Unlike everyone else in Pirate’s Cove, Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, reigning Scrabble champion, and occasionally clueless owner of the village’s only mystery bookstore, is anything but thrilled when famed horror author Brandon Abbott announces he’s purchased legendary Skull House and plans to live there permanently.Įllery and Brandon have history. I had no reservations about moving on to book two immediately.Įllery Page is back–and in hot water again! The mystery was perfectly paced, with Ellery stumbling over the killer in a style that was throwback to Jessica Fletcher and Murder She Wrote. Jack was perfect gruff, mildly flirtations, chief of police. He was a great protagonist to follow through the story. They’re all the same descriptors I’d use for this book.Įllery (love his name) was kind, handsome, intelligent, and funny. Now, take all those adjectives and turn them into my very complimentary review. Then, the best cozy mysteries have a very slow growing relationship, with very little to no sexual interactions at all. There’s a great cast of side characters, and a mystery that’s more intriguing than it is scary. They’re comfortable mysteries with heart and warmth. In this book she brought us home to what she’s truly best at: Cozy Mysteries.Ĭozy Mysteries aren’t thrillers. I found the spark when I started Murder at Pirate’s Cove. I’ve enjoyed Josh Lanyon’s recent books, but not at the same level as her early series like Holmes & Moriarity, or the Adrian English Mysteries. In 2019, Fatal Shadows became the first LGBTQ mobile game created by Moments: Choose Your Story.She is an EPIC Award winner, a four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist (twice for Gay Mystery), an Edgar nominee, and the first ever recipient of the Goodreads All-Time Favorite M/M Author award.Find other Josh Lanyon titles at Josh on Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads.It took me a while to start this series.

The Adrien English series was awarded the All-Time Favorite Couple by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group.

In 2016 Fatal Shadows placed #5 in Japan’s annual Boy Love novel list (the first and only title by a foreign author to place on the list). Stranger on the Shore (Harper Collins Italia) was the first M/M title to be published in print. Her FBI thriller Fair Game was the first Male/Male title to be published by Harlequin Mondadori, then the largest romance publisher in Italy. Author of nearly ninety titles of classic Male/Male fiction featuring twisty mystery, kickass adventure, and unapologetic man-on-man romance, JOSH LANYON’S work has been translated into eleven languages.

Secret at Skull House by Josh Lanyon