Murder in the Garden District (Chanse MacLeod Mysteries Book 5)

And what roles do other strange personalities at the resort have in the swirl of events? Before this whirlwind of a tale is finished, our heroes have confronted not only ghosts and dead bodies, but piranhas, poisonous snakes, crocodiles, murderous drug-dealers and other thugs, an ambiguous Russian count, a transgendered champion boxer, and a number of sexually attractive live bodies for a series of hair-raising adventures, all the while unloading a barrage of campy quips.

Zach increasingly proves his worth in this second of a series set in gay hot spots. Surely few readers can finish reading this third in the campy Turkish Delight series without modifying their vision of the Mideast. The gigolo in question is one Volkan Sandogan, who is found dead with seven stab wounds in a forest outside Istanbul.

Financier Faruk Hanoglu is arrested but soon let go after the intervention of his brother-in-law, lawyer Haluk Pekerdem. War is declared, and wearing any number of fetching outfits, our hero who is also a champion Thai boxer goes into action to apprehend the murderer who has put him into such an untenable position.

All is revealed in a finale right out of an Agatha Christie. After his split from Mike, Kimo himself has engaged in some pretty risky sex, verging on the illegal.

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Will that make him more likely to forgive Mike when he discovers the sparks between the two are far from extinguished? And will Kimo be able to bring the bad guys to justice without a video showing his naked butt in action being used against him and ending his police career?

The heart of the novel is a powerful story about a family of Faulknerian proportions. Throughout, I kept thinking about Absalom, Absalom! The son, Wendell Sheehan, an aspiring politician, is murdered in the hall of his home on St. Charles Avenue, and his mother and his wife each claims the other killed him. More mysterious deaths, past and present, emerge as the case uncoils with all the stateliness of a Greek tragedy. Chanse has just come from seeing his mother, from whom he has been estranged for over a decade.

He is still trying to come to terms with his personal failures at establishing a meaningful relationship with another man, but there are no gay elements to the case itself. Two melodramatic subplots include a killer with a personal vendetta against Chanse and the approach of a hurricane.

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Both distract from the very powerful, dark core of the novel. But before he can do anything with them, the philandering Brandt himself is gunned down on Carmac Street. Is the Opus Dei, the local Cardinal, or some jealous lover behind the murder? The investigation takes the lapsed Catholic not only into the darker corners of gay life there, but also up against the byzantine complexities of the Catholic Church.

This engaging first novel is fairly complex, with a large cast of characters. The third novel in the series disappointed me. There is too much biography and too little mystery for my taste; the interplay between fact and fiction, which made the first two novels such pleasant romps, here seems strained. On his way back from his American tour Oscar becomes involved with a Paris-based acting troupe, the La Grange company.

Relatively late in the novel, a series of mysterious deaths occur; Oscar realizes that they form a bizarre pattern based on the Greek elements and identifies the perpetrator to his friend, Conan Doyle. The fast-paced thriller harks back deliberately to the high days of gay pulp fiction with plenty of sex and loads of action. Their tenth outing takes Albany P. Don soon realizes that something other than ordinary family concern may be behind the case.

With him, ever-liberal Don finally meets his match in sarcasm and wisecracks. The quite comical novel veers from outright farce to tense confrontations, sometimes on the same page. An impressive lineup of the biggest names in gay and lesbian publishing come together to share tales of things that go bump in the night, murder and revenge most foul, and dark creatures that will haunt your dreams, while putting a decidedly queer twist on the literary horror genre. Edited by award-winning authors Greg Herren and J.

Chanse MacLeod Mystery , Book 6. March 12, by Bold Strokes Books. But as New Orleans private eye Chanse MacLeod starts digging around, he discovers that she is the leader of a group fighting the powerful Archdiocese of New Orleans over the closing of two churches. As the trail leads from corrupt church officials to powerful real estate developers to the world of.

Chanse MacLeod Mystery , Book 5. The Sheehans are referred to as "Louisiana's Kennedys," a powerful political dynasty with connections in Baton Rouge and Washington.

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When Warren Sheehan is shot to death in his Garden District mansion, Chanse races to sort out the truth from the many lies surrounding the great family as another hurricane puts New Orleans squarely in its cross hairs. Chanse MacLeod Mystery , Book 4. When Chanse MacLeod is hired to find out who is blackmailing a high profile movie star couple living in the French Quarter, he soon realizes it isn't just on a movie-set where things are make believe.

Against the backdrop of a rebuilding New Orleans, Chanse races to find out the truth about his treacherous clients and to clear his own name. Chanse MacLeod Mystery , Book 3. Six weeks after Hurricane Katrina, an emotionally battered Chanse returns to a New Orleans that is a battered shell of its former vibrant self to try to pull together the shattered pieces of his life. But on arriving, he discovers that his last client before the storm was murdered shortly after she hired him to find her long missing father.

Ann by Greg Herren Series: Chanse MacLeod Mystery , Book 2. Chanse MacLeod is hired to find out who is trying to undermine a new nightclub opening in the French Quarter—but when the nightclub's publicist is murdered, the prime suspect in his boyfriend, Paul—who has a sordid past he carefully hid from Chanse.

And when Paul jumps bail, it's up to Chanse to clear his boyfriend and find him, before it's too late. The second Chanse Macleod mystery. Chanse MacLeod Mystery , Book 1.

A simple blackmail case goes south when Chanse finds the murdered body of his muscleboy client in what appears to be a hate crime. But neither Chanse nor the police are convinced it was a hate crime, despite the frenzy being whipped up in the city by a charismatic but attention-seeking gay rights activist. Scotty Bradley and his sexy boyfriends Colin and Frank are back, and this case is even more crazy and confusing than any of their previous ones!