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REVIEW: Banyak & Fecks – Jackson Marsh

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Banyak & Fecks - Jackson Marsh - Clearwater

Genre: Historical, Mystery, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Banyak & Fecks is a prequel to The Clearwater Mystery series of romantic gay novels.  However, it is not a mystery. It is a story of how a Ukrainian refugee and the son of an Irish immigrant come to meet in the East End of London in 1884. It is a story about friendship. 1881. Andrej’s family are dead or missing, and his village in Ukraine decimated. Aged thirteen, he walks west to find a boat to take him to London. Three years later, homeless, starving and having resorted to prostitution, he finds … Read more

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REVIEW: Negative Exposure – Jackson Marsh

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Negative Exposure - Jackson Marsh

Genre: Mystery, Gay Romance, Historical LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book December 1889. Silas Hawkins, once a trickster from the slums, is now the public face of the Clearwater Foundation. As London society gathers to celebrate its success, and Prince Albert Victor considers becoming its new patron, life for Archer, Silas and the crew could not be better. But everyone has a past, especially Silas, a man ripe for blackmail. Photographs, demands, a dead photographer and a mystery amid the influenza pandemic of 1889, it falls to James, Silas and Fecker to find the blackmailer before Silas’ sordid past leads to public downfall. … Read more

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REVIEW: One of a Pair – Jackson Marsh

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One of a Pair - Jackson Marsh

Genre: Mystery, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It At Amazon About The Book ‘Love is more than just a chemical reaction.’ James Wright, the lead detective of the new Clearwater Detective Agency, faces a pair of unsolvable problems. Life is going well for Jasper and Billy. Young, talented, and falling in love, the two can look forward to a rosy future. But Billy’s master, Colonel Ware, is slowly being poisoned, and if he dies, Billy’s family will be forced to emigrate. It falls to James to investigate the poisoning, but there are no suspects and no motives. Worse, if he fails, a good man will die, and … Read more

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REVIEW: Home From Nowhere – Jackson Marsh

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Home From Nowhere - Jackson Marsh - Clearwater Mysteries

Genre: Mystery, Historical, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book After their wild and dangerous adventures, Archer and his crew are happy to take on a cosy mystery. Two new staff join Clearwater House. One of them, Jasper Blackwood, comes with an enigmatic, limited edition songbook that suggests he is no ordinary lad from the workhouse. When Archer investigates Jasper’s past, he soon realises that his origins, if known, will cause a scandal for one of his closest friends. The question is, how to reunite father and son without disrupting their lives? In the space of one week, Jasper’s life changes in ways … Read more

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REVIEW: Artful Deception – Jackson Marsh

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Artful Deception - Jackson Marsh

Genre: Mystery, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book “Deception. The lie that tells the truth.”   A damaged painting tempts Clearwater to a final battle with his arch-enemy, and it’s not a summons he can ignore. Archer must free his homicidal brother from incarceration and reinstate him to the title. He will be left humiliated and penniless, but free to live his life with Silas with no threat of exposure. The alternative is death.   Drawing inspiration from a work of art, Clearwater manipulates a series of illusions to stay one step ahead of the endgame. While James, Tom and Silas race to solve … Read more

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REVIEW: Phoenix – J.V. Speyer

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Phoenix - J.V. Speyer

Genre: Romance, Suspense, Paranormal LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book In this thrilling conclusion to the Hunter series, Donovan’s new promotion has just brought its first tragedy. Two of his detectives and one FBI agent have been shot in a joint mission in western Massachusetts, and a manhunt is on for the killer. Luis is trying his best to be supportive, but he’s the key witness in the trial of a major predator in Boston.  When an ally of the predator in Luis’ case takes desperate action to free the defendant, Luis is in more danger than he’s ever faced before. Donovan is … Read more

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REVIEW: Sticks and Stones – Steve Burford

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Sticks and Stones - Steve Burford

Genre: Mystery LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book “He’s a thug… a really nasty piece of work.” When young Clayton Kerry, member of a notorious Worcester family, is found dead on an abandoned factory site, it looks like an accident. Some even say it was what he deserved. But headteacher Alun Blake’s refusal to sugarcoat the truth about the pupil he excluded causes outrage in the local community and sparks a vendetta against him that rapidly spirals out of control threatening both his life and that of his daughter. When Detective Inspector Summerskill and Detective Sergeant Lyon investigate, they find Clayton’s death was … Read more

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REVIEW: Bitter Bloodlines – Jackson Marsh

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Bitter Bloodlines - Jackson Marsh

Genre: Mystery, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Following an accident, a schoolboy and a tattooed Romanian find themselves unexpected guests at Clearwater’s country house, Larkspur Hall. But what if their presence is no accident? What if Mr Smith is Protectori, a member of an ancient order of assassins bent on destroying anyone who sullies the name of the Szekely people of Transylvania? And what do a runaway boy and an assassin have to do with Clearwater’s famed Easter dinner party and its guest of honour, the actor, Henry Irving? Ancestral feuds, a pocket watch and a rare Romanian wine are seemingly … Read more

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REVIEW: Bodies Beautiful – Steve Burford

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Bodies Beautiful - Steve Burford

Genre: Mystery, Suspense LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book “Y’know, time was when the serial killers went after helpless young women. Now they’re taking out bodybuilders.” When promising young bodybuilder Paul Best is found gruesomely murdered, DI Claire Summerskill and DS Dave Lyon find themselves deep in the unfamiliar territory of hard core gyms and weights, supplements and steroids. But when the one thing linking the growing list of murder victims is that they are the last men you’d expect to be victims, Summerskill and Lyon are faced with their toughest case yet. “Bodies Beautiful” is the second in the Summerskill and Lyon series … Read more

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REVIEW: It’s a Sin – Steve Burford

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It's a Sin - Steve Burford

Genre: Mystery, Police Procedural, Detective LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book “He is a talented and very promising young policeman. Make no mistakes, he deserves the promotion.” But when gay Detective Sergeant Dave Lyon is assigned to Detective Inspector Claire Summerskill’s team as part of the Service’s ‘positive discrimination policy’, no-one at Foregate Street Station is happy. And that includes Summerskill and Lyon. Mutual suspicion and mistrust must be shelved however, when a young man’s beaten body is found on a canal tow path, and a dead-end case of ‘happy slapping’ unexpectedly turns into a murder investigation. Why would someone want to kill middle … Read more