Books by Josh Lanyon
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review 1: I'm not a fan of ghost stories, but I liked the way the narrator's own relationships with life and death impacted on this tale. You can't get away from a certain amount of cliche with paranormal. There are unwritten rules about how the ghost impacts on the living world. What can ...
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review 1: Wow! Finally a book I care to review. Very "atmospheric"(stealing a quote from the book), well written, and well thought of plot. One can almost see and feel the scenes and the characters from the descriptions. The only book in a while that had me staying up most of the nigh...
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review 1: Four very nice stories set about Christmas time and while one or two are more appealing to me than others, at least three of them are worth reading, especially if you like happy endings at Christmas time, although men have to struggle with their emotions and their family. And X-m...
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review 1: This book was so much better than the 1st in the series. The first was great too don't get me wrong, but this one was better. Kit & J.X. make a great couple once Kit got over his insecurities. And yet again I was not expecting the person who did it to have actually done it. Now t...
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review 1: I have never given Josh Lanyon three stars before so this is big for me! This book ,along with the series , is amazing! This book ,like his others ,is amazing!I am addicted to this series and will continue to read the books. However, this is the most dysfunctional relationshi...
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review 1: Starting to get used to the pacing of this series. This one is also very fast- lots happens very quickly. Like I said, I'm getting used to that. The endings are still jarringly abrupt, though- reading this series is like watching my dog run on our hardwood floors- she picks up...
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review 1: Over the years I had read most of Josh's books but for some reason had missed this one. Recently for a long car journey, I purchased the audio version and am so glad I did. The narration with its distinctive voices, especially for Valentine Strange added another dimension to the ...
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review 1: Adrien can't catch a break. It's been three weeks since his heart surgery and someone is trying to break into his loft. He calls the police and Jake. Jake comes over to help, even though Adrien has asked for time to figure out if he can be with him again. But where would our intr...
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review 1: Drew Lawson needs to get a paper published soon in academia or his position is in jeopardy. He flies to a small town in Wyoming that claims to have the mummy of a 6th dynasty Egyptian princess. He leaves behind his domineering boyfriend that just happens to be his department head...
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review 1: This was better than the last two historical fiction books I read, but there are very few historical books I do like (the Whyborne & Griffin Series being one of the few I like)...that being said at least I was able to get through this one without wanting to claw my ears (I listen...
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review 1: I found this to be a comprehensive gathering of tips, tricks, straight forward directives and open-minded suggestions. Topics ranged widely from the truly creative end (what we love, of course) all the way through to the not always palatable business end of things. Well, only som...
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review 1: Josh Lanyon is a reliable, interesting, and very skilled mystery writer. I love his characters, of whom Adrian English is only one. Like most mystery fiction nowadays, there's the romantic interest which I suppose is a demand of the publishers since I have never seen where this...
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review 1: A great anthology collection, where all the stories are worthy of the rating.All give that great Christmas-y feeling, even the slightly grittier Nights in Edinburgh (my favourite of the bunch). whilst short story collections, they are all a bit longer than short and read much lon...
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review 1: Okay, okay this one was up my ally. Tough private eye meets broken playboy. Brett Sheridan hires tough private eye Neil Patrick Rafferty to recover a priceless folio of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Brett is sure his sister has taken it. Brett's duty to him family dictates that he ...
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review 1: Colin Bliss is a book hunter. Itching to get out of desk work and back into the field, Colin takes a private job to recover a witches grimoire that could spell the end of the world. Magister Septimus Marx is tagging along with Colin, but is he aiding or inhibiting Colin's quest? ...
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review 1: Me, I am a huge Lanyon fan girl. HUGE.I don’t know about this one. My heart is aching at the moment. I don’t know if I feel happy with how this played out. I think I feel on edge.Aside from that, Lanyon can write a shorty like no other. I mean, this totally packed a punch. I ment...
