Josh Lanyon
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http://www.goodreads.com/joshlanyon
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male
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Mystery & Thrillers, Gay & Lesbian, Literature & Fiction
influences
Joseph Hansen, Mary Renault, Raymond Chandler
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July 2007
about this author
Over the past decade, multi-award-winning author Josh Lanyon has written numerous novels, novellas and short stories as well as the bestselling M/M writing guide Man, Oh Man: Writing M/M Fiction for Kinks and Ca$h. Josh is the author of the critically acclaimed Adrien English mystery novels, including The Hell You Say, winner of the 2006 USABookNews awards for GLBT fiction. In June 2009 Somebody Killed His Editor, first book in the brand new Holmes and Moriarity mystery-romance series, was published through Samhain. Josh is a two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist.
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“Mystery author Lanyon (the Adrien English series) makes his first foray into fantasy with a taut, energetic and romantic tale. In Hidus...
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Fatal Shadows (Adrien English Mystery Series #1) by Josh Lanyon (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.37 — 112 ratings — published 2000 2 editions |
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Death of a Pirate King (Adrien English Mystery Series #4) by Josh Lanyon (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.68 — 90 ratings — published 2008 2 editions |
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The Hell You Say (Adrien English Mystery Series #3) by Josh Lanyon (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.53 — 92 ratings — published 2006 3 editions |
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A Dangerous Thing (Adrien English Mystery Series #2) by Josh Lanyon (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.37 — 92 ratings — published 2002 2 editions |
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The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks by Josh Lanyon (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.24 — 76 ratings — published 2008 3 editions |
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Dangerous Ground by Josh Lanyon (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.97 — 77 ratings — published 2008 |
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The Dark Horse by Josh Lanyon (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.23 — 70 ratings — published 2007 |
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I Spy Something Bloody by Josh Lanyon (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.29 — 58 ratings |
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Somebody Killed His Editor (Holmes & Moriarity, #1) by Josh Lanyon (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.49 — 53 ratings — published 2009 3 editions |
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Snowball in Hell by Josh Lanyon (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.54 — 52 ratings — published 2007 |
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Somebody Killed His Editor (Gay & Lesbian)
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The road back to bestsellerdom can be deadly.
Holmes & Moriarity, Book 1
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 not a lawman in sight. Except for J.X. Moriarity, former cop and bestselling novelist. The man with whom he shared a one-night stand—okay, maybe three—long ago. The man who wants to arrest him for murder.
A ruthless, stalking killer, or a hot, handsome ex-lover. Which poses the greater danger? It’s elementary, my dear Holmes!
SNOWBALL IN HELL (Gay & Lesbian)
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Noirish WW2 mystery -- Josh's contribution to the two novella pairing in PARTNERS IN CRIME 2 - I'LL BE DEAD FOR CHRISTMAS.
Lovers and Other Strangers (Gay & Lesbian)
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My contribution to The Art of Dying mystery pairing with Jordan Castillo Price
The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks (Gay & Lesbian)
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Josh's first stand-alone novel. His romantic weekend in ruins, shy twenty-something artist Perry Foster learns that things can always get worse when he returns home from San Francisco to find a dead body in his bathtub. A dead body in a very ugly sportscoat -- and matching socks. The dead man is a stranger to Perry, but that's not much of a comfort; how did a strange dead man get in a locked flat at the isolated Alton Estate in the wilds of the "Northeast Kingdom" of Vermont? Perry turns to help from "tall, dark and hostile" former navy SEAL Nick Reno -- but is Reno all that he seems?
CARDS ON THE TABLE (Mystery & Thrillers)
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Excerpt from two novella pairing in PARTNERS IN CRIME - BOY MEETS BODY
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Rough Cut: Vincent Diamond Collected
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read in August, 2009
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"Clean, crisp writing and memorable characters. I'm enjoying this for the sheer pleasure of the writing.
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That one of my top authors is buying the debut novel from another of my top authors based on a review I wrote has got to be one of the greatest compliments I have ever received. I feel like a conduit for coolness. Thank you. I really hope you enjoy it! I thought the mystery was pretty cool, but I'm not a mystery buff, so I'd really like to hear your thoughts on it once you've read it.
