Archive for the ‘Mystery’ Category
February 2nd, 2011 by Jenre / 638 views
Title: Boystown 2: Three Nick Nowak Mysteries 
Author: Marshall Thornton
Publisher: Torquere Press
Length: 251 pages
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Blurb: In the second Boystown collection, Chicago private investigator Nick Nowak finds himself involved with a young man who murdered his stepfather but refuses to assist in his own defense, hired to find the murderer of a dead porno star, and, in a case that traps him between the two men he loves, searching for a serial killer’s only living victim. Set in the second half of 1981, Boystown 2 follows Nick as he juggles his deepening relationship with Detective Bert Harker with the return of his ex, Daniel Laverty. Which man will he choose? Or will he be able to choose?
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January 24th, 2011 by Jenre / 658 views
Title: Boystown: Three Nick Nowak Mysteries 
Author: Marshall Thornton
Publisher: Torquere Press
Length: 144 pages
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Blurb: A former police officer turned private investigator, Nick Nowak is haunted by his abrupt departure from the department, as well as, the traumatic end of his relationship with librarian Daniel Laverty. In these three stories set in Chicago during the early eighties, Nick locates a missing young man for a mysterious client, solves a case of arson at a popular nightspot, and goes undercover to prove a dramatic suicide was actually murder.
When he isn’t detecting, and sometimes when he is, Nick moves through a series of casual relationships. But his long suppressed romantic side surfaces when he meets Detective Bert Harker. Will he give love another chance? Or, will he continue to bury himself in the arms of strangers.
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January 11th, 2011 by Emily / 370 views
Title: Secrets and Sins
Author: Rosalyn Wraight
Publisher: Don’t Waste Daylight
Length: Novel / 168 pgs
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Blurb:
Book 2 in the Detective Laura McCallister Mystery Series
The day before lesbian detective Laura McCallister’s vacation, an elderly man, Tobias Faraday, is found dead in his estate, a victim of an apparent poisoning. While all the evidence clearly points in one direction, a deathly cold hand, clenched to her shoulder, steers her in another. She is led through a maze of riddles and codes, secrets and sins.
She looks into Faraday’s cloudy eyes with a vow to determine the truth. What she didn’t expect is that he would end up peering into her own. The investigation becomes excruciatingly personal, leaving her struggling to face her own secrets and sins.
Who killed Tobias Faraday? Is it really as simple as it seems? And what does the painting in his sitting room—crafted by her lover of ten years, Holly Crawford—have to do with it all? Can she solve the mystery without getting mired down in her own fears and pain? And, can she do it in time for her and Holly to catch that plane to Maine?
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November 24th, 2010 by Ami / 448 views
Title: Friday Night Jamie 
Author: Bren Christopher
Publisher: Loose-ID
Length:: Novella / 132 Pages
Buy the book: Ebook
Blurb:
Jamie Morgan is a CPA at Brooks and Stillman Accounting Services, New York. He has a regular schedule in life — weekdays, he will be working. Fridays will be the time to go out to the club and have fun. Saturdays will be time to recover from Friday nights, doing grocery or laundry. He also has an ideal dream man, someone with stability — someone like Keith Brooks, the VP Marketing at the same office. Then one Friday night, he hooks up with Matt, a stranger with long dark hair, rough hand, and in between jobs. The sex is hot but Matt is not his dream man. Things change when Jamie discovers something weird in an account he handles — then suddenly his life is turned upside down with his apartment being broken into, his boss being murdered, and two FBI agents coming into his life saying that his company might be involved in money laundry for the mafia. And suddenly, the stranger Matt, seems to be the only one Jamie can trust.
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October 27th, 2010 by DarienMoya / 459 views
Title: Home 
Author: William Neale
Publisher: MLR Press
Length:213pages
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Blurb:
Lucas Reed is a Cleveland advertising executive who returns to his southern hometown to deal with the sudden death of his estranged homophobic father. There, he unexpectedly encounters Rogan James, the former high school bully and now local deputy chief of police who had once made Lucas’s life miserable.
Reacquainted 12 years later, the two finally acknowledge a long held powerful physical attraction that quickly evolves into an even stronger emotional connection
But all this becomes secondary when a local reporter’s secret obsession for Rogan threatens not only the end of their newly found love, but their very lives.
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October 21st, 2010 by Kassa / 2,463 views
Title: Prove a Villain 
Author: K.C. Warwick
Publisher: Cheyenne Publishing (print); Bristlecone Pine Press (ebook)
Length: Novel / 80k words
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Blurb:
Having returned to Elizabethan London after an absence of two years, Hugh Seaton is happy to resume his old job as tailor to the company of actors known as Strange’s Men.
