Download or read book S ance on a Summer s Night written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theater critic Artemus Bancroft isn’t sure what to expect when his aunt summons him home to California with vague but urgent pleas about being unable to cope with “the situation.” The situation turns out to be the apparent haunting of Green Lanterns Inn—along with alarming rumors that long-suffering Auntie Halcyone may have murdered her philandering husband. In fact, the rumors seem to have been started by the late Mr. Hyde himself—from beyond the grave.

Download or read book The White Knight written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-05-20 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White Knight. It’s a Hollywood cliché. But in the case of hot and handsome LAPD Detective Daniel Moran, the clichés are all true. Dan is everything rising Hollywood star Sean Fairchild ever wanted in a leading man, but Dan’s kind of an old-fashioned guy. It’s his job to keep Sean safe and in one piece—happy is someone else’s problem.

Download or read book The Seance Society written by Michael Nethercott and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging, charming, and smart, The Séance Society by Michael Nethercott is a fresh take on the traditional mystery genre for readers who love original characters, witty dialogue, and a great whodunit. It's 1956, and Lee Plunkett has taken over the family business as a private investigator despite his reluctance to follow in his father's footsteps. When murder intrudes on a group of ghost seekers, Lee is asked to solve the case by a cop on the verge of retirement. At the urging of his perpetual fiancée Audrey, Lee enlists the help of Mr. O'Nelligan, a scholarly Irishman with a keen eye for solving mysteries. The duo is drawn into a murder investigation involving the "Spectricator," a machine designed to communicate with the dead. Soon, Plunkett and O'Nelligan are knee-deep in a suspect pool that includes a surly medium, a former speakeasy queen, a mysterious Spanish widow, and a whole slew of eccentric servants. "Nethercott's debut sparkles with a mix of W.B. Yeats and Elvis quotations, well-placed red herrings, and an endearing trio of protagonists."—Library Journal "This clever series opener offers a mid-century take on the traditional drawing-room mystery... There is a sweet charm to this mystery, ensuring that readers will want to see more from O'Nelligan and Plunkett."—Booklist "A classically styled Holmesian whodunit."—Publishers Weekly

Download or read book In a Dark Wood written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dark, dark wood there was a dark, dark house... Camping in the Jersey Pine Barrens may literally turn out to be a first date from hell for travel writer Tim North and the cute cop who persuades him to revisit a past that Tim has done his best to forget.

Download or read book Puzzle for Two written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-05-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two can play at this game. Fledging PI Zachariah Davies’s wealthy and eccentric client, toymaker Alton Beacher, wants to hire an investigator who can pose as his boyfriend while figuring out who is behind the recent attempts on his life. And Zach, struggling to save the business his father built, is just desperate enough to set aside his misgivings and take the job. But it doesn’t take long to realize all is not as it seems—and given that it all seems pretty weird, that’s saying something. The only person Zach can turn to for help is equally struggling, equally desperate, but a whole lot more experienced rival PI Flint Carey. Former Marine Flint has been waiting for Zach to throw in the towel and sell whatever’s left of the Davies Detective Agency to him. But when the inexperienced accountant-turned-shamus turns to him for help, Flint finds himself unwilling—or maybe unable—to say no.

Download or read book Corpse at Captain s Seat written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-06-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And Then There Were…Some At long last, the renovations of stately Captain’s Seat are mostly complete! To celebrate, mystery bookseller and sometimes amateur sleuth Ellery Page decides to throw a house-warming party and invite his New York theater friends to stay for the weekend. When a freak snowstorm leaves the house party cut off from the village of Pirate’s Cove, there’s nothing to do but drink, reminisce, and play games. Or so Ellery thinks—until he finds himself trapped in a real-life game of Clue.

Download or read book A Vintage Affair written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Message in a bottle. Somewhere in the cobwebbed cellar of the decrepit antebellum mansion known as Ballineen are the legendary Lee bottles--and Austin Gillespie is there to find them. The last thing on his mind is hot and heavy romance with handsome bad boy PI Jeff Brady. But Jeff has other ideas and, after one intoxicating night, so does Austin. The only problem is they have different ideas. Jeff doesn’t believe in love at first sight, and even if he did, he's buried more deeply in the closet than those famous missing bottles of vintage Madeira. Popping a cork or two is one thing. Popping the question? No way. No how. Unless Austin is ready to give up on another dream, he's going to have to figure out how to make sure the lights go on--and stay on--in Georgia.

Download or read book Come Unto These Yellow Sands written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choose Wisely! Once a literary bad boy, the only lines Professor Sebastian Swift does these days are Browning, Frost and Cummings. When a student he helped to disappear becomes a suspect in a murder, he races to find the boy and convince him to give himself up before his police chief lover figures out he's involved. Max likes being lied to even less than he likes sonnets. Yet his instincts--and his heart--tell him his boyfriend is being played and a dangerous enemy may not stop until Swift is heading up his own dead poet's society.

Download or read book I Spy Something Wicked written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s All Hallows’ Eve and Mark Hardwicke’s past has come back to haunt him. The Old Man needs Mark to go on one last mission, back to the wild, lonely hills of Afghanistan—a mission Mark knows he can’t survive. Even if he does make it back, Stephen has made it very clear Mark is out of second chances. Should Mark place his lover and his own happiness before duty? Especially when deep down he knows he doesn’t deserve a happy ending?

