Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s The Boy’s Tale
Sister Frevisse discovers there is no sanctuary from the ambitious when two young half-brothers to Henry VI, King of England, flee to her for help.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s The Hell You Say
As an employee flees death threats, Adrien must contend with a Satanic cult, a hot and handsome professor, and an on-again/off-again relationship with closeted Detective Riordan…and murder…
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s A Dangerous Thing
Needing a change, gay bookseller and mystery writer Adrien English travels to northern California where he finds a body in his front drive. A corpse that disappears.
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Death of a Pirate King
Gay bookseller and amateur sleuth Adrien English’s first novel has been optioned. But murder pulls in Adrien’s former lover, and he may drive Adrien’s sexy new boyfriend to commit a murder of his own.
Book Review: James Lee Burke’s Creole Belle
Healing since the shoot-out, it’s Dave Robicheaux’s morphine-addled mind that conjures spectral visions of Tee Jolie Melton, a young woman who really has gone missing. He becomes a man obsessed as he unearths connections between global and personal tragedies, facing down forces that can corrupt and destroy the best of men.
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s The Murderer’s Tale
A visit to Minster Lovell was a welcome respite for Sister Frevisse–until murder visited the quiet manor. While some suspect a fitful guest, Frevisse knew too much to be easily fooled.
Book Review: Peter Tremayne’s Behold a Pale Horse
Sister Fidelma’s old teacher, Brother Ruadn, is dying, and his last words send her off on her most dangerous adventure where murder follows murder and a vicious civil war threatens.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Some Like It Hawk
Meg helps run Caerphilly’s summer arts and crafts festival while trying to smoke out a murderer and support Mr. Throckmorton’s long siege until they can find the secret of the town.
Book Review: Michael McGarrity’s Tularosa
Terry Yazzi, his former partner and the man responsible for ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney’s wounds, pleads for Kerney’s help. Yazzi’s son, a soldier, has disappeared in the barren desert surrounding the White Sands Missile Range.
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Fatal Shadows
A very public argument the night before has Adrien English, gay L.A. bookseller and mystery author, questioned by the cops when his old high school buddy is found murdered.