He is less content when he finds himself looking for a murderer, and hiding his former lover, playwright Christopher Marlowe, who is suspected of stabbing one of the players to death. Marlowe wants to resume their relationship, but Hugh has doubts about the wisdom of this, especially as he has already decided to find himself a wife and family rather than risk his soul with the dangerous and disreputable Marlowe.
To complicate matters, the young actor, Barnaby Winter, also has his sights set on Hugh and seems determined to win him. Hugh’s enquiries, together with his efforts to keep Marlowe out of the hands of the law, cause him difficulties that threaten not only the lives of both men, but also the fragile relationship between them. Hugh also finds unexpected help from Marlowe’s newest rival, a young playwright named Will, who is trying to make a name for himself in the theater world.
Seeking the truth about the murder becomes the least of Hugh’s worries, as he tries to decide where his affections lie, and in the process learns more about Marlowe than he wants to know.
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September 1st, 2010 by junkfoodmonkey / 562 views
Title: Blinded by Our Eyes 
Author: Clare London
Publisher: Carina Press
Length:: Novella – 163 pages
Buy the book: Carina Press
Blurb:
London art dealer Charles Garrett has devoted his life to appreciating and acquiring beauty, both in art and in his companions. His fashionable life is rocked to the core when he discovers the body of a young artist, Paolo Valero, in a pool of blood in his gallery.
As Paolo’s mentor, Charles is haunted by the horror of his violent death. Seeking closure, he investigates Paolo’s past and soon discovers a tangled web of motives and potential suspects, some closer to home than he ever imagined. He’s drawn to Antony Walker, an aggressive, handsome sculptor with unsavory ties to Paolo. Charles is unsettled by Antony’s forceful nature but irresistibly attracted to his passion and his art.
When the evidence points toward Antony’s guilt, Charles is thrown into emotional turmoil. Has he lost his heart to a killer?
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August 17th, 2010 by Kassa / 575 views
Title: LA Bytes 
Author: PA Brown
Publisher: MLR Press
Length: 330 pages
Buy the Book: ebook
Blurb:
Digital Armageddon for the city of Angels?
Los Angeles’ Ste. Anne’s Medical Center has been hacked by a brilliant, malicious cracker. Christopher Bellamere has been hired to find out who is behind the break in. When tampered medical records nearly kill his lover, Homicide Detective David Eric Laine, the stakes go up and Chris goes after the cracker with all his skills.
It quickly becomes clear the cracker’s intentions go far beyond just breaking into a hospital’s computer network. He has the skill to bring the city of Los Angeles to its knees. 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?
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August 10th, 2010 by Kassa / 890 views
Title: Liquor: A Novel 
Author: Poppy Z. Brite
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Length: 352 pages
Buy the Book: Amazon
Blurb:
New Orleans natives Rickey and G-man are lifetime friends and down-and-out line cooks desperate to make a quick buck. When Rickey concocts the idea of opening a restaurant in their alcohol-loving hometown where every dish packs a spirited punch, they know they’re on their way to the bank. With some wheeling and dealing, a slew of great recipes, and a few lucky breaks, Rickey and G-man are soon on their way to opening Liquor, their very own restaurant. But first they need to pacify a local crank who doesn’t want to see his neighborhood disturbed, sidestep Rickey’s deranged ex-boss, rein in their big-mouth silent partner before he runs amok, and stay afloat in a stew of corruption in a town well known for its bottom feeders.
A manic, spicy romp through the kitchens, back alleys, dive bars, and drug deals of the country’s most sublimely ridiculous city, author Poppy Z. Brite masterfully shakes equal parts ambition, scandal, lé powder, cocaine, and murder, and serves Liquor straight up, with a twist.
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Posted in 4 stars, Fiction, Gay, Mystery, Reviews | 7 Comments »
June 1st, 2010 by Kassa / 817 views
Title: An Ideal for Living 
Author: Marshall Moore
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length:: Novel/215 pages
Buy the book: Amazon , ebook
Blurb:
Grace White and her brother Robert, overweight and affluent, are desperate to hang onto their respective love interests. Grace’s husband Rich is bonking every woman he can talk into bed. Grace is willing to look beyond his affairs if she can just have her marriage back. Robert’s law school fling James’s interest diminished as Robert’s waistline increased, but Robert has never moved on. The only solution? Losing those excess pounds… by any means necessary. And when James finds a supernatural healer who can sculpt living flesh like clay, beautiful ugliness ensues. Will Robert and Grace get what they want, or what they deserve? In An Ideal for Living, Marshall Moore has written a shocking fantastique, a novel that captures the Zeitgeist of contemporary urban life, where beauty is a commodity craved, consumed, and traded.
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