Download or read book Cards on the Table written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, a glamorous Hollywood party ended in murder—the only clue a bloody Tarot card. Timothy McShay is not the first journalist to dig into the details of what really happened that long-ago summer's night, and he's not deterred by the grim fate of his predecessor. Tim has a book to write. But when a Tarot card turns up pinned to his front door, Tim recognizes the warning for what it is. He needs help—and the only person he can turn to is his ex-lover, Detective Jack Brady.

Download or read book Murder in Pastel written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago Cosmo Bari vanished, and with him, his legendary masterpiece, Virgin in Pastel. Since that day no one in the seaside art colony of Steeple Hill has heard from the eccentric painter. Surrounded by an extended family of Cosmo’s colorful compatriots, mystery writer Kyle Bari believes he has come to terms with being abandoned by his famous father, until the day Adam MacKinnon arrives with his new lover, the beautiful but poisonous, Brett. Brett has an unerring instinct for other people’s weak spots; soon the quiet colony is seething with hostility and suspicion as Brett hints he knows something about the missing artist. Kyle doesn’t take Brett seriously until the long lost Virgin in Pastel is discovered hidden in an antique dresser. A few days later the painting has vanished again—and Brett is dead. Murdered...

Download or read book The Dickens With Love written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-12-13 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scandal cost antiquarian book hunter James Winter everything that mattered to him. Now the rich and unscrupulous Mr. Stephanopoulos has a proposition. A previously unpublished Christmas book by Charles Dickens has turned up in the hands of an English chemistry professor by the name of Sedgwick Crisparkle. Mr. S. wants James to get that book for him—at any price. There’s just one catch. James can’t tell the nutty professor who the buyer is. Actually, two catches because the nutty Professor Crisparkle turns out to be totally gorgeous — and on the prowl. Faster than you can say "Old Saint Nick," James is mixing business with pleasure — and in real danger of forgetting that this is just a holiday romance.

Download or read book Fatal Shadows written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-five-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?

Download or read book The Darkling Thrush written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ancient Evil Waits for Him in an Abandoned Castle Fed up with desk duty in the Imperial Arcane Library, rebellious young book hunter Colin Bliss accepts a private commission to find The Sword's Shadow, a legendary witches' grimoire. But to find the book, Colin must travel to the remote Western Isles and solve a centuries-old murder. It shouldn't be much more than an academic exercise, so why is the Societas Magicke trying so hard to interfere--even going so far as to send the austere and alarming Magister Septimus Marx to stop him? As Colin digs deeper and deeper into the Long Island's mysterious past, he begins to understand why Septimus is willing to stop him at any price--but by then, it's too late to turn back.

Download or read book The Movie Town Murders written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder: Live and in Technicolor Working undercover gives FBI Art Crime Team agent Jason West the illusion that he’s safe from his stalker, Dr. Jeremy Kyser. Though film history and preservation are not Jason’s area of expertise, he’s intrigued by the case of a well-connected UCLA film studies professor whose family believes she may have been murdered after discovering a legendary lost 1950s PI film. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, BAU Chief Sam Kennedy gets disturbing news: the Roadside Ripper, the serial killer Sam believes murdered his college boyfriend, may not have been working alone.

Download or read book Short Stories Volume I 2007 2013 written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A digital collection of Josh’s most popular short stories written between 2007 and 2013: eight stories of adventure, romance, and yes, a little bit of mystery. Including: Perfect Day - Wyatt loves Graham. But Graham is still in love with Jase. A Limited Engagement – Ross has done everything Adam has asked him to do, including giving the man a part in his new play. All he wants is for Adam to keep his mouth shut. In Sunshine or In Shadow - Rick thinks its too risky allowing yourself to fall in love with your partner, and somehow Keir has had to accept that. The French Have a Word for It - It's been ten years since Colin Lambert last saw his former bodyguard, Thomas Sullivan. In a Dark Wood – In a dark, dark wood, there was a dark, dark house… Until We Meet Once More - Nothing cracks Army Ranger "Stone Man" Vic Black's granite front. Not after Sean Kennedy. Heart Trouble – Stress kills. So does loneliness. In Plain Sight - Nash didn't believe in love until it was too late. Now he's looking for reasons, for answers, for meaning.

Download or read book Dangerous Ground The Complete Series written by Josh Lanyon and published by JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerous Ground: The Complete Series Dangerous Ground Special Agents for the Department of Diplomatic Security, Taylor MacAllister and Will Brandt have been partners and best friends for three years, but everything changed the night Taylor admitted his feelings for Will. Yeah, it's complicated... Old Poison Friends, partners, and now lovers. If it was complicated before, it's even trickier now that Will has been assigned a case which guarantees he'll be working side-by-side with ex-boyfriend David Bradley. Blood Heat It's a bad time for DSS Agents Brandt and MacAllister to find themselves stranded in the middle of the New Mexico wilderness responsible for the health and welfare of a suspected terrorist. In other words, another day at the office. Dead Run The strain of a long distance relationship is beginning to tell after eleven months of Will being posted in Paris. A romantic holiday in the City of Lights could be just the thing to bridge the ever-growing distance--if it doesn't kill them first. Kick Start Will is finally braced to bring Taylor home to meet the folks. Unfortunately, not every member of the Brandt clan loves Taylor the way Will does. Then again, not everyone loves the Brandts. Blind Side With resources already overstretched, the last thing Will and Taylor need is another client. And the last thing Will needs is for that client to turn out to be an old boyfriend of Taylor's.