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Model Citizen

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The Mystery of Nevermore

C.S. Poe · 216 pages

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Dead in L.A.

Lou Harper · 104 pages

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Everything You Have Is Mine

Sandra Scoppettone · 307 pages

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Rainey Days

R.E. Bradshaw · 296 pages

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The Best Corpse for the Job

Charlie Cochrane

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Untouchable

Robert Innes · 200 pages

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The Hardest Thing

James Lear · 256 pages

Once a major in the U.S. Army, Dan Stagg fell foul of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. In his late 30s, tall, and muscular, Dan is prone to violence, always upholding what he views as justice. He’s offered a great deal More...of money to protect the young male “secretary” of a powerful real estate broker. The vain, shallow—but most of all hot—young man’s idea of protection includes sex. Dan quickly realizes

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First You Fall

Scott Sherman · 259 pages

When his friend's death is ruled a suicide, Kevin Connor--a hustler by trade, sleuth by default--sets out to prove a case of murder. It doesn't help matters that the victim's grown children, who disapproved of their father's gay lifestyle, are only concerned about their inheritance. But they are not Kevin's only problem. His high-strung mother has moved in with him--and she knows nothing about his

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Death Trick

Richard Stevenson · 212 pages

Gay activist and ... accused murderer? Billy Blount's missing, but Albany PI Donald Strachey doubts Billy's guilt. The 1981 book that launched Richard Stevenson's pioneering series is a cracking mystery and a fascinating trip into bygone gay culture-- before HIV, in the bad old days of bath houses and gay disco, police corruption and tacit policies of harassment.

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The Murder Wall

Mari Hannah · 460 pages

Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels finds herself haunted by her inability to solve a brutal double murder. Then the brutal killing of a man on Newcastle's Quayside opens up another opportunity for Daniels to get it right, and her first case as Senior Investigating Officer. But when Daniels recognises the corpse, she fails to disclose that fact, and that puts her personal life in jeopardy. She

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Hallowed Murder

Ellen Hart · 242 pages

Jane Lawless is a woman at a crossroads - her lover has left, she has finally recovered from a vicious attack sustained last year, and the holidays are closing in. With no one to help her ring in the new year, Jane reluctantly agrees to accompany her good friend Cordelia Thorn on a peculiar holiday trip: Cordelia's estranged sister, Broadway star Octavia Thorn, has asked them to attend her wedding

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Dyeing to be Loved

Aimee Nicole Walker · 284 pages

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Ink and Shadows

Rhys Ford

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A Grave Talent

Laurie R. King · 342 pages

This gripping debut of the Kate Martinelli mystery series won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery, generating wide critical acclaim and moving Laurie R. King into the upper tier of the genre. As A Grave Talent begins, the unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco. A string of shocking murders has occurred, each victim an innocent child. For Detective Kate Martinelli

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Partners

Jordan Castillo Price · 280 pages

Among the living: Victor is a PsyCop, also know as a member of the Paranormal Investigation Team. He's not popular with the living, as most people consider him a little odd, but the ghosts of violent crimes can't wait to tell him all about their deaths. His new case pairs him with Jacob, a non-psychic who works in sex crimes, Victor and Jacob have a history, and as they work together to solve a se

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My Mate Jack

Garrett Leigh

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Death by the Riverside

J.M. Redmann · 256 pages

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Foxe Tail

Haley Walsh · 282 pages

"Skyler Foxe is a brand new English teacher in his hometown of Redlands, CA. He loves literature, loves his students, loves his friends, especially his best friend Detective Sidney Feldman. But he doesn't love keeping his orientation a secret, afraid of the backlash in this conservative county. But will murder thrust him into unwanted limelight? Who killed his principal's son outside a gay dance c

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Life Lessons

Kaje Harper · 268 pages

"Tony Hart's life has been quiet lately. He has good friends and a rewarding teaching job. Then the murdered body of another teacher falls into the elevator at his feet, and Tony's life gets a little too exciting. Jared MacLean is a homicide detective, a widowed father, and deeply in the closet. But from the moment he meets Tony's blue eyes in that high school hallway, Mac can't help wanting this

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