![]() ![]() ![]() I ended up being very pleasantly surprised by Murder at Pirate’s Cove, which is a fun, generally light-hearted and fast-moving story featuring a thoroughly endearing hero, a handsome, enigmatic potential love-interest and a suitably quirky cast of secondary characters. ![]() Plus, I’m a book nerd I like it when an author deliberately sets out to use certain stylistic conventions and I like recognising them and seeing how well they’ve been incorporated or upended, according to the author’s intent. ![]() I’m not the greatest fan of cosy mysteries, but I am a fan of the author’s, and was interested to see how she’d tackle something different to her usual output. (Disclaimer: I’m no expert, but Josh Lanyon actually said in a recent interview that these are the first m/m cosies, and I’m inclined to believe she knows what she’s talking about!) Josh Lanyon is known for writing complex, suspenseful mysteries that eschew neither of those things (sex and violence), so her new Secrets and Scrabble series is something of a departure for her and, I’m led to believe, for m/m mysteries in general. The rules of the cosy mystery genre state that there should be no on-page sex or violence, the detective is an amateur sleuth and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. ![]()
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