Archive for the ‘Mystery’ Category
June 22nd, 2011 by Oddmonster / 837 views
Title: Final Rest 
Author: Mary Morell
Publisher: Spinster’s Ink
Length: Novel / 202 pages
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Blurb:
Loretta Millett is a woman of strong habits. One of those habits is cinnamon-sugar toast for breakfast every morning. Her predictability ultimately leads to her death when she unwittingly puts digitalis on her toast. It is definitely murder and the local sheriff fingers Meg Traeger for the murderer. After all, Meg not only took digitalis regularly but was in Lorretta’s apartment the night before her death — arguing. She had the motive, the means and the opportunity.
Amy Traeger, Meg’s niece, convinces her lover, police detective Lucia Ramos to accompany her to Alabama to engage in some off-duty sleuthing to clear her aunt of all charges. They soon uncover the full extent of Lorretta’s unpopularity and establish the likelihood that everyone touched by her could have reason to wish her dead. Establishing who did kill her proves to be much more complicated…
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May 30th, 2011 by DarienMoya / 520 views
Title: Sahara Blue 
Author: Jan Irving
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Length:230/pgs
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Blurb:
Seth Hollis lives his passions online under the pseudonym “Lotus” and attracts ex-Navy SEAL Sahara Blue, who avidly follows the erotic tales of passionate submission Seth posts. While they forge a powerful connection, it’s increasingly frustrating, because both men yearn for something real. Seth’s writings have also attracted an unwanted and dangerous admirer, and when the glass window of Seth’s shop is shattered one night, fate sends Sahara Blue to his rescue.
Unaware he has actually met Lotus, Sahara takes Seth under his wing, and that same mysterious and deep attraction flares to life. But Seth’s deranged stalker won’t let up, and Seth and Sahara will have to give up their secrets and learn to trust if they’re going to keep each other safe.
A spin-off of Mastering Toby.
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Posted in 3.5 stars, BDSM, Erotica, Gay, Mystery, Reviews, Romance | 2 Comments »
May 30th, 2011 by Oddmonster / 561 views
Title: Cemetery Murders
Author: Jean Marcy
Publisher: New Victoria Publishers
Length: Novel / 192 pages
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Blurb:
Meg Darcy, a dyke P.I., is hired to search for a serial killer who has dumped the bodies of homeless women in St. Louis cemeteries. At the grisly crime scene Meg runs into Sarah Lindstrom, an attractive but aloof City Police detective (known as The Ice Queen). Meg’s gay comrade-in-arms, Patrick, says Lindstrom is a classic closet case, and definitely not one for Meg to crack, but Meg is determined to find romance.
Torn between cooperation and competition, both Meg and Sarah let their personal passions interfere with their pursuit of the case as they strive to be the first to stop a killer.
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May 11th, 2011 by Oddmonster / 600 views
Title: Hot Lava 
Author: Rob Rosen
Publisher: Torquere Press
Length: 206 pages
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Blurb:
Multiple double-crosses and scams are afoot involving two scheming pimps, several rogue cops, dangerous Japanese businessmen, a cross-dressing lawyer, Mormon bad guys, and incarcerated drug dealers, all under the watchful surveillance of our heroes, Chase and Brandon, not to mention their drag alter-egos, Liza and Judy.
“Hot Lava” is a romantic comedy/murder mystery, as well as a laugh-out-loud funny and often deadly romp from one end of Oahu to the other. This heart-pounding thriller is about a dream vacation that quickly turns awry, with escaped convicts washing up on shore, bad guys scheming to do harm to our heroes, and sexy romps in unusual settings. It’s chock-full of witty banter and outlandish escapades, death and depravity, and friends, lovers, and other assorted crazy characters that fairly jump off the page. Take a vacation with Chase and Brandon and get yourself into Hot Lava!
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Posted in 2 stars, Action Adventure, Erotica, Gay, Mystery, Reviews | 1 Comment »
March 29th, 2011 by Kassa / 850 views
Title: Death by Misfortune 
Author: AM Riley
Publisher: MLR Press
Length: Novel (370 pgs)
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Blurb:
After a glamorous studio party, “Psychic to the Stars” Sylvie Black is found murdered in her fortune telling booth, a blood soaked tarot reading spread out before her. Shortly afterwards, the high-profile director who was about to produce Ms. Black’s ‘tell-all’ Hollywood screenplay, is found murdered as well.
Closeted Homicide detective, Bill Turner, and his partner, Kate Crandall, find themselves sorting through a cast of likely suspects, who all seem to have secrets worth killing for. They soon run up against the studio rumor mill, and Jeremy Reilly, a young studio AD determined to protect their prime suspect.
