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Fatal Shadows (Paperback)

by Josh Lanyon (Author)
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  • Paperback: 190 pages
  • Publisher: Millivres-Prowler Group Ltd (27 Mar 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1902852095
  • ISBN-13: 978-1902852096
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.2 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 974,501 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Bookseller and aspiring mystery writer Adrien English fears life is imitating art when his best friend and employee is found stabbed to death; the only clue, a chess pawn clutched in the dead man's hand. Is hunky but cynical LAPD homicide detective Riordan offering his main suspect a chance to clear himself--or enough rope to hang? Only sympathetic BOYTIMES reporter Bruce Green seems to believe Adrien's claim of innocence. Is a serial killer stalking LA's gay community? Has Adrien been reading too much Raymond Chandler, or is he next on the killer's list?

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The first in a new series of Los Angeles Murder mysteries!
Bookseller and aspiring mystery writer Adrien English fears life is imitating art when his best friend and employee is found stabbed to death; the only clue, a chess pawn clutched in the dead man's hand. Is hunky but cynical LAPD homicide detective Riordan offering his main suspect a chance to clear himself--or enough rope to hang? Only sympathetic BOYTIMES reporter Bruce Green seems to believe Adrien's claim of innocence. Is a serial killer stalking LA's gay community? Has Adrien been reading too much Raymond Chandler or is he next on the killer's list?

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Breakout series!, 3 Aug 2001
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Josh Lanyon has created a classic duo for a detective series. Adrien and Jake bring two different views to crimesolving and the dynamic tension of what might be relationship between a gay writer who's very comfortable with himself and a hard boiled closet case cop gives this story all the romantic suspense of something like Moonlighting combined with a clear, vivid portrait of how political ideas and discrimination affect lives. This book is a must read for anyone who's either gay or has a gay friend or relative. The book's about life as much as it is about murder and it's so brilliant crafted that you don't need to identify directly with either character to understand or feel for him.

Then again I do understand Adrien very much from within because I know what it's like to be a writer. I know what his advantages are in the detecting business. Writers are observant. Writers know human nature in a less cynical way than cops do. Writers don't have the blind spot that comes from a cop's need to make quick friend foe identification in dangerous situations. The writer's going to see what the cop doesn't and the cop's going to notice things the writer's not. That's binocular vision in a detecting team. That's a searing insight into everything in the world of the novel and something any villain might quail at having turned on him.

No spoilers in this review, not one. The puzzle game is a favorite for mystery readers and I'm not throwing one free clue to this, because Adrien and Jake are series characters that will stand up to case after case as Josh Lanyon hurls them at the worst of human nature in a world too much like ours. Watch this writer, he's doing a Breakout Series and just one taste is going to make you an addict.

Robert A. Sloan Author of RAVEN DANCE

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast-paced, sometimes humorous, and always unpredictable, 4 Dec 2000
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I usually don't like mystery novels, but I liked the idea of one involving gay characters and an intriguing metafictional slant: the mystery involves a mystery writer who owns a mystery bookstore. Like the levels of mystery, the guilt in this book also manifests itself in a variety of ways, other than the obvious question of who is guilty. None of the characters just happen to be gay; homosexuality and homophobia add to the complexity of the mystery, and the barriers to solving it. Lanyon creates believable, conflicted, and, in many cases, disturbing characters. The narrative is fast-paced, sometimes humorous, and always unpredictable.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Write, Mr. Lanyon, write!, 10 Jul 2000
This is a hugely entertaining first book in a proposed new mystery series set in L.A. The mystery surrounding the brutal murder of a young gay man is deftly and cleanly handled. What makes the book really go is the narrator, Adrien English, whose best friend and erstwhile lover (sort of) Robert has been stabbed to death in a Los Angeles alley. Adrien finds himself implicated in the crime, but, worse, he's being stalked himself by the person who likely killed his buddy.

Adrien is a wonderful character and narrator, a real person, unlike some protagonists of more established and touted series. He's funny without being mean and smart as a tack.

This is a smart book, well-paced, sweet, and suspenseful too. What more could one ask?

Well, the second installment. Write, Mr. Lanyon, write!

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