Footsteps in the Dark
An M/M Mystery-Romance Anthology
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Footsteps in the Dark
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Joel Leslie, Kale Williams
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Seslendiren:
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Joel Leslie
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Kale Williams
The snick of a lock. The squeak of door hinges. The creak of a floorboard...
Nothing is more mysterious than footsteps in the dark. Are those approaching steps that of friend or enemy? Lover or killer?
Contains mature themes.
©2019 Josh Lanyon (P)2019 Tantor
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The two readers, Kale Williams and Joel Leslie, are as always wonderful in all respects except the ability to pronounce French words. But for me at least that was not a deal breaker.
Some of the short stories are somewhat slow burners, like 12 seconds, and I actually enjoyed those more the second time around. Some of the humour, eg in Pepper the Crime Lab, comes out more clearly when one isn't in a rush to get to the denouement. The only one I couldn't bring myself to reread was the Dal MacLean novella, a Country for Old Men, which I remembered as a bit melodramatic and contrived. Whereas for some people I know it was the highlight of the collection, which just shows how different people can be.
It's very hard to say which story is now my favourite, even though typically my favourite authors in the bunch would be Josh Lanyon and C S Poe. Great characters, great stories, good sex and a lot of value for 1 credit.
Excellent and repays rereading
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The variety of stories kept me going during some tedious travel delays.
Definitely worth a re-listen.
highly recommended
superb collection of MM 'who done it's
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Loved this and read it again
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Excellent Collection!
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The standout of the collection is Dal MacLean’s A Country For Old Men, an atmospheric and beautifully written second-chance love story set on the isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Joel Leslie obviously did his homework on the Gaelic pronunciations and does a great job with the Scottish accents. The story centres around a deeply closeted police inspector called to investigate a murder involving a centuries old artifact – which brings him face-to-face with the love he left behind five years before.
I read and enjoyed C.S. Poe’s Lights, Camera, Murder a couple of years back when the author published it separately. Hard-boiled PI Rory Byrne is hired to go undercover on the set of a TV show to investigate the theft of a script – but his job is complicated when he begins to fall for the show’s gorgeous and talented star, Marion Roosevelt. The mystery is clever and well-thought out, and the romance is sweet. I think the author had intended this to be the start of a series, but she’s been focused on Memento Mori and Magic & Steam the last few years, so I imagine it’s on the back-burner.
In Meg Perry’s Twelve Seconds a journalist receives a mysterous phone call the night before the next shuttle launch – the shuttle (unmanned) explodes just after take-off, and whoever placed the phone call has disappeared. I enjoyed the mystery and the romance in this one, even if there are a couple of plot holes.
Nicole Kimberling’s Entrée to Murder is a cosy mystery featuring a chef who finds a dead body in the basement of his restaurant, and S.C Wynne’s Reality Bites is, I think, the only mystery I’ve ever read in which the murder victim was mauled by a tiger! In Z.A. Maxfield’s Pepper the Crime Lab, Lonnie’s first night in his new apartment is disturbed by a dog’s constant barking coming from next door – and in the morning it appears her owner was murdered. With one of Lonnie’s knives. With the help of his other neighbour – a handsome ex-cop – Lonnie sets about finding out who tried to frame him.
The final story is Josh Lanyon’s Stranger in the House, in which teacher and aspiring artist Miles Tuesday inherits a mansion in Montreal – but something doesn’t feel right. The thing that does feel right, however, is the presence of his childhood crush, art dealer Laurie Palmer. The mystery isn’t expecially complex, but I liked the main characters and their romance.
I did, however, find myself scratching my head over the L.B Gregg story, Blind Man’s Buff. When I first the group who were going to play some kind of game in an abandoned shopping centre I assumed this was a YA story – then I realised they were thirty-something teachers! Which made no sense to me. And neither did the plot, although I admit I lost interest early on.
It's a good collection on the whole, and the narrators do an excellent job. I've been meaning to listen to it for ages and saw it was available in Audible Plus, so I picked it up. But it's great value for a single credit, so I'll probably get myself a copy when it leaves the Plus catalogue.
Enjoyable group of stories expertly narrated
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