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The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks (The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks, #1)

Josh Lanyon

Start date: December 1, 2017

Finish date: December 31, 2017

Discussion: Book of the Month Club

Discussion leader: Jordan Lombard

Why we're reading this: We're reading this in preparation for the sequel which is coming out very soon!…more
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Apr 07, 2011 Bookwatcher rated it it was amazing

Shelves: glbt-gay, suspense, favorites, ares-told-me-to-read

There are already so many reviews, so I think it's unnecessary to add a long review. It's an amazing book? yeah, it's a Josh Lanyon story... this is equal quality of writing and perfect timing, because yes, it's a mystery, but also a very sweet and unexpected romance.
I think that's why I love this story so much... I must admit I was hoping it would be also a romance, but complete forgot about it, trying to discover with the main characters what the hell is happening, and why dead bodies were in ...more

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Jun 21, 2010 Merith rated it it was amazing

The first paragraph sets the tone for GWYS; tongue-in-cheek humor tied in a rather ugly sports coat murder mystery. Perry fleeing his apartment and crashing into Nick sucked the reader into the story. Not only are we interested in finding out what happened to the dead body in the bathtub, but also we want to know just what's going to happen between Perry and Nick.

Perry Foster is an ordinary man, nice and unassuming. A man people can identify with or at least recognize someone we know and sympath ...more

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Aug 25, 2010 Josephine Myles rated it it was amazing

Shelves: m-m, romance, mystery

A superb mystery novel set in a creepy, possibly haunted lodging house with an array of enigmatic and eccentric boarders. Perry Foster, a slight and physically frail artist returns early from a disastrous holiday to discover a body in his bathtub – a body that then vanishes. Only Nick Reno, the taciturn ex-SEAL who lives across the hall seems to believe him, and together they set about investigating the murder, and all those that follow.

The two leads in this novel were a pairing I wouldn’t neces ...more

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