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REVIEW: Prodigal – J.V. Speyer

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Prodigal - J.V. Speyer

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Summer is back in Boston, bringing with it the anniversary of a protest that turned into a massacre. It’s a somber occasion, but one that blends into the sea of police brutality incidents across the country for Agent Luis Gomes – until his partner, State Police Detective Donovan Carey, is accused of a terrible crime.  Donovan knows he was nowhere near the crime, but eyewitness testimony is conflicting and unreliable. His own agency is desperate to be seen doing the right thing after a string of scandals, and is more concerned about regaining public … Read more

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REVIEW: Bodies Beautiful – Steve Burford

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Bodies Beautiful - Steve Burford

Genre: Mystery, Suspense LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book “Y’know, time was when the serial killers went after helpless young women. Now they’re taking out bodybuilders.” When promising young bodybuilder Paul Best is found gruesomely murdered, DI Claire Summerskill and DS Dave Lyon find themselves deep in the unfamiliar territory of hard core gyms and weights, supplements and steroids. But when the one thing linking the growing list of murder victims is that they are the last men you’d expect to be victims, Summerskill and Lyon are faced with their toughest case yet. “Bodies Beautiful” is the second in the Summerskill and Lyon series … Read more

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REVIEW: Wasted Letters – Skot Harris

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Wasted Letters - Skot Harris

Genre: Mystery / Romance / Vietnam LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book In 1970, before deploying to Vietnam, quiet Conrad Burke meets freewheeling Travis Reid in a Detroit record store. Their deep but complicated friendship spans the next three decades. Through music . . . letters . . . war . . . marriage . . . and murder.  (A unique prequel/sequel companion to The Neon Darkness Trilogy, Book 4) The Review DETROIT 1970 Travis Reid has worked at the “Jorge’s Vortex” music store since he was sixteen. He loves music and can just about name all the musicians and songs ever made. His dream … Read more

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REVIEW: Faith – J.V. Speyer

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Faith - J.V. Speyer

Genre: Suspense, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM, Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Rebuilding a relationship isn’t as easy as either Luis or Donovan thought. Re-establishing trust while trying to take down a human trafficking ring in a hotel overflowing with ghosts? That might be impossible, even for these two.  How do two people rebuild trust when they’ve been betrayed by the people they trusted most? Luis and Donovan want to stay together and make their love work, but the situation is tenuous. Boundaries must be drawn, and both are afraid to step too close to the line. Life has other plans.  A human trafficking ring crops … Read more

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REVIEW: It’s a Sin – Steve Burford

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It's a Sin - Steve Burford

Genre: Mystery, Police Procedural, Detective LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book “He is a talented and very promising young policeman. Make no mistakes, he deserves the promotion.” But when gay Detective Sergeant Dave Lyon is assigned to Detective Inspector Claire Summerskill’s team as part of the Service’s ‘positive discrimination policy’, no-one at Foregate Street Station is happy. And that includes Summerskill and Lyon. Mutual suspicion and mistrust must be shelved however, when a young man’s beaten body is found on a canal tow path, and a dead-end case of ‘happy slapping’ unexpectedly turns into a murder investigation. Why would someone want to kill middle … Read more

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REVIEW: Midnight Heist – Katherine McIntyre

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Midnight Heist - Katherine McIntyre

Genre: Contemporary, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Heist rule number one? Never fall for your mark. Grif’s always followed the one rule in the high stakes business of heists: never fall for your mark. At least, until he meets Danilo Torres… Grif Blackmore’s team of thieves, the Outlaws, take down wicked corporations and nab fantastic paydays. However, when their latest heist fails, they end up in debt to the mafia, which puts the pressure on for their next job targeting Torres Industries to go off without a hitch. There’s one problem. The CEO of Torres Industries, Danilo Torres, happens to not … Read more

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REVIEW: The Neon Darkness Omnibus – Skot Harris

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The Neon Darkness Omnibus - Skot Harris

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Romance, War, Fiction LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book The Definitive Neon Darkness Saga. Contains the complete Neon Darkness Trilogy and its companion, Wasted Letters. Newly edited and condensed with bonus material, including screenplay excerpts, author Q&A, book club questions, and more. SNAPSHOTS AT THE FONTAINE MOTEL [Book One]May 1996. Six inseparable friends seek revenge after one of them is brutally attacked. But their vigilante justice spins violently out of control and accidentally leaves the attacker dead. Desperate to escape as the FBI inches dangerously close, they flee, speeding across state lines, down dusty backroads to the Fontaine Motel, an isolated hideout in middle-of-nowhere … Read more

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REVIEW: Winter Duet – Anne Barwell

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Winter Duel - Anne Barwell

Genre: Historical, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Who do you trust when no one is who they seem?  Germany 1944 Fleeing German physicist Dr Kristopher Lehrer and his lover, Resistance fighter Michel, are caught up in an Allied bombing campaign. Separated from Michel after discovering an injured RAF pilot in the Black Forest, and pursued by the SS for the information he carries, Kristopher is frantic to reunite, unaware that Michel has been recruited by the Allies for a rescue mission.  Time is running out. The Gestapo is closing in. How can they decide who to trust, when the dagger pointed … Read more

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REVIEW: The Booker – Maryann Kafka

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The Booker - Grace Hudson

Genre: Mystery, Horror, Suspense, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book One underworld entanglement.One haunted music venue.One chance to make it out alive. When Barry Matthews left his band to become the booker for Melbourne’s hottest music venue, he never expected to find a link to the past buried deep within the rubble from the renovations. And now the new spate of threatening phone calls are becoming as troubling as the disappearing visitors and the malevolent activity in the basement.  Trapped within the hotel with the alluring Simon, or Felicia, depending on his choice of outfit, they must join together to survive the … Read more

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REVIEW: Playing Chicken – A.L. Lester

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Playing Chicken - A.L. Lester

Genre: Romance, Holiday LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Marc returns home from London to his isolated Welsh cottage for good, having found his ex boyfriend shagging someone else in their bed. Who’s the thin, freezing cold man with the bruised face he finds in his barn? Will the tenuous connection between them grow, or fade away? A 9,000 word short story to mark the Welsh St Valentine’s Day, St Dwynwen’s Day, the 25th of January. With chickens. A meet-cute contemporary gay romance. The Review Marc leaves the big city life of London behind and returns to his Aunt Pen’s cottage at the … Read more