This Rough Magic
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781611184020
Publish date: April 26th 2011
Publisher: Loose Id, LLC
Pages no: 173
Edition language: English
Category:
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Erotica,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Glbt,
Suspense,
M M Romance,
Gay
Series: A Shot in the Dark (#1)
Pretty disappointed with this one. Started okay but I lost the interest in the story pretty early on. The mystery felt like it tried too much too hard and ended up being too complicated. The closure was too abrupt and you pretty much are left saying to yourself wtf? after you finish it. The villains...
I enjoy Josh Lanyon. His writing isn't fancy, it doesn't have an agenda or a cause to espouse, it's just good old-fashioned story-telling. This Rough Magic is a mystery set in the 1930's and is the first in the "Shot in the Dark" series. It stars a 'hard-boiled' private eye and a wealthy (to t...
Rounded up.
Lovely. A real sense of time and place with clear, subtle characterization. A great match between the nervy aristocrat and the tough guy with a marshmallow centre.
Good m/m mystery set in the 1930s about a young man who fears that his sister's thuggish boyfriend has stolen a valuable Shakespeare folio, so he hires a private investigator to find the folio. Sadly, this read too much like every other Josh Lanyon mystery.
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