Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Lessons for Survivors (A Cambridge Fellows Mystery) Author: Charlie Cochrane Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 265 Pages At a Glance: Like sitting in one's favorite chair on a rainy day with a cup of hot tea and quiet music playing in the background Blurb: A more than professional interest . . . a more... Continue Reading →
Title: Troublemaker Author: Joseph Hansen Publisher: Mulholland Books (Orig. Publication – 1975) Pages/Word Count: 272 Pages At a Glance: Another great mystery, though doesn't keep pace with the first two in the series Blurb: Rick Wendell’s ranch is far from town. A remote, dusty hideaway, its only inhabitants are Rick, his aging mother, and her... Continue Reading →
Title: Death Claims (A Dave Brandstetter Mystery: Book Two) Author: Joseph Hansen Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pages/Word Count: 170 Pages At a Glance: Fast pace and a taut plot make for masterful storytelling Blurb: Death Claims is the second of Joseph Hansen's acclaimed mysteries featuring ruggedly masculine Dave Brandstetter, a gay insurance investigator. When... Continue Reading →
Title: Fadeout Author: Joseph Hansen Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pages/Word Count: 272 Pages At a Glance: An absolute classic in Gay Fiction Blurb: Fadeout is the first of Joseph Hansen's twelve classic mysteries featuring rugged Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator who is contentedly gay. When entertainer Fox Olson's car plunges off a bridge in... Continue Reading →
Title: The Two Gentlemen of Altona (Playing the Fool: Book One) Author: Lisa Henry & J.A. Rock Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 215 Pages At a Glance: Sign me up for the next one in the queue because this one was simply fantastic! Blurb: Special Agent Ryan “Mac” McGuinness is having a rough week. Not... Continue Reading →
Title: The Last Guy Breathing Author: Skylar M. Cates Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 254 Pages At a Glance: Great couple, good mystery, unconvincing procedural Blurb: Henry Clueley doesn’t want to be in Glamour, not after moving far away to overcome a difficult, if privileged, childhood. He’s no longer that pudgy kid desperate to escape... Continue Reading →
Title: Third Eye Author: Rick R. Reed Publisher: DSP Publications Pages/Word Count: 264 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Who knew that a summer thunderstorm and his lost little boy would conspire to change single dad Cayce D’Amico’s life in an instant? With Luke missing, Cayce ventures into the woods near their house to find his... Continue Reading →
Title: Desert Foxe (Skyler Foxe Mysteries: Book Five) Author: Haley Walsh Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 232 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Skyler and his friends go to Palm Springs for the annual White Party and find murder! Out and proud high school English teacher Skyler Foxe and his posse of friends go to the... Continue Reading →
Title: The Consequence of High Caliber (The Mako Shark: Book One) Author: Nicole Castle Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 168 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Miko is a devoted son. An irresponsible brother. A protective friend. An anonymous lover. An assassin, nicknamed the Mako Shark after the sheer violence of his hits. Miko is deadly. And... Continue Reading →
Title: Player vs Player Author: Amelia C. Gormley Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 282 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Pushing for change can be dangerous when change starts pushing back. Video game writer Niles River loves the work he does at Third Wave Studios: creating games with mass appeal that feature women, people of color,... Continue Reading →
Title: Sleeping on the Job Author: Missouri Dalton Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 118 pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: At sixteen, Simon Murphy was an accomplished jewel thief, at eighteen he was released from a boy’s reform school and these days, he’s a detective with Chicago’s Night Shift. When a familiar killer strikes again, Simon... Continue Reading →
Title: When Ryan Came Back Author: Devon McCormack Publisher: Harmony Ink Press Pages/Word Count: 222 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Steven's life changes forever the day he discovers his childhood friend and lifelong crush, Ryan Walters, standing in his bedroom. The problem? Ryan Walters committed suicide just days earlier. Ryan tells Steven that he didn't... Continue Reading →
Title: Buck Baxter, Love Detective Author: Geoffrey Knight Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 90 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Welcome to Wilde City, 1924—a crane on top of every skyscraper, a party in every club, a romance on every dance floor, a shooting every night, a broken heart on every street corner and a... Continue Reading →
Title: Facing Demons (Scars: Book Three) Author: Lynley Wayne Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 379 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: When demons from his past interfere with his present, Cam knows Seth is the only one he can trust to help him face them. At the age of fifteen, Seth Dempsey gave his heart to... Continue Reading →
Title: Accidental Contact and Other Mahu Investigations (Mahu #7.5) Author: Neil Plakcy Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 187 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Sex, mayhem and justice in the Aloha State as openly gay Honolulu homicide detective tracks murderers, missing people & a dog with unusual appetites. From murderers to missing babies to a shaggy... Continue Reading →
Title: All Kinds of Tied Down Author: Mary Calmes Narrator:: Tristan James Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 9 hours, 1 minute Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Deputy US Marshal Miro Jones has a reputation for being calm and collected under fire. These traits serve him well with his hotshot partner, Ian Doyle, the kind of guy... Continue Reading →
Title: DMZ Author: Andrea Speed Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 28 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Carlo Langlois joined the diplomatic corps to help people, but when his helicopter is shot down in a war torn country, he’s the one who needs assistance. None other than his old secret crush from university, Ky Kinnaird, turns... Continue Reading →
Title: Vanished Author: Carter Quinn Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 98 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Henry Cooley has good friends and a good life. He’s secure in his job and his relationship. He and Tom, the love of his life, are about to celebrate their twenty-first anniversary as a couple. Their son, CJ, is in... Continue Reading →
Title: Laurel Heights 2 Author: Lisa Worrall Publisher: White Stiletto Press Pages/Word Count: 143 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Will and Scott are now out and proud and living together in Scott's tiny house. So everything is perfect, right? Wrong... Scott has a new partner, a new male partner, and Will is not happy about... Continue Reading →
Title: The Glass-House Murder Author: T. Nielson Publisher: JMS Books Pages/Word Count: 156 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Meet Lord Henry Carlisle: gentleman, wastrel, and mystery-novel lover. When his mother telephones him on a May evening to tell him they've just discovered a body in the glass-house, Hal does what he loves to do: he... Continue Reading →
Title: Red Rose (Blood) Author: Michael Kudo Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: “I don’t like to be called an Assassin, I prefer the term problem solver.” My name’s Alex. I’m an average guy. I kill people for a living. But don’t judge me. I don’t take jobs on just anybody... Continue Reading →
Title: Love and Punishment Author: Susan Mac Nicol Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group Pages/Word Count: 245 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: FROM DARKNESS AND LIGHT Someone is leaving a trail of bodies throughout London, and Detective Anthony Parglietto is determined to end the violence. Then he’ll return to the man he loves. Tough, street-savvy, and used... Continue Reading →
Title: November Rain Author: Daisy Harris Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 140 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: A single bullet could take them both down. Fire and Rain, Book 4 Detective Joe Klamath is used to guys falling on their backs at the arch of his commanding eyebrow. Yet he can’t seem to get a... Continue Reading →
Title: Yakuza Courage Author: H.J. Brues Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Sequel to Yakuza Pride Ex-Navy SEAL Brendan O’Farrihy enrolls in kendo classes to investigate a Honolulu dojo acting as a front for a yakuza syndicate. Or at least that’s what Brendan’s client, Senator Harris, believes. Through his kendo instructor, the... Continue Reading →
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