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Posted in 4.5 stars, Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Mystery, Reviews | 4 Comments »
March 23rd, 2011 by Jenre / 535 views
Title: Half Pass 
Author: Astrid Amara
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Length: 134 pdf pages
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Blurb:
He looks good on a horse, but it’s hard to love a man with a big ego and a small alibi.
Paul King’s inheritance is named Serenity Stables, but for him it’s far from serene. He has one plan for the crumbling facility: unload it as fast as possible. But two months on the market, and he’s still mucking stalls and dreaming of his old life back in San Francisco.
It doesn’t help that he seems to have misplaced a horse. Not just any horse—Tux, a million-dollar Warmblood who, despite lacking opposable thumbs, has an Olympic medal to its name. So does its Brazilian trainer, Estevan Souza, a man whose darkly sexual, smoldering glances almost make Paul forget his horse phobia.
Intriguing as Paul finds Estevan, distractions are piling up. The boarders are picky. The arena roof is leaking. His drunken cousin is wreaking havoc. Tux’s owners are threatening to sue. On top of that, a bucket of blood points to possible murder.
Suddenly, Estevan’s glances are looking more suspicious than sinful. And, if Paul can’t come up with a plan to save Tux, he could lose not only his chance with Estevan, but his life.
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Posted in 3.5 stars, Erotica, Gay, Mystery, Reviews, Romance | 2 Comments »
March 21st, 2011 by Oddmonster / 662 views
Title: The Kiss Murder
Author: Mehmet Murat Somer
Publisher: Penguin Books
Length: Novel, 245 pages
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Blurb:
As night falls over Istanbul, our heroine, a fabulous drag queen who is a dead ringer for Audrey Hepburn, heads out to her nightclub, one of the most popular hangouts in the city’s underworld. Impossibly chic and charming, she’s ready for anything, and when one of her employees ends up dead as the result of blackmail, she’ll need to use all of her wit and quick thinking — as well as her Thai kickboxing skills — to find the killers before they find her.
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March 14th, 2011 by DarienMoya / 920 views
Title: With Abandon 
Author: J.L Langley
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Length:Novel
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Blurb:
As heir to an old and proud heritage, Aubrey Reynolds works and lives for his family, his employees and his pack. Agreeing to watch after a visiting werewolf is no big deal—until he discovers the newcomer is his mate. His very male mate…which is a very big deal, indeed. Revealing his sexuality was never part of Aubrey’s well-ordered life plan.
Much as he loved caring for his eight younger brothers, Matt Mahihkan knows it’s time to grab the opportunity to attend college in Atlanta. Realizing Aubrey is his mate should have been a delightful experience…except Aubrey treats him more like a dirty little secret than a lover. Yet Matt is a patient man. Aubrey can’t stay in the closet forever. Can he?
In time, they settle into a comfortable, if complicated, routine. Until a rogue werewolf with an axe to grind forces Aubrey to add to the wedge of secrets driving him and Matt apart, leaving Matt exposed to danger…and Aubrey forced to choose between love and duty.
Product Warnings: Contains color abuse with a really bad sense of fashion, a southern accent from hell, sex on antique furniture, a pouncing playful werewolf, obnoxious siblings, liberal use of a color identifier and impatient sex. No lightning bugs were harmed in the making of this book.
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February 4th, 2011 by Emily / 221 views
Title: Fool on the Hill
Editor: Morgan Hunt
Publisher: Alyson Books
Length: Novel / 190 pgs
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Blurb:
When amateur sleuth and breast cancer survivor Tess Camillo discovers the body of her housemate’s favorite rock star—crucified—everyone’s shocked. After all, he seemed to have no enemies. Why would someone nail him to a cross? With quirky wit, Tess and her loopy hetero housemate Lana snoop Hollywood music producers, Lego Land, a church, and a carousel to solve the murder. Fool on the Hill zips along on a sometimes-poignant, sometimes-zany trajectory, slowing down only for zoo critters and erotic encounters.
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February 3rd, 2011 by Emily / 161 views
Title: Windows in Time
Editor: M. Jules Aedin
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Length: Novel / 234 pgs
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Blurb:
Fate added injury to insult when Jonah Sellers’s live-in boyfriend left him: while moving out his ex’s belongings, Jonah fell down the stairs and broke his leg. Now his house is a prison, and he’s working from home while his sister checks up on him. The only diversion in Jonah’s routine is catching the odd glimpse of a man in the apartment across the way taking off his clothes in front of the window.
But then Jonah is distracted by Liam Brooks, the nurse his sister sends over when she goes on vacation. As they dance around their growing attraction, Jonah and Liam begin to wonder about the man in the window. Why is he always dressed in the same clothes? Why is he there one minute and not the next? How is it that he lives in an old woman’s apartment? It’s while trying to answer these questions that they stumble across a fifty-year-old missing persons case they can’t resist trying to solve.
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