A Dangerous Thing - Softcover

Lanyon, Josh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979311055 ISBN 13: 9780979311055

Publisher: Mlr Pr, 2007

Synopsis

Adrien English Mystery Series #2 Suffering from writer's block and frustrated with his tentative relationship with hot but closeted L.A.P.D. Homicide Detective Jake Riordan, gay bookseller and mystery writer Adrien English travels to northern California where he finds a body in his front drive. By the time the sheriffs arrive, the body has disappeared, and Adrien once again finds himself playing amateur sleuth. But when the game turns deadly, Adrien turns to Jake. Jake may be confused about some things, but keeping his lover alive is not one of them--no matter what the cost.

About this title

From the Publisher:

In Josh Lanyon's A Dangerous Thing, the second in his on-going series of Los Angeles-based thrillers, featuring bookseller Adrien English, a holiday trip, following directly on from the "Gay Slasher Killings" narrated in Fatal Shadows, proves far less relaxing than English anticipates. But one corpse is not enough and as the body count mounts, so does the excitement.

From the Inside Flap:

A group of university archaeologists are camped out in a Californian forest. One of the team, of Native American descent, is convinced the place is haunted – and the weird nighttime sounds that are spooking them all out are slowly convincing the rest of them. It sounds more like the setup for an episode of Scooby Doo than a murder mystery, but the latest novel from Gay Men’s Press enters areas that Hanna-Barbera’s 'Mystery Machine crew' would never dare approach.

In A Dangerous Thing by Josh Lanyon, bookseller-turned-crime writer Adrien English escapes out to the Pine Shadow Ranch, bequeathed to him by his beloved grandmother, in the hope of overcoming his writer’s block and to sort out in his head his frustrating relationship with the S/M-obsessed LAPD detective that he met in Lanyon’s first book, Fatal Shadows.

English finds he has little time for writing, though, when he discovers a dead body on his driveway – one that has disappeared by the time the local sheriff turns up. Any hopes that this would be a comedy romp disappear further when we realise that the disappearing corpse is that of the curmudgeonly caretaker. So, without giving too much away, we can safely assume that he won’t be unmasked at the end, claiming in true Scooby style he would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for you meddling homosexuals...

When a second corpse turns up (assumed by the none-too-intelligent local police to be the hereto missing body), suspicion falls on English himself. His case doesn’t look much brighter when he discovers that the caretaker was growing nearly a million dollars’ worth of cannabis on site. Together, English and his on-off boyfriend seek to solve the mystery of the two murders – and just what is behind the strange goings-on affecting the archaeologists.

Lanyon’s second book is a riveting romp, moving along at an incredible pace. Alongside the tensions of the murder mystery, the two main characters’ growing togetherness slowly knit. Detective Jake Riordan coming to terms with his first relationship with a man manages to be touching with being cliché-ridden.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mlr Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0979311055
• ISBN 13: 9780979311055
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 234