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review 1: Technically, I read In a Dark Wood as part of his short stories vol 1 collection In Sunshine and In Shadow but since I read The Parting Glass before finishing the collection, I thought it only fitting to post the reviews together. Once I finish the collection, I will do a review...
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review 1: Short story with a Valentines day theme. Carey is in college studying anthropology hes a swimmer too. He receives a huge box of chocolates from a secret admirer. His friends Heath and Ben tell him a story about the Valentines day killer. (urban legend) Walter is the teaching ass...
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review 1: I found this story in the series to be ...I don"t know what word I am looking for here< maybe something in between 'off' or maybe inconsistent with the rest of the series. I did not like how small a role Chance played or even interacted with the characters and felt that 'Nice' s...
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review 1: Diamond thief Noel spends the night with the FBI agent whose been hot on his tail for years. (See what I did there?) After their night together, Noel sneaks out of their shared hotel room and makes his getaway.Noel goes straight (as in stops being a cat burglar) and becomes a wri...
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review 1: I read this book a long time ago, but it seemed due for a re-read when it popped up in this week's category. It's a sweet and fun Christmas story about a down-on-his-luck book hunter and a professor who has a lost Dickens manuscript. Through many misunderstandings, they find them...
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review 1: I really loved this murder mystery. Swift is a college professor, son of two famous poets, and a poet himself. He lives in a deconsecrated church surrounded by interesting art and has what he views as a no-strings relationship with the local police chief Max. One of his students,...
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review 1: I like the intensity between Will and Taylor in this series. They do always seem to get themselves banged up, kidnapped, nearly killed but these do keep the pace up!Again, it is their relationsjip that is the main story arc - learning to live with each others foibles as two men i...
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review 1: It was okay. No. It was good. I kept thinking I was screwed because it was a sequel to another book I hadn't read and it was going to be confusing and weird but it wasn't. Not for me. I realized right out of the bat that there was a lot of history between the two main characters ...
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review 1: Tim is writting a book about an unresolved murder that happened over 50 years ago. What could be dangerous about that? Well, there seems to be someone who doesn't want it to be published.Ever.And he's determined to stop Tim.There enters Jack. A police officer and Tim's one night ...
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review 1: Mais quelle petite merveille que ce roman policier MM ! Je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais je n'avais pas acheté le premier roman de cet auteur paru chez MxM. Le résumé de celui ci m'a trop tenté, je me suis jetée dessus, et vraiment je ne le regrette pas. Voilà un roman policier à l'...
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review 1: Things are not getting easier for Taylor and Will. In Blood Heat, they are working together again, as much in love as they were before, but problems seem to spring up everywhere they go. On chasing a runaway suspected terrorist, they are attacked by an unscrupulous bounty hunter,...
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review 1: The wonderfully written, third installment in The Holmes & Moriarity Series by Josh Lanyon has arrived. With a wink at this, a nod to that, “The Boy With The Painful Tattoo” delivers a satisfying mystery; tender, sexy moments between the main characters; the reappearance of old f...
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review 1: Josh, Josh, Josh! You gave your readers a Christmas treat even if it is not Christmas when we read it. I love these two guys. One so mature and settled but still able to be pushed to the emotional edge by the man he loves. The other so strong in his profession but wanting more...
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review 1: Both stories were pretty good. Although the endings on both felt rushed and a little out of the blue. Lanyon's gift for characterizations still shines through and I wish we would have gotten a litte bit of actual Fitch and Finn interaction, rather than just the aftermath. Also it...
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review 1: A quick, sweet read.I love a good m/m cowboy book. There is just something about the land, the small country towns and of course, all those muscular men running about the place, that just pulls me in.Although a short read, Lone Star is not missing anything. We are sucked into the...
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review 1: I enjoyed this installment of the series. Mark, though, wow, I wanted to slap him so many times! Unfortunately, having worked with many broken clients through the years, I can understand where he was coming from. He was just so needy and emotionally stunted that he couldn't tr...
