I’ve been on duty since six this morning. “Don’t you want to know what I have to say?” I asked, unable to wait any longer. He took a drink of his coffee, stirred in a spoon of sugar, then tasted it again, all with agonizing slowness. Once again he’d defaulted to that deceptively quiet manner of talking. “Closest thing to a donut shop in town.” He shrugged out of his jacket before taking a seat opposite me.

I ordered two fried eggs and a Bloody Mary. The waitress automatically brought Mac coffee with cream and gave me an even shiftier look than before. If I could somehow have removed the cop badge from my field of vision, he might have even been attractive. He took off his mirror shades and his hat and raked his fingers through his hair, which improved his visual aesthetic. But please, call me Mac.” He turned from the bar with clear reluctance and gestured to a booth. “Excuse me, Deputy.” I rushed up behind him before he sat down at the bar. When I walked through the door, the waitress gave me a nervous, shifty look, which told me she knew who I was and what had happened. Josh is married and lives in Southern California. She is an EPIC Award winner, a four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist (twice for Gay Mystery), an Edgar nominee, and the first ever recipient of the Goodreads All Time Favorite M/M Author award. In 2019, Fatal Shadows became the first LGBTQ mobile game created by Moments: Choose Your Story. The Adrien English series was awarded the All Time Favorite Couple by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group. In 2016 Fatal Shadows placed #5 in Japan’s annual Boy Love novel list (the first and only title by a foreign author to place on the list). Stranger on the Shore (HarperCollins Italia) was the first M/M title to be published in print. Her FBI thriller Fair Game was the first Male/Male title to be published by Harlequin Mondadori, then the largest romance publisher in Italy. Author of over sixty titles of classic Male/Male fiction featuring twisty mystery, kickass adventure, and unapologetic man-on-man romance, JOSH LANYON’S work has been translated into eleven languages.

Footsteps in the Dark by L.B. Gregg