Джош Лэнион – лучшие книги

Перевод: Beautiful Bastard На пороге нового тысячелетия похититель бриллиантов Ноэль Сноу соблазнил специального агента ФБР Роберта Каффа, а затем скрылся в рассветном тумане. Спустя годы успешный писатель Ноэль Сноу выпускает бестселлеры, в которых сюжеты основаны на проделках из криминального прошлого автора, а антагонист главного героя (он же предмет его сердечного увлечения) будто списан с Каффа. Между тем, вот уже десять лет от Роберта ни весточки, хотя в канун каждого Нового года пьяный Ноэль изливает на его автоответчик хмельной бред. Можно представить восторг писателя, когда в очередной Сочельник бывший любовник возникает на пороге его дома. Впрочем, восторг довольно быстро сменяется беспокойством, когда Роберт бросает Ноэлю в лицо обвинения в серии краж драгоценностей. Неприступный и холодный, как лед, Кафф, похоже, преисполнен лишь одного желания — упечь Сноу в тюрьму. Ложно обвиненный в чужих преступлениях и все еще увлеченный боже-каким-деловым спецагентом, Ноэль планирует акт повторного обольщения. Конечно, при условии, что не попадет за решетку!

A crippling knee injury forced Elliot Mills to trade in his FBI badge for dusty chalkboards and bored college students. Now a history professor at Puget Sound university, the former agent has put his old life behind him—but it seems his old life isn't finished with him. A young man has gone missing from campus—and as a favor to a family friend, Elliot agrees to do a little sniffing around. His investigations bring him face-to-face with his former lover, Tucker Lance, the special agent handling the case. Things ended badly with Tucker, and neither man is ready to back down on the fight that drove them apart. But they have to figure out…

Жутко романтичные истории в жанре слэш.

One sunny morning Los Angeles bookseller and aspiring mystery author Adrien English opens his front door to murder. His old high school buddy (and employee) has been found stabbed to death in a back alley following a loud and very public argument with Adrien the previous evening.

Naturally the cops want to ask Adrien a few questions; they are none too impressed with his answers, and when a few hours later someone breaks into Adrien's shop and ransacks it, the law is inclined to think Adrien is trying to divert suspicion from himself.

Adrien knows better. Adrien knows he is next on the killer's list.



(This book was previously published by Loose Id as part of the Adrien English Mysteries omnibus.)

Получив травму колена, Эллиот Милз вынужденно оставляет службу в ФБР и начинает преподавать в Портлендском Государственном Университете. После того как на территории кампуса загадочным образом исчезли несколько студентов, он берется помочь их родственникам и Бюро в расследовании и сам становится мишенью для преступника.

Gay bookseller and reluctant amateur sleuth Adrien English's writing career is suddenly taking off. His first novel, Murder Will Out, has been optioned by notorious Hollywood actor Paul Kane.

But when murder makes an appearance at a dinner party, who should be called in but Adrien's former lover, handsome closeted detective Jake Riordan, now a Lieutenant with LAPD -- which may just drive Adrien's new boyfriend, sexy UCLA professor Guy Snowden, to commit a murder of his own.

Thanks to an elderly spinster sleuth and her ingenious cat, Christopher Holmes has enjoyed a celebrated career as a bestselling mystery writer. Until now. Sales are down and his new editor is allergic to geriatric gumshoes. On the advice of his agent, he reinvents his fortyish, frumpy, recently dumped self into the sleek, sexy image of a literary lion, and heads for a Northern California writers conference to try and resurrect his career. A career nearly as dead as the body he stumbles over in the woods. In a weirdly déjà vu replay of one of his own novels, he finds himself stranded in an isolated lodge full of frightened women—and…

As if recovering from heart surgery beneath the gaze of his over-protective family wasn’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 tumbles out of the wall in the midst of the Cloak and Dagger Bookstore 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 of them expects -- and one of those surprises may prove hazardous to Jake’s own heart.

In this second LA-based adventure, bookseller Adrien English arrives at the Pine Shadow Ranch (left to him by a beloved grandmother) to find a corpse in his driveway. But by the time the unfriendly local sheriffs arrive, the body has disappeared.

Who are the mysterious strangers excavating on his land? And will he sort out his problems with LAPD Detective Jake Riordan, heavily into S/M sex but not so hot on relationships? Find out in this engrossing, slyly witty thriller.

(This novel was previously published by Loose Id Publishing as The Adrien English Mysteries Omnibus)

Уайетт любит Грэма. Грэм все еще любит Джейса. Но все может быть и хуже. Они могут пойти в поход.

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 his missing boyfriend.

