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Josh Lanyon
Josh Lanyon is a female author.
Books in Order: 126 titles
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A Winter Romance
In 2012, Josh began a holiday tradition of writing holiday codas for some of her—and your—favorite stories. At the request of readers, she collected the codas in an expanded and edited edition which was published in 2015 as Merry Chris...
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Corpse at Captain's Seat
And Then There Were...SomeAt long last, the renovations of stately Captain's Seat are mostly complete!To celebrate, mystery bookseller and sometimes amateur sleuth Ellery Page decides to throw a house-warming party and invite his New York theater fri...
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The Lemon Drop Kid
How The Cookie CrumbledAs sole heir to the Bredahl Cookies and Cakes fortune, Casper led a comfortable, happy-go-lucky life. Some would say, a charmed life.Sure, there were challenges: relentless pressure to join the family business, and his unrequit...
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Lament at Loon Landing
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 a...
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Puzzle for Two
Two can play at this game.Fledging PI Zachariah Davies's wealthy and eccentric client, toymaker Alton Beacher, wants to hire an investigator who can pose as his boyfriend while figuring out who is behind the recent attempts on his life. And Zach, str...
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44.1644? North
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...
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Hide and Seek
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 hi...
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Death at the Deep Dive
We only see the things on the surface...When Pirate Cove's favorite mystery bookstore owner and sometimes-amateur sleuth Ellery Page discovers a vintage diving collection bag full of antique gold coins tucked away for safe-keeping in the stockroom of...
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The Movie-Town Murders
Murder: Live and in TechnicolorWorking undercover gives FBI Art Crime Team agent Jason West the illusion that he's safe from his stalker, Dr. Jeremy Kyser. Though film history and preservation are not Jason's area of expertise, he's intrigued by the ...
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks
A wickedly delightful witches' brew of Mystery, Magic and MarriageMainly by MoonlightA gay high-society wedding. A stolen book of spells. A love-threatening lie. Can Cosmo Saville avoid a murder rap without revealing the truth of his supernatural her...
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Body at Buccaneer's Bay
Mystery Bookshop owner Ellery Page and Police Chief Jack Carson are diving for the legendary sunken pirate galleon Blood Red Rose when they discover an old fashioned diver's suit, water-damaged and encrusted with barnacles. Further examination reveal...
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Mystery at the Masquerade
Love is in the Salt Sea Air--and So is Murder!Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, reigning Scrabble champion, and occasionally clueless owner of the village's only mystery bookstore, the Crow's Nest, is both flattered and bemused when he's invited to...
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Scandal at the Salty Dog
Mystery Stalks the Cobbled Streets of Pirate's CoveAfter elderly recluse Juliet Blackwell suffers a mysterious fall in her spooky old mansion, she insists the ghost of long-dead pirate Rufus Blackwell has come to avenge himself on the last member of ...
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Bell, Book and Scandal
Black Cats. Black Arts. Blackmail.Must a witch break his vows to save his marriage?Cosmo Saville loves that his husband has finally accepted his witchy ways. And in return, his promise to stay out of police business guarantees them a happily ever aft...
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Requiem for Mr. Busybody
"Maybe you'll be next, Mr. Busybody!"From well-respected investigative journalist to resident busybody.When former crime reporter Michael's elderly friend Maurice suddenly disappears, he fears the worst. But Michael is unable to investigate, and no o...
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Secret at Skull House
Ellery Page is back--and in hot water again! Unlike everyone else in Pirate's Cove, Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, reigning Scrabble champion, and occasionally clueless owner of the village's only mystery bookstore, is anything but thrilled when...
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Murder at Pirate's Cove
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 bookshop and a falling-down mansion in the quaint seaside ...
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I Buried a Witch
Something old, something new, something borrowed...something blacker than the darkest night.
Cosmo Saville adores his new husband but his little white lies -- and some very black magic -- are about to bring their fairytale romance to an ...
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Mainly by Moonlight
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 ...
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The Monuments Men Murders
Someone is watching. Someone is waiting.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 ...
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In Other Words...Murder
Mystery author and sometimes amateur sleuth Christopher Holmes is settling into domesticity with his sometimes rival, sometimes nemesis J.X. Moriarity when he learns aa body has been discovered in the backyard of his former home. To complic...
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Murder Takes the High Road
A librarian finds himself in a plot right out of one of his favorite mystery novels 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...
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The Magician Murders
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 c...
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The Ghost Had an Early Check-Out
To live and draw in L.A.Now living in Los Angeles with former navy SEAL Nick Reno, artist Perry Foster comes to the rescue of elderly and eccentric Horace Daly, the legendary film star of such horror classics as Why Won't You Die, My Darling?Horace o...
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The Boy Next Door
For the last fourteen years, former celebrated Boy Detective Merle Madison has been trying to build a grown-up career for himself as a private investigator. There are just two problems: there's not a lot of serious crime in the small town of Hayvenhu...
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Halloween is Murder
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? T...
