5 book recs
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katikatI've reached my goal and read 150 books this year. And of those, I would like to rec you a few...
Urban Fantasy: "Bone Song" by John Meaney: There have been four celebrity murders already. Now it’s up to Lieutenant Donal Riordan to make sure that Tristopolis isn’t the scene of a fifth. But the necropolis’s vast underground network is already mobilizing for a battle of epic proportions against a powerful death cult whose dark influence reaches up to the highest echelons of Tristopolis’s elite. Riordan’s only hope is an unlikely alliance with a para-live female agent as they hunt—both aboveground and below—among gargoyles and zombies, spirit slaves and assassins, for the killers even the dead have reason to fear.
Urban Fantasy: "A Rush of Wings" by Adrian Phoenix: HIS NAME IS DANTE.
Dark. Talented. Beautiful. Star of the rock band Inferno. Rumored owner of the hot New Orleans nightspot Club Hell. Born of the Blood, then broken by an evil beyond imagination.
HIS PAST IS A MYSTERY.
F.B.I. Special Agent Heather Wallace has been tracking a sadistic serial murderer known as the Cross Country Killer, and the trail has led her to New Orleans, Club Hell, and Dante. But the dangerously attractive musician not only resists her investigation, he claims to be "nightkind": in other words, a vampire. Digging into his past for answers reveals little. A juvenile record a mile long. No social security number. No known birth date. In and out of foster homes for most of his life before being taken in by a man named Lucien DeNoir, who appears to guard mysteries of his own.
HIS FUTURE IS CHAOS.
What Heather does know about Dante is that something links him to the killer -- and she's pretty sure that link makes him the CCK's next target. Heather must unravel the truth about this sensual, complicated, vulnerable young man -- who, she begins to believe, may indeed be a vampire -- in order to finally bring a killer to justice. But Dante's past holds a shocking, dangerous secret, and once it is revealed not even Heather will be able to protect him from his destiny....
Gay Mystery: "Habit for Death" by Chuck Zito: Escaping the heat and heartbreak of New York City for a summer in rural Pennsylvania sounded like the perfect plan to Nicky D'Amico. Little did he know that what began as a heavenly idea would turn out to be a hell of a job!
Each year the nuns of rural St. Gilbert's College hire a city slicker to help with their summer theater festival. As the stage manager, Nicky has a lot to handle - a truly awful musical script, bickering school staff, a huge crush on the cute guy in the chorus but things are about to get a whole lot worse. Convent of Fear, the school's play, features a serial nun killer. When several cast members are murdered, the mystery moves from the stage to real life. With its suspenseful plot, loveable characters, and laugh-out-loud humor, A Habit for Death is one habit you won't want to break.
Gay Romance: "The Obsolete Man" by Pepper Espinoza: James Duran no longer fits in the world. At forty-five years old, his wife has left him, and his job as a pre-press technician was not just downsized, it was completely eliminated.
With no reason to stay in the world, James makes plans to jump in front of the train that took him to work every day for twenty-five years. But before he does, he’s finally going to introduce himself to the stranger who takes the same train. The stranger who has gorgeous eyes and a wonderful smile.
A stranger who can make the world fit James Duran again...
Urban Fantasy: "Unfallen Dead" by Mark Del Franco: Samhain, the night when the veil fades between this world and the afterlife, and the Dead walk the earth. For a century since the Convergence of Faerie and modern reality, the Ways have been closed. But now signs point to the chance that the veil may lift again.
Connor Grey's not interested.
Not when a queen of Faerie is interrogating him about his involvement in a recent near apocalypse. Not when Dylan macBain, his old partner at the Guild, stirs memories of the past he'd rather forget. And not when a homeless man turns up dead with druidic runes slashed across his forehead.
What begins as a revenge killing turns into something far more sinister as Boston is torn apart by forces beyond control. Connor must choose whether to trust his friends or his enemies -- and the wrong decision may cost him his life.
And as a bonus, a collection of short gay stories: "Josh Lanyon Collected" by Josh Lanyon, of course!