Fortunately, Adrien just happens to know a really good private eye…

A murderous fall down icy stairs is nearly the death of Anna Hitchcock, the much-beloved “American Agatha Christie” and Christopher Holmes’s former mentor. Anna’s plea for him to host her annual winter writing retreat touches all Kit’s sore spots—traveling, teaching writing classes, and separation from his new lover, J.X. Moriarity.


For J.X., Kit’s cancellation of yet another romantic weekend is the death knell of a relationship that has been limping along for months. But that’s just as well, right? Kit isn’t ready for anything serious and besides, Kit owes Anna far too much to refuse.


Faster than you can say “Miss Marple wears boxer shorts”, Kit is snooping around Anna’s elegant, snowbound mansion in the Berkshires for clues as to who’s trying to kill her. A tough task with six amateur sleuths underfoot. Six budding writers with a tangled web of dark undercurrents running among them.


Slowly, Kit gets the uneasy feeling that the secret may lie between the pages of someone’s fictional past. Unfortunately, a clever killer is one step ahead. And it may be too late for J.X. to ride to the rescue

Fifty years ago, Roland Mills belonged to a violent activist group. Now, someone is willing to kill to prevent him from publishing his memoirs.

When ex-FBI agent Elliot Mills is called out to examine the charred ruins of his childhood home, he quickly identifies the fire for what it is--arson. A knee injury may have forced Elliot out of the Bureau, but it's not going to stop him from bringing the man who wants his father dead to justice.

Agent Tucker Lance is still working to find the serial killer who's obsessed with Elliot and can't bear the thought of his lover putting himself in additional danger. Straightlaced Tucker has never agreed with radical Roland on much--"opposing political viewpoints" is an understatement--but they're united on this: Elliot needs to leave the case alone. Now.

Tucker would do nearly anything for the man he loves, but he won't be used to gain Elliot access to the FBI's resources. When the past comes back to play and everything both men had known to be true is questioned, their fragile relationship is left hanging in the balance.

Рождество на острове Святой Каталины – то, что доктор прописал. Раненый при исполнении специальный агент ФБР Шейн Донован мечтает о нескольких днях тишины и покоя. Вкусная еда, пара интересных книг и бутылка отличного спиртного. Ни семьи, ни друзей, никаких бла-бла-бла… Просто немного времени, чтобы хорошенько все обдумать. Вот только океанский шторм, пожилой охотник за сокровищами и парень, без объяснений бросивший Шейна два года назад, спутывают все тщательно продуманные планы.

The long anticipated third novel in the Adrien English series finds the “ill-starred and bookish” mystery writer and bookseller battling demons—maybe literally.

After bookstore clerk Angus flees following terrifying death threats, Adrien must contend with a mysterious Satanic cult, a hot and handsome university professor, and his on-again/off-again relationship with closeted LAPD Homicide Detective Jake Riordan.

And, oh, yes, murder....

Drew Lawson is racing against the clock. He’s got a twenty-four-hour window to authenticate the mummy of Princess Merneith. If he’s not at his boyfriend’s garden party when that window closes, it’ll be the final nail in their relationship coffin.

The last thing he needs traipsing on the final shred of his patience is brash, handsome reality show host Fraser Fortune, who’s scheduled to film a documentary about the mummy’s Halloween curse.

The opportunity to film a bona-fide professor examining the mummy is exactly the aura of authenticity Fraser needs. Except the grumpy PhD is a pompous ass on leave from his ivory tower. Yet something about Drew has Fraser using a word he doesn’t normally have to draw upon: please.

With no time to waste—and a spark of attraction he can’t deny—Drew reluctantly agrees to let Fraser follow his every move as he unwraps the mummy’s secrets. Soon they’re both making moves behind the scenes that even the dead can’t ignore…

The XOXO Files, Book 1

Идет 1943 год. Вторая мировая война. Журналист Натан Дойл вернулся из северной Африки и все еще оправляется от ран, полученных в ходе кампании в Тунисе, когда получает задание осветить убийство шантажиста, происходящего из одной из самых богатых семей Лос Анжелеса.
Лейтенант Мэттью Спейн из отдела убийств ненавидит праздники с тех самых пор, как умерла его жена. И в этом году рождество обещает быть еще хуже, чем он ожидал: возникла угроза японского нападения, а сам лейтенант должен расследовать убийство высокопоставленного плейбоя.
Мэтту нравится Натан, может быть даже слишком. Если бы только у него не было причин подозревать журналиста в совершении убийства.

It's moving day at Chez Holmes. Somehow, against Kit's better instincts, he and J.X. are setting up house together. But while J.X. is off at a writing conference, Kit unpacks a crate that should contain either old books or new china. It doesn't. Within the mounds of green Styrofoam popcorn is a dead body. A very dead body.

There goes the neighborhood.