dead but very much alive, it's c'est la vie.Now instead of sipping wine and seeing the sights, the boys are chasing a wily and deadly foe through the graveyards and catacombs of Paris.Of course, it could always be worse — and soon it is.
So This is Christmas: The Adrien English Mysteries
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
God Help You Merry Gentlemen…
Arriving home early after spending Christmas in jolly old England, sometimes amateur sleuth Adrien English discovers alarming developments at Cloak and Dagger Books—and an old acquaintance seeking help in finding a missing boyfriend.
Fortunately, Adrien just happens to know a really good private eye…
Fatal Shadows
Lanyon, Josh
One sunny morning Los Angeles bookseller and aspiring mystery author Adrien English opens his front door to murder. His old high school buddy (and employee) has been found stabbed to death in a back alley following a loud and very public argument with Adrien the previous evening.
Snowball in Hell
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
SUMMARY:
Los Angeles, 1943Reporter Nathan Doyle had his reasons to want Phil Arlen dead, but when he sees the man's body pulled from the La Brea tar pit, he knows he'll be the prime suspect. He also knows that his life won't stand up to intense police scrutiny, so he sets out to crack the case himself.Lieutenant Matthew Spain's official inquiries soon lead him to believe that Nathan knows more than he's saying. But that's not the only reason Matt takes notice of the handsome journalist. Matt's been drawn to men before, but he must hide his true feelings—or risk his entire career.As Nathan digs deeper, it becomes increasingly difficult to stay one step ahead of Matt Spain—and to deny his intense attraction to him. Nathan's secrets may not include murder, but has his hunt put him right in the path of the real killer? Previously published, newly revised by author.44,490 words
Christmas Waltz
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
In 2012 I began a holiday tradition of writing holiday codas for some of my — and your — favorite stories. I ran the codas on my blog and left them up there for readers to enjoy all year round.At the request of readers, I collected the codas in an expanded and edited edition which I published in 2015 as Merry Christmas, Darling.Since then I've written an additional twenty-one codas, so it seems about time to do another collection. As before, I'm including recipes for cocktails and dishes that are either featured in the original works or seem to add some final comment or insight into the era or the characters or their relationship.
Death of a Pirate King
Part #4 of "Adrien English Mysteries" series by Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Gay bookseller and reluctant amateur sleuth Adrien English's writing career is suddenly taking off. But 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.
Short Stories
Lanyon, Josh
The much-requested digital collection of Josh’s most popular short stories written between 2007 and 2013.
Dangerous Thing
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
In this second LA-based adventure, bookseller Adrien English arrives at the Pine Shadow Ranch (left to him by a beloved grandmother) to find a corpse in his driveway. But by the time the unfriendly local sheriffs arrive, the body has disappeared.
Dark Tide (Adrien English Mysteries 5)
Lanyon, Josh
When a half-century old skeleton tumbles out of the wall in the midst of Cloak and Dagger Bookstore's renovation, Adrien turns to hot and handsome ex-lover Jake Riordan -- now out-of-the closet and working as a private detective.
Murder Takes the High Road
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Librarian Carter Matheson is determined to enjoy himself on a Scottish bus
tour for fans of mystery author Dame Vanessa Rayburn. Sure, his ex, Trevor, will also be
on the trip with his new boyfriend, leaving Carter to share a room with a stranger, but
he can’t pass up a chance to meet his favorite author. Carter’s roommate turns out to be
John Knight, a figure as mysterious as any character from Vanessa’s books. His strange
affect and nighttime wanderings make Carter suspicious. When a fellow traveler’s death
sparks rumors of foul play, Carter is left wondering if there’s anyone on the tour he
can trust. Drawn into the intrigue, Carter searches for answers, trying to fend off his
growing attraction toward John. But as unexplained tragedies continue, the whole tour
must face the fact that there may be a murderer in their midst—but who?
Dangerous Thing
Lanyon, Josh
In this second LA-based adventure, bookseller Adrien English arrives at the Pine Shadow Ranch (left to him by a beloved grandmother) to find a corpse in his driveway. But by the time the unfriendly local sheriffs arrive, the body has disappeared.
Hell You Say
Part #3 of "Adrien English Mysteries" series by Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Bookseller Adrien English must contend with a mysterious Satanic cult, a hot handsome university professor, and his on-again/off-again relationship with closeted LAPD Homicide Detective Jake Riordan. And, oh, yes, murder....
Stranger on the Shore
Josh Lanyon
Mystery & Thrillers / Gay & Lesbian / Literature & Fiction
Twenty years ago, little Brian Arlington was kidnapped from his family’s
Long Island estate and was never seen again. The trail went cold, but investigative
journalist Griff Hadley has always thought there was more to the story—much more. When
the Arlingtons’ patriarch invites him to stay at their estate to research his true crime
book, Griff can’t say no. It’s the story of a lifetime. But not everyone is happy about
Griff’s presence. Relatives and staff alike regard him coldly, including Pierce Mather,
the Arlingtons’ attractive lawyer, who is more than a little wary of Griff’s motives.
When a stranger shows up claiming to be the long-lost Brian, Griff and Pierce are united
in their suspicions. Startled to have found an ally in the buttoned-up lawyer, Griff
soon realizes it’s hard to keep a professional distance. Even in the midst of a
groundbreaking investigation, even in the face of a shocking family
secret...