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If Only in My Dreams
If Only in My Dreams Christmas Stories, Volume One Icecapade Though he leaves FBI Agent Robert Cuffe a drunken phone message every New Year's Eve, former jewel thief Noel Snow hasn't seen or heard from his ex-lover and old arch-adversary in a decade....
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Blind Side
It's a good problem to have: 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 cli...
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The Monet Murders
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 o...
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Christmas Waltz
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...
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So This is Christmas
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 his m...
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Murder Between the Pages
Felix Day, author of the Constantine Sphinx mysteries, and Leonard Fuller, author of the Inspector Fez mysteries, are bitter rivals and the best of enemies. Both happen to present when a notorious author of roman à clef is shot by an invisible assai...
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Boy Meets Body
Four of Josh Lanyon's most popular crime novellas collected for the first time in print. Lovers and Other Strangers -- Recovering from a near-fatal accident, artist Finn Barret returns to Seal Island in Maine to rest and recuperate. But Seal Island...
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Night Watch
Three years ago investigative reporter Parker Davidson barely survived a brutal attack by his psychopathic ex-boyfriend. It's given him a dim view of romance.When Parker's ex escapes from a maximum security prison, LAPD Lieutenant Henry Stagge is tas...
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What's Left of Kisses?
Out of the Blue Grieving over the death of his lover, British flying ace Bat Bryant accidentally kills the man threatening him with exposure. The Dark Farewell It's the Roaring Twenties. Skirts are short, crime is rampant, and booze is in short supp...
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The Mermaid Murders
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 Hunt...
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A Case of Christmas
Christmas on Catalina Island--it's just what the doctor ordered.Injured in the line of duty, FBI Special Agent Shane Donovan is longing for a few days of peace and quiet. Some nice meals, a couple of good books, and maybe a bottle of the best. No fa...
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Jefferson Blythe, Esquire
Fresh out of college and recently dumped by his long-time girlfriend, shy and bookish Jefferson Blythe is touring Europe using an inherited vintage copy of Esquire Magazine's ''Europe in Style.'' Jefferson Blythe, Esquire is about old maps, new ad...
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Murder in Pastel
Ten years ago Cosmo Bari vanished, taking with him his legendary masterpiece, Virgin in Pastel. Since that day no one in the seaside art colony of Steeple Hill has heard from the eccentric painter.Surrounded by an extended family of Cosmo's colorful ...
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Short Stories
Eight stories of adventure and contemporary romance. Included here are "Perfect Day", "A Limited Engagement", "In Sunshine or In Shadow", "The French Have a Word for It", "In a Dark Wood", "Until We Meet Once More", "Heart Trouble" and "In Plain Sigh...
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Wedding Favors
Graham thinks Wyatt would feel more secure if they were married. Wyatt doesn't want to spoil Graham's wedding plans. So who's really doing who a favor?(This 9.5K short story is the sequel to Perfect Day)...
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Winter Kill
Clever and ambitious, Special Agent Adam Darling (yeah, he's heard all the jokes before) was on the fast track to promotion and success until his mishandling of a high profile operation left one person dead and Adam "On the Beach." Now he's got a new...
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Baby, it's Cold
Talk about Kitchen Nightmares! TV Chef Rocky and Foodie Blogger Jesse have been pals forever, so it should have been the most natural thing in the world to kick their relationship up a notch. Instead, it turned out to be a disaster. But Christmas is ...
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Comfort and Joy
Four heartwarming holiday stories. Rest and Be Thankful Things haven't been going well for Cam McMorrow since he moved to Inverbechie. His business is failing, his cottage is falling apart and following his very public argument with café owner Rob ...
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Fair Play
Fifty years ago, Roland Mills belonged to a violent activist group. Now, someone is willing to kill to prevent him from publishing his memoirs.When ex-FBI agent Elliot Mills is called out to examine the charred ruins of his childhood home, he quickly...
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The Boy with the Painful Tattoo
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 mystery fiction convention, Kit unpacks a crate that should contain old china. It doesn't. Within the mound...
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Everything I Know
Connor loves teaching. He loves working with kids, he loves feeling like he's making a difference. And the kids -- and parents -- seem to love him. Until the afternoon he makes a small error in judgment, and an angry father's thoughtless comments sta...
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Stranger on the Shore
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...
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Sweet Spot
For less than a dollar a piece, sample five deliously bittersweet novelettes, ten to twelve thousand words in length, each story a standalone and complete in itself. The Petit Mort stories are framed around a mysterious Tim Burton-esque chocolate sho...
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In From the Cold
THE I SPY STORIES --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 ...
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Blood Heat
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.Wil...
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Out of the Blue
Grieving over the death of his lover, British flying ace Bat Bryant accidentally kills the man threatening him with exposure. Unfortunately there's a witness: the big, rough American they call "Cowboy" -- and Cowboy has his own price for silence....
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Armed and Dangerous
Collected for the first time in print! Special Agents for the Department of Diplomatic Security, Taylor MacAllister and Will Brandt have been partners and best friends for three years. But everything changes the night Taylor admits the truth about hi...