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review 1: I found this to be an excellent read. As someone who currently writes more for fun than profit, this book gives some great insight into the world of publishing within the M/M genre. While there was a lot of "well, duh" information (or perhaps I've just been around the genre long ...
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review 1: I am not a professional author. I write fanfiction - yeah, so go ahead an roll your eyes - and I needed some insight regarding m/m relationships. There are lots of good books on how to write romances but writing m/m romance is different because, well, the dynamics between a m/m c...
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review 1: 3.5 stars. Last month, when I bought Heart Trouble, I also bought a number of other novels and short stories by Josh Lanyon (Twitter is my book enabler). This is a sweet short about an American guy in Paris, there to pursue his painting career and get out from the watchful eye ...
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review 1: This was a short, sweet, freebie that I picked up, but it was one of those short stories that wasn’t lacking. It was also one of the best ‘friends to lovers’ books that I've read for a while.Taylor and Will planned a get-away to sort out their ‘relationship’ and they got a lot mo...
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review 1: Sort of Stranger than Fiction (Petit Morts 7) by Josh Lanyon (17,240 words) is a strong installment in the delightful Petit Morts series, now at ten books with the final five soon to be released. The novelettes are written by some of the top names in gay romance today, including ...
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review 1: A lovely story read with much of a feeling of atmosphere. A mystery, an arcanian librarian with some interesting skills, some poor choices, and never knowing who to trust from one page to the next...All very human qualities in the MC, reminding me, just a smidge mind you, of Adri...
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review 1: In this sweet little short story, Griffin Skerry is a wedding planner in small town South Dakota who never made it to New York City in order to pursue his dreams. Instead, he built a business in his hometown, fell in love with a deeply-closeted man, held onto an on-again, off-aga...
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review 1: 3.5 stars. A very short story about detective partners who had a brief relationship but called it off. Kier now is having second thoughts and instead of talking to Rick about his conflicted feelings, decides to take a week vacation before resigning his post and moving out of the ...
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review 1: I enjoyed this book very much. I really liked the setting of the story and the mystery that had to be solved. As usual, Josh Lanyon is very good at creating great chemistry between the two main characters. The sex scene in the book is not very explicit at all, but quite delicious...
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review 1: I have a feeling this series is going to be a 4 stars across the board!!! Taylor and Will are just to entertaining to pass up when choosing a book to read!!! They love...they fight...they love...one of them gets shot or beaten or both of the get beaten...or one of them gets kidn...
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review 1: Two Diplomatic Security (huh, Department of Diplomatic Security is like a real thing) agents, sitting on a rock, k-i-s-s-i-n-g! The narrator was fantastic, story - not so much. I love Josh Lanyon's writing with fire of thousand suns, but geeez, nobody gets recovered after being s...
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review 1: How Taylor doesn't kill Will for making a decision, without asking - to leave their amazing careers with an opportunity to work together in Paris - is the real mystery of this part. I mean, my ex once bought a tea kettle without asking me, and boy, did he suffer for this indiscre...
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review 1: so disapointed with this series. :((i really like this pairing and i'm so happy for Taylor that Will finally saw his love for him but the story...ewww.in every second sentence "Bradley this,Bradley that" and he was always "there".... i really disliked this character!i know he was...
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review 1: This hit every single one of my RAGE buttons. I mean, it started off with one character strangling the other, OK? And not just some random character, either. The other main character. One half of the couple. No. NO.I am always, always, ALWAYS leery of cheating being part of the p...
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review 1: A second chance Christmas story. Also, the frontrunner for the creepiest romance cover - ever.Two months ago Jesse and Rocky's relationship ended because of jealousy. Jesse is trying to make things right by coming to Rocky's cabin and cooking a nice Christmas meal for him. The pr...
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review 1: I won a copy of this fun read from Goodreads. It's funny, when I was reading the description I didn't realize it was M/M. Not something I normally read but this was a lot of fun. It took me back to my teen years when I enjoyed many of the Choose Your Adventure books. It's great f...