Whilst this is an LGBT novel, there is no romance in this first volume. The amateur detective is a fascinating character and the crime, and solution, are interesting. Night Drop (Pinx Video Mysteries 1) by Marshall Thornton ***** The characters and their various entanglements are wholly delicious. Each concerns the inevitable problems (and the eventual mm romance) of the sons of a group of noblemen convicted of a treasonous plot. There are three books in a boxed set: Lord Lynster Discovers Lord Heathborough Invests Lord Edwin Falls. I should really mark this down to four star because of Americanisms and coincidences, but I couldn’t put it down. Based on a Russian novel that had good reviews.

Sci fi – very slow and the director seemed more interested in photography than plot. Similarly confusing and unpleasant despite the presence of Will Smith. Gritty and gruesome.Ĭonfusing and unpleasant.

The female doctor with the ensemble team cast of companions continues to try hard to improve our minds.Ī pensioner (Michael Caine) turns to vengeance when a friend is killed. Typical panto, well done and enjoyable, not least for the reactions of the kids in the audience. Pity about the music which was loud and sometimes drowned both dialogue and lyrics (and led to the loss of a star from me). Stunning sets, costumes, choreography and special effects. Sleeping Beauty **** Pantomime at our local theatre. Good police procedural, worth looking out for next season. Swedish crime drama but Beck does very little except preside over a somewhat dysfunctional team. The animals at Chester Zoo continue to be both fascinating and eye candy. The Secret Life of the Zoo (weekly ongoing) ***** The only reliable answer if you want to use Amazon is to type in my name (Jay Mountney) and my author page will show you all my books including this one.

Go figure… Then I managed to get a UK link but at least one friend found it didn’t work. Here are the links – at first for Amazon I could only get a live link for the US site which then redirected me to the UK one. That bodes well for later this week when I have another book to publish. I’m really pleased because for the first time, neither Amazon nor Smashwords had any issues with my formatting and I didn’t (so far as I know) forget anything. If you click on the link at the top right of my WordPress site you’ll find a map of The Kingdom to go with the book. But I think you’d need to read the first book first, because I never intended the volumes to stand alone. The fourth volume in my Skilled Investigators series is now ‘live’ on Amazon and Smashwords.įor anyone who has no idea what I’m talking about, the series features a mix of fantasy and crime with a trainee female elf detective, and has a sub plot of gay romance between the detective’s brother and her training mentor.

Love Can't Conquer by Kim Fielding