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Don't Look Back
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.He was chuckling, a deep, sexy sound as he pushed Peter back on the satiny cushions. Was this for real? Was he going to go through with it? Peter blinked up as his tie was unfastened, tos...
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I Spy Something Bloody
Action, Adventure, and Angsty RomanceI 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 ...
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Perfect Day
Wyatt loves Grahaem. Grahaem is still in love with Jase. But things could be worse. They could be camping. Oh....
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A Vintage Affair
Message in a bottle. Somewhere in the cobwebbed cellar of the decrepit antebellum mansion known as Ballineen are the legendary Lee bottles -- and Austin Gillespie is there to find them. The last thing on his mind is hot and heavy romance with hand...
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Dangerous Ground
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 complic...
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A Ghost of a Chance
Over a century ago Illusionist David Berkeley committed suicide in his mansion by the sea, thus dooming his restless spirit to wander forever.Or so the local legend goes.Part-time parapsychologist Professor Rhys Davies is writing a book on California...
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Irregulars
in IrregularsNATO's Irregulars Affairs Division is a secret organization operating in thousands of cities around the globe. Its agents police relations between the earthly realm and those beyond this world, protecting us from terrible dangers as well as enthralli...
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The Dark Horse
Love is a dark horse -- and Sean Fairchild is in for the ride of his life.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 th...
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The White Knight
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 Hollywo...
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Cards on the Table
Fifty years ago, a glamorous Hollywood party ended in murder -- the only clue a bloody Tarot card. Timothy McShay is not the first journalist to dig into the details of what really happened that long-ago summer's night, and he's not deterred by the g...
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I Spy Something Wicked
It'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 ...
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In Sunshine or In Shadow
Keir and Rick are cops. Partners, best friends, and -- for a brief time -- lovers. But Rick thinks its too risky allowing yourself to fall in love with your partner, and Keir has had to accept that. Accept it and move on. In fact, he's traveling all ...
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Lovers and Other Strangers
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 b...
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Old Poison
Friends, partners, and now lovers.If it was complicated before, it's even trickier now that Will has been assigned a case which guarantees he'll be working side-by-side with ex-boyfriend David Bradley.As for Taylor, newly recovered from his recent sh...
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Until We Meet Once More
Nothing cracks Army Ranger "Stone Man" Vic Black's granite front. A mission to retrieve an injured Navy SEAL from the treacherous mountains of Afghanistan is all in a day's work -- until he learns the missing SEAL is his former lover. This time it's ...
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Just Desserts
Broken in body and crippled in spirit, Ridge Baneberry sees death as the only way out. Not his death, of course -- the death of his obnoxious cousin, Raleigh, the one who was responsible for the accident. It's not easy plotting the perfect murder fro...
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Critic's Choice
If there's one thing film critic Crispin Colley can say about his ex-boyfriend Rey, it's that Rey likes to remain friends with all his former lovers. Rey's a friendly guy. Maybe too friendly, judging by the incident that drove the first and last nail...
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Fair Game
A crippling knee injury forced Elliot Mills to trade in his FBI badge for dusty chalkboards and bored college students. Now a history professor at Puget Sound university, the former agent has put his old life behind him -- but it seems his old life i...
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The Darkling Thrush
Fed up with his desk duty in the Imperial Arcane Library, book hunter Colin Bliss accepts a private commission to find The Sword's Shadow, a legendary and dangerous witches' grimoire. But to find the book, Colin must travel to the remote Western Isle...
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The Dark Farewell
It's the Roaring Twenties. Skirts are short, crime is rampant, and booze is in short supply. Prohibition has hit Little Egypt where newspaper man David Flynn has come to do a follow-up story on the Herrin Massacre. But the massacre isn't the only new...
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Strange Fortune
Dashing soldier of fortune Major Valentine Strange, late of the Emperor of Alba's 21st Regiment of Benhali Lancers, is hired by Brahman Ehimay Warrick to find a legendary diadem reputedly hidden in a lost monastery somewhere deep in the distant, snow...
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The Art of Dying
#4 in the PARTNERS IN CRIME SERIES! 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...
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Footsteps in the Dark
Footsteps in The Dark Partners in Crime 3 By Josh Lanyon & Sarah Black 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. ...
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The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks
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...
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The Hell You Say
Adrien English isn't really a detective, he's a bookseller and mystery writer who has a knack for attracting real life mischief and mayhem -- much to the displeasure of his sexy, sometimes-boyfriend, closeted homicide detective Jake Riordan.When book...
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A Dangerous Thing
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. ...
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Fatal Shadows
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 wit...
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44.1644� North
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...
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Giochiamo a Nascondino
Per il curatore museale, Andrew Allison, il piccolo e sonnolento villaggio di Safehaven, nel Maine, è sempre stato all'altezza del suo nome: un rifugio sicuro. In fuga da una relazione violenta, mentre cerca di capire cosa fare del suo futuro, A...
