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Winter Kill

Josh Lanyon

Start date: February 1, 2022

Finish date: February 28, 2022

Discussion: Book of the Month Club

Why we're reading this: We first read this back in 2015, and we’ve voted to make this one of our four 2022 Josh rereads for our W…more
[close] We first read this back in 2015, and we’ve voted to make this one of our four 2022 Josh rereads for our Winter theme in February.

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Jan 02, 2014 Deanna rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mystery, fav-authors, favorites, m-m, want-more, cops-feds-firefighters, mc-to-love

The last few books I have read tortured me with typos, excessive pronouns, bad or no editing and other grammatical problems. Some had interesting plots or characters. Oh how wonderful it was to have a Josh Lanyon book before my eyes. As usual Lanyon has gifted his readers with a well written book filled with complex characters and two intriguing leading men. The MCs have immediate attraction and lust.The mystery was good with twists. There was not a great amount of sex, but what was there was ho ...more

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Jan 23, 2015 Lois - Who Reads rated it liked it

Shelves: mystery-suspense, challenge-scavenger-hunt, m-m, stored-kindle-app

3.5 stars

I am a huge Josh Lanyan fangirl and I haven't read a book of his that I did not like. This one was good, not great, but good. There were enough twists and turns in the mystery to keep you guessing. Adam, an FBI agent who is assigned morgue patrol, is unhappy with his current assignment and is a prickly, distant kind of guy. When he is called to a small town in the Northwest for one of those morgue patrol he meets Deputy Sheriff Rob Haskill. The romance part of this story is sweet, but t ...more

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Mar 01, 2015 Susana rated it really liked it

Special Agent Adam Darling went from hotshot to be put in the background due to a miscalculation which ended badly… But he does love his job and wants to rekindle his career. Maybe the murder investigation in Oregon can help him do so. Deputy Sheriff Robert Haskell does not like having the Feebs in his town… Although he would not mind having Agent Darling in his bed. After a hot night together they part without any promises or hope to see each other again. But another murder brings them back tog Special Agent Adam Darling went from hotshot to be put in the background due to a miscalculation which ended badly… But he does love his job and wants to rekindle his career. Maybe the murder investigation in Oregon can help him do so. Deputy Sheriff Robert Haskell does not like having the Feebs in his town… Although he would not mind having Agent Darling in his bed. After a hot night together they part without any promises or hope to see each other again. But another murder brings them back together, and feelings begin to forge between these two but, given the chance … will Adam choose Rob over a position which undoubtedly will boost his career?
Okay, I’m a convinced Fanyon so my reviews of Josh’ books are never objective. I love them all. But some of them I love better, and it is because of the characters: Adrien English, Sebastian Swift, Kit Holmes, Elliot Mills, they are all characters I fell immediately for. This did not happen with Adam Darling or Robert Haskell. They are both difficult characters to attract sympathy or affection from the beginning. Adam Darling is too cold and detached, focused on his job. Robert is careless and does not seem to take his job seriously. But that was only my first impression. I soon realised that Rob’s apparent carelessness really hid his concern and faith in the goodness of his neighbours (however naïve this may be). As for Adam, he remains a bit cold and career-focused all the book, but he redeems himself with his final decision. I came to appreciate Rob’s playfulness and cockiness in bed, and Adam’s capacity to keep a cold mind even in the more scary situations. I hope there is more of these two. I think a relationship between them is not going to be an easy one: It is surprising that these two so very different characters can harbour feelings for each other. Adam loves the sun and is a convinced urbanite. Rob tried the cities, but he finds happiness in the solitude of northern forests. Honestly, I do not know how they are going to do it. I’m eager to find out…. And, by the way, look for a pseudo-cameo of a well-known (and very dear to me) character from other of Josh’ series…
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Mar 10, 2013 Laurel rated it really liked it

Shelves: m-m-mystery

I love most of Josh Lanyon's books. I did enjoy this one a lot. It was fast paced and had enough mystery mixed in with the romance to keep things entertaining.

Rob is a small town cop, and Adam is an FBI agent trying to bounce back from a rough case. They discover more than a mutual attraction when they investigate a gruesome murder and a cold case. ...more

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Jan 18, 2014 Josephine rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, m-m-bl-yaoi, lgbt, suspense, mm, mm-romance, romantic-suspense, crime

I loved Winter Kill. For a lot of reasons. Josh's great writing for one. Then there's the suspense, the mystery, the romance, the characters. Absolutely everything you'll ever ask for out of a Josh Lanyon book and more.

I wish he'd write a sequel or a Christmas coda about Adam and Rob. ^___^
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Dec 31, 2016 Lisa ~ Books Are My Drugs ~ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: m-m, loanable, purchased-ebook, from-amazon, 200-499-pages

I really enjoyed the story however there is a lot of dialogue tags in it. Maybe not very noticeable when reading in written format but when listening to audio for several hours all those "he said, she said, they saids" become annoying after a very short period of time. ...more

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