Posts labeled Mystery
Review - The Attercop by Peter E. Fenton
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Charlie seems to have finally arrived as a private investigator – he’s being sued by a former target of investigation. But there’s no time to worry about that. The agency has a new client requiring close protection. Meanwhile, a series of seemingly unrelated crimes starts to point to a stalker tracking Declan. When everything goes sideways, it’s down to Charlie to figure things out. Can he save the man he loves and rescue the girl?
Tags: Mystery Private Eyes
Review - Hot Plant Daddy by Crystal D. Budy
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Benji just moved into a new apartment and is pleasantly surprised to find his new neighbor is a hot, slightly older man who waters the numerous plants on his balcony shirtless. The fun is disrupted one morning when a college student is poisoned in the apartment complex. The girl’s sister hires private investigator Benji to look into the death. It turns out that “hot plant daddy”, as Benji has come to think of his neighbor, is a professor with detailed knowledge of the exact plant used to poison the student, who was his research assistant.
Review - Murder on Donut Station by SI Clarke
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Pete is driving along a deserted stretch of Canadian highway one night when he sees what appears to be a stranded motorist on the side of the road. Pete stops to help, only the “car” turns out to be a space ship, the motorist an alien, who needs help with his dying human friend. Thirty years later, Pete is semi-retired from the Galactic Union police force and looking for a business opportunity he can buy.
Tags: Mystery Science Fiction
Review - The Road to Pienza by Garrick Jones
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It’s been ten years since Australian Damson O’Reilly found a dead body in the derelict Tuscan farmhouse he’d just purchased. Damson still lives in the house he fixed up and is now a successful writer. He shares his life with Giancarlo, with whom he has an open relationship. The one-time police detective is now a highly regarded lawyer. Damson returns from a book tour of Australia to find his lover obsessed with his latest case, which involves a notorious far right businessman and a famous Italian movie star.
Review - Seeing Blood by L.M. Somerton
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Someone is experimenting on gene-enhanced people, often with fatal results. Bryn and Gunnar are assigned to the case. The trail soon leads to a clandestine project to create super-soldiers, and it’s run by the pair’s old nemesis, mob boss Russo. As if the case weren’t complicated enough, Bryn also has to contend with the involvement of the man who made his life hell during his training, Giles. It seems that Giles has some expertise that will make him useful to the investigation, no matter how much it grates on Bryn.
Review - Reckless Endangerment by Crystal D. Budy
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Kip is taking a heavy load of classes during the summer session, trying to make up for several failed exams the previous term, when he almost fell into the clutches of a human trafficking ring. It’s hard, since the young man lacks discipline. His biggest wish is to find a Dom that will keep him in line, but his track record with men is pretty dismal. Kip is quite surprised when one of his professors has been replaced by a man he knows as police detective Baxter Griffin, using a different name.
Review - Seeing Death by L.M. Somerton
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Bryn’s life is changed forever when he turns 18 and a latent gene activates, turning him into an augur, the rarest of mutations that allows Bryn to see someone’s memories or if they’re telling the truth with just a touch. It makes him indispensable to law enforcement and a target of the killers and mob bosses he helps find. On completing his training, Bryn is partnered with Gunnar, an experienced police detective who is also lupine.
Review - The Burnt by Peter E. Fenton
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Charlie is studying to become a private investigator in his own right. Between that and the office administration work, it keeps him very busy, but when Declan decides Charlie is ready to handle a seemingly simple case, it’s too good to pass up. On the home front, both men have a tendency to get so wrapped up in their work, their nascent relationship suffers. When another case comes in involving a ten year old missing person, Declan is busy looking into the recent murder of a man involved in his career-defining case, so he asks Charlie to handle it.
Tags: Mystery Private Eyes
Review - The Alignments by E. H. Lupton
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Ulysses and Sam travel to Brittany to get a break from things in Madison, and as a sort of honeymoon. They’re staying at an apartment in Carnac that’s been in Ulysses’ family for many years. Unfortunately, the mood of their first night in town is ruined a bit when they meet a colleague of Ulysses who seems to go out of her way to cast doubt on the theories forming a cornerstone of his doctoral thesis, which won him a prestigious award.
Tags: Paranormal Mystery
Review - Hoodoo House by Peter E. Fenton
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Declan and Charlie are asked to find a laptop that went missing from Hoodoo House, an isolated writer’s retreat, after its owner was found dead. The computer stores a potentially valuable manuscript, and some videos that could be very damaging if they ever got out. It turns out the detectives aren’t the only ones looking for the laptop, and finding it is only the beginning of their troubles. Meanwhile, both men are questioning their resolve to keep their relationship “strictly business.
Tags: Mystery Private Eyes
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