After eighteen years with the Los Angeles Police Department, Kevin Brodie is starting his new career as a social worker with the District Attorney's Bureau of Victim Services. He's meshing with his new partner, Jamilah Daly, and his first client encounter goes well. Life is good...except he can't figure out why Jon Eckhoff's victim looks familiar.Jon's first case as a Homicide Special detective is a French artist named Genevieve Lemieux, strangled and tossed into a ravine near the ...

It's 1997 in Oceanside, California. Jamie Brodie is turning seventeen. His grandfather hasn't spoken to him for nearly two years, ever since Jamie came out to his family. But Jamie's concerns are mostly centered on his grades, because it will take a near-perfect GPA to get into Berkeley. He's busy with Advanced Placement classes; spending time with his "friend with benefits," Robbie Harrison; and his weekend landscaping job with his best friend, Ali Fortner.

"Having someone get murdered at your wedding has to be the worst."Scott Deering, cellist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, doesn't usually play weddings. But a friend's family emergency finds him reluctantly anchoring a college string quartet at the wedding of a couple with more money than taste. When his second violinist goes missing after the ceremony, Scott is determined that the show must go on - until the violinist turns up dead and Scott's day goes to hell.Jamie Brodie ...

Jamie Brodie is on deadline. The proposal for his second book is due, and he desperately needs uninterrupted writing time. At the suggestion of patron, friend, and former monk Clinton Kenneally - and over the protests of Pete Ferguson, Jamie's husband - Jamie schedules a week-long writing retreat at a local monastery. But the monastery is not exactly what Jamie expected...which might explain the flicker of disquiet in Clinton's eyes.Meanwhile, Kevin Brodie and Jon Eckhoff are dealin...

Jadon Perkins, age 16, is found dead at his high school track. Jadon ran track and cross-country and was dressed for practice, but there are no witnesses and no obvious cause of death. The autopsy is inconclusive pending toxicology results.Carlos Maroto, age 28, slides into second base at Dodger Stadium, in front of 56,000 fans, and doesn't get up. Everyone assumes that he suffered some kind of cardiac event. But the autopsy shows that Carlos was perfectly ...

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.

Eleven award-winning queer authors come together to spin tales of murder, horror, and suspense all during a Valentine's Day you won't soon forget!From the Introduction by Michael Nava, celebrated author of the Henry Rios mysteries:The stories in Cupid Shot Me fall somewhere between the classic Richard Rodgers tune "My Funny Valentine" and the gangland Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. You'll find bushels of red roses but some may be lethal, and watch what...

It's been exactly six months since space reporter Justin Harris and AFOSI agent Greg Marcotte met, and they have plans for their anniversary weekend. But those plans go badly awry when they receive word that Capt. Melissa Cross, an Air Force officer and former astronaut, has been murdered in her Merritt Island home. While the investigation sends Greg across the country, Justin works his contacts to find out why Capt. Cross was bumped from a mission to the International Space Station. As a ...

He's back…It's been two years since Jamie Brodie was involved in a murder investigation.Jamie and his husband, Pete Ferguson, are living quietly - very quietly - in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Pete stays busy with his part-time counseling job, teaching online, and gardening. Jamie has found very little to occupy his time.When Valentine's Day rolls around, the men decide to go snowboarding. They're having an awesome day on the slopes of Ski Apache when Jamie trips over a...

LAPD detective Jon Eckhoff is jolted awake in the wee hours by a call from his union rep. A video is circulating on social media that supposedly shows Jon shooting a young man to death in a mostly-deserted warehouse.Jon has never shot anyone, in the line of duty or otherwise. To anyone who knows him, the video is clearly a deepfake. But who would do such a thing? Jon doesn't have any enemies.Or does he?Jon is suspended for the duration of the investigation. He can't...

Jamie Brodie and his entire family are on vacation in Scotland, staying at their ancestral home, Brodie Castle. The family's fun is interrupted by a threat of blackmail...then they fall under suspicion when the blackmailer turns up dead. Jamie, Pete, Kevin, and Kristen set out to clear the Brodie name. Along the way they encounter a ghostly sighting, a wild rumor, centuries-old curses, and a massive cover-up. Will they find the truth before the detectives from Police Scotland arrest the wr...

A sniper? In Bel Air?The peace of wealthy Bel Air is shattered on a Friday night by a rifle shot. Anyone who's outdoors in the neighborhood hears the shot, including Kevin Brodie and Kristen Beach, but no one knows where the shot came from or the identity of the intended target…until the next day, when Jamie Brodie brings his dog, Ammo, to Kevin's house.Ammo, a trained cadaver dog, drags Jamie and Kevin up the street about a half-mile then alerts on a house. The officers wh...