Posts labeled Mystery
Review - The Face in the Water by Gregory Ashe
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Tean and his husband Jem are looking forward to some quality time together while Tean attends a conference in the Missouri Ozarks. But Jem has a nose for trouble and when he uncovers some illegal wildlife dealing on the sidelines, he can’t help trying to outsmart the bad guys. Things go sideways quickly, landing Jem, Tean and a group of other men in a mess of biker gangs and murders.
Tags: Mystery
Review - Murder at the Oasis by David S. Pederson
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Mason's friend Walter talks him into taking a brief vacation to Palm Springs, in part with the promise of a cheap room at a posh resort frequented by Hollywood stars thanks to a friend of Walter's who works there. However, it turns out the friend lost his job and now owns a small motel. What's more, the rest of the guests at the Oasis Inn turn out to be people Mason and Walter would rather avoid, but when one of them, and then another, turns up dead, Mason forgets he's supposed to be on vacation.
Tags: Private Eyes Mystery
Review - Fractured Souls by Ava Marie Salinger
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About 500 years ago, a rift opened, expelling angels, demons, and other assorted paranormal creatures who fell to Earth, where they were trapped with no memories of who they were. Among “The Fallen,” as they became known, Cassius is an outcast. He is mistrusted by both angels and demons, who aren't quite sure what he is. Only a few people on Earth have an idea of Cassius' power, and he likes to keep it that way.
Tags: Paranormal Fantasy Mystery Crime
Review - Bitter Legacy by Dal Maclean
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James is a Detective Sergeant in London's Metropolitan Police, working in the murder investigations team. He's on the fast track to becoming a full inspector in a few months. It's a radically different career than the one James' father had mapped out for him in the family oil business, but after coming out, James was estranged from his father and determined to create the life he wanted independent of his family's wealth.
Tags: Crime Mystery UK Setting
Review - Murder at Union Station by David S. Pederson
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Charlotte Castle is moving to Los Angeles to try and break into the film business. However, just before she's about to board the train at Phoenix's Union Station, the body of her former roommate is found in her trunk. It doesn't look good for Charlotte, so her father hires Mason Adler to prove his daughter's innocence. It doesn't take long for Mason to uncover several people with motive and opportunity, but which one really killed the young woman?
Tags: Private Eyes Mystery
Review - Upon This Rock by David Perry
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After a difficult year of caring for a terminally ill friend, Lee and his husband Adriano are taking a long vacation to relax. They're going to spend most of the time in Orvieto, an ancient hilltop town 100 miles north of Rome. The town has lots of character and quirky residents, but soon, the couple learns of the suicide of a local would-be priest the year before. The incident seems to have had a big effect on the town, and the parallels with Lee's own life compel him to look into the death.
Review - Murder on Monte Vista by David S. Pederson
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Mason Adler is a successful private detective in Phoenix. He often outsmarts the police to get to the bottom of suspicious deaths in the city. On a Saturday night during an unseasonably hot spring, Mason attends a birthday party thrown for him by his old schoolmate Walter. Walter's rather unusual birthday “gift” is for Mason to end the night with a wannabe actor who makes ends meet by turning tricks.
Tags: Private Eyes Mystery
Review - Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
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Prince Kiem enjoys the life of a royal, even if some of his more outrageous behavior sends the emperor into displeasure. When the emperor summons the Prince this time, it's not for another dressing down. It's to announce that Kiem will be marrying Count Jainan, the recently widowed husband of Kiem's cousin Taam. The marriage is necessary to maintain the fragile alliance between the empire and the vassal planet Thea.
Tags: Science Fiction Mystery
Review - Garden of Mysteries by Drake LaMarque
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Alistair is looking forward to starting the new term at school with his three boyfriends. Two new professors have been bought in with a view to potentially helping the young man finally break the curse on one of his lovers, William. Unfortunately, there still seems to be someone at the college determined to get Alistair in trouble, or worse. “Garden of Mysteries” is the second and concluding story of the Misselthwaite College series.
Review - New Life in Autumn by Michael G. Williams
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Valerius is dead. He watched himself pass away through the eyes of a golem his mind was copied into. The new body may be free of the physical and genetic defects that made his old life so hard, but his thoughts are still on the mysteries he never got to solve. Chief among them is the question of what happens to all the street kids who simply disappear from Autumn.
Tags: Speculative Fiction Mystery