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Josh Lanyon
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So This is Christmas (The Adrien English Mysteries 6)

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God Help You Merry Gentlemen…Arriving home early after spending Christmas in jolly old England, sometimes amateur sleuth Adrien English discovers alarming developments at Cloak and Dagger Books—and an old acquaintance seeking help in finding a missing boyfriend.Fortunately, Adrien just happens to know a really good private eye…

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A Dangerous Thing (The Adrien English Mysteries 2)

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Gay bookseller and accidental sleuth Adrien English arrives at Pine Shadow Ranch to find a corpse in his driveway. By the time the local sheriffs arrive, the body has disappeared. What happened to the dead man? Who are the mysterious strangers excavating on Adrien's remote property? And will he ever sort out his problems with LAPD Homicide Detective Jake Riordan?

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Fatal Shadows (The Adrien English Mysteries 1)

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When a bookstore owner is accused of murdering his ex-lover, proving his innocence might lead a hard-nosed detective to a fatal attraction…Thirty-two-year-old gay bookseller Adrien English searches for love between the pages. As a sensitive intellectual with a heart condition, his dating life is gathering dust on the shelves. But when police name him the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his friend and employee, Adrien doesn't expect his best hope for romance to be assigned to the case…Detective Jake Riordan is hungry to climb the ranks. All he has to do for a promotion is nail the handsome bookstore owner for an obvious crime of passion. If only he could stop fantasizing about the suspect instead of the "normal" wife and family his career demands…As Riordan’s investigation heats up and the suspect insists on his innocence, the detective doubts both Adrien's guilt and his ability to resist the man's understated charms. Can they turn the crime into passion, or will a killer on the loose write The End?

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The Hell You Say (The Adrien English Mysteries 3)

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Demons, Death Threats, and Christmas Shopping. It’s Christmas time and gay Adrien English, the “ill-starred and bookish” bookseller and occasional mystery writer must contend with a Satanic cult, a handsome and eccentric university professor, and his on-again/off-again relationship with the eternally conflicted LAPD Detective Jake Riordan.Not to mention murder...

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The Dark Tide (The Adrien English Mysteries 5)

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To say goodbye is to die a little...Like recovering from heart surgery beneath the gaze of his over-protective family isn't exasperating enough, someone keeps trying to break into Adrien English's bookstore. What is this determined midnight intruder searching for?When a half-century old skeleton is discovered beneath rotting floorboards in the midst of Cloak and Dagger Bookstore's renovation, Adrien turns to hot and handsome ex-lover Jake Riordan -- now out-of-the closet and working as a private detective.Jake is only too happy to have reason to stay in close contact with Adrien, but there are more surprises in Adrien's past than either one of them expects -- and one of them may prove hazardous to Jake's own heart.

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Death of a Pirate King (The Adrien English Mysteries 4)

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And it is, it is a glorious thing to be a Pirate King!When murder makes an appearance at a dinner party, who should be called in but gay bookseller and sometimes amateur-sleuth Adrien English's former lover, handsome closeted detective Jake Riordan, now a Lieutenant with LAPD—circumstances which may just drive Adrien's new boyfriend, sexy UCLA professor Guy Snowden, to commit a murder of his own.

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