Urban Fantasy: "Bone Song" by John Meaney: There have been four celebrity murders already. Now it’s up to Lieutenant Donal Riordan to make sure that Tristopolis isn’t the scene of a fifth. But the necropolis’s vast underground network is already mobilizing for a battle of epic proportions against a powerful death cult whose dark influence reaches up to the highest echelons of Tristopolis’s elite. Riordan’s only hope is an unlikely alliance with a para-live female agent as they hunt—both aboveground and below—among gargoyles and zombies, spirit slaves and assassins, for the killers even the dead have reason to fear.
Urban Fantasy: "A Rush of Wings" by Adrian Phoenix: HIS NAME IS DANTE.
Dark. Talented. Beautiful. Star of the rock band Inferno. Rumored owner of the hot New Orleans nightspot Club Hell. Born of the Blood, then broken by an evil beyond imagination.
HIS PAST IS A MYSTERY.
F.B.I. Special Agent Heather Wallace has been tracking a sadistic serial murderer known as the Cross Country Killer, and the trail has led her to New Orleans, Club Hell, and Dante. But the dangerously attractive musician not only resists her investigation, he claims to be "nightkind": in other words, a vampire. Digging into his past for answers reveals little. A juvenile record a mile long. No social security number. No known birth date. In and out of foster homes for most of his life before being taken in by a man named Lucien DeNoir, who appears to guard mysteries of his own.
HIS FUTURE IS CHAOS.
What Heather does know about Dante is that something links him to the killer -- and she's pretty sure that link makes him the CCK's next target. Heather must unravel the truth about this sensual, complicated, vulnerable young man -- who, she begins to believe, may indeed be a vampire -- in order to finally bring a killer to justice. But Dante's past holds a shocking, dangerous secret, and once it is revealed not even Heather will be able to protect him from his destiny....
Gay Mystery: "Habit for Death" by Chuck Zito: Escaping the heat and heartbreak of New York City for a summer in rural Pennsylvania sounded like the perfect plan to Nicky D'Amico. Little did he know that what began as a heavenly idea would turn out to be a hell of a job!
Each year the nuns of rural St. Gilbert's College hire a city slicker to help with their summer theater festival. As the stage manager, Nicky has a lot to handle - a truly awful musical script, bickering school staff, a huge crush on the cute guy in the chorus but things are about to get a whole lot worse. Convent of Fear, the school's play, features a serial nun killer. When several cast members are murdered, the mystery moves from the stage to real life. With its suspenseful plot, loveable characters, and laugh-out-loud humor, A Habit for Death is one habit you won't want to break.
Gay Romance: "The Obsolete Man" by Pepper Espinoza: James Duran no longer fits in the world. At forty-five years old, his wife has left him, and his job as a pre-press technician was not just downsized, it was completely eliminated.
With no reason to stay in the world, James makes plans to jump in front of the train that took him to work every day for twenty-five years. But before he does, he’s finally going to introduce himself to the stranger who takes the same train. The stranger who has gorgeous eyes and a wonderful smile.
A stranger who can make the world fit James Duran again...
Urban Fantasy: "Unfallen Dead" by Mark Del Franco: Samhain, the night when the veil fades between this world and the afterlife, and the Dead walk the earth. For a century since the Convergence of Faerie and modern reality, the Ways have been closed. But now signs point to the chance that the veil may lift again.
Connor Grey's not interested.
Not when a queen of Faerie is interrogating him about his involvement in a recent near apocalypse. Not when Dylan macBain, his old partner at the Guild, stirs memories of the past he'd rather forget. And not when a homeless man turns up dead with druidic runes slashed across his forehead.
What begins as a revenge killing turns into something far more sinister as Boston is torn apart by forces beyond control. Connor must choose whether to trust his friends or his enemies -- and the wrong decision may cost him his life.
And as a bonus, a collection of short gay stories: "Josh Lanyon Collected" by Josh Lanyon, of course!
