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Agatha Christie, move over! Hard-core sex and scandal meet in this brilliantly funny whodunit. A seaside village, an English country house, a family of wealthy eccentrics and their equally peculiar servants, a determined detective — all the ingredients are here for a cozy Agatha Christie-style whodunit. But wait — Edward “Mitch” Mitchell is no Hercule Poirot, and The Back Passage is no Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Mitch is a handsome, insatiable 22-year-old hunk who never lets a clue stand in the way of a steamy encounter, whether it’s with the local constabulary, the house secretary, or his school chum and fellow athlete Boy Morgan, who becomes his Watson when they’re not busy boffing each other. When Reg Walworth is found dead in a cabinet, Sir James Eagle has his servant Weeks immediately arrested as the killer. But Mitch’s observant eye pegs more plausible possibilities: polysexual chauffeur Hibbert, queenly pervert Leonard Eagle, missing scion Rex, sadistic copper Kennington, even Sir James Eagle himself. Blackmail, police corruption, a dizzying network of spyholes and secret passages, watersports, and a nonstop queer orgy backstairs and everyplace else mark this hilariously hard-core mystery by a major new talent.

Move over, Scarlett O’Hara! It’s New England, 1861, and the troubles in the southern states seem a long way off for Jack Edgerton, the spoiled son of a prominent Vermont family. Howver, when he meets and falls in love with Aaron Johnson, the sexy son of a slave on the run from Virginia, Edgerton’s world is turned upside down. Separated by circumstances, the lovers pursue each other through the escalating madness of the Civil War and both find themselves forced to choose sides. After a series of outrageous adventures – including steamy woodland trysts and an impromptu jailhouse orgy that briefly reconciles the warring parties – they are reunited in the Shenandoah Valley in the autumn of 1864 — where the conflict is about to come to a bloody, burning climax.

This extremely graphic novel brims with male sex from the sordid to the sublime, in every position, place, and variety. Watch and enjoy as Paul Lemoyne leaves his humble home to begin a new life as a music hall stagehand, but soon discovers there are richer pickings to be had from the stage-door johnnies who haunt the Palace of Varieties Music Hall. And thus ensues our rake's progress from low-life prostitution to the salons and studios of Mayfair, from the bath-houses of Bermondsey to the rarefied circles of modern art. All the while behind each of Paul's outrageous sexual adventures lurks the mysterious figure of Albert Abbott, his lover, corrupter, and Svengali.

The Flying Scotsman, one of the world’s legendary train journeys, has many attractions for Edward “Mitch” Mitchell, from the obliging porter to the mean guard to a troop of rough-and-ready soldiers in easily lifted kilts in the third-class carriage. But Mitch may not have time for them all before they arrive in London. When the train gets stuck in a tunnel, a dead body is found in the first-class toilet! Ever-ready Mitch decides to intervene and solve the crime. With his new Belgian sidekick Benoit, he pursues the killer through a crazy kaleidoscope of movie stars, drug dealers, royal scandals, and queens of every description. Can he finger the villain before the villain fingers him? What is the connection between Buckingham Palace and a bunch of backstreet pornographers? And what is the mystery of the secret tunnel? Mitch intends to go all the way to figure it all out.

Best friends and sometimes lovers Edward "Mitch" Mitchell and Harry "Boy" Morgan have been in terrible jams before — their adventures of murder, mystery, and unstoppable sex have made The Back Passage and The Secret Tunnel international bestellers. In A Sticky End, Mitch must face the possibility that Boy is involved in the chain of events that led to the suicide of his own colleague and secret paramour, Frank Bartlett. To absolve Boy, Mitch races around London finding clues while bedding the many men eager to lend a hand — or more. The policemen, working class gigolos, steam room bathers, embezzlers, and blackmailers that Mitch comes across create a tasty mystery and satisfying erotic romp.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped has long been considered a masterpiece of high adventure. In The Low Road, James Lear reinvents this classic as a satirical, queer, coming-of-age story. In 1705 Scotland, young Charles Gordon reaches adulthood ignorant of his family's heroic past in the Jacobite Rebellion. He sets out to discover the truth about his father, but instead is kidnapped by mercenaries and sold into slavery as the plaything of a group of corrupt military officials. But Charlie’s talents, in and out of bed, win him powerful friends as well as dangerous foes. The false priest, Lebecque, violent Captain Robert, depraved General Wilmott — all contribute to Charlie’s "education." Eventually leading a makeshift army of sex-crazed layabouts, Charlie faces the might of the English forces. Will he triumph, or is it better to retreat to the safety of his sybaritic lifestyle? James Lear expertly interweaves spies and counterspies, scheming servants and sadistic captains, tavern trysts and prison orgies, into this delightfully erotic work that can take its place alongside his acclaimed novels The Back Passage and Hot Valley.

Killing is easy. Love is... The Hardest Thing James Lear does Lee Child Once a major in the U.S. Army, Dan Stagg fell afoul of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. In his late 30s, tall, and muscular, Dan is prone to violence, always upholding what he views as justice. He’s offered a great deal of money to protect the young male “secretary” of a powerful real estate broker. The vain, shallow—but most of all hot—young man’s idea of protection includes sex. Dan quickly realizes something strange is going on: he’s being used as a shield for a much more sinister operation and must chose between easy money and sex or the ideals that he embodied in the Army. Why should he do the right thing—particularly when the army betrayed him? The Hardest Thing is a sexy gay mystery as only James Lear can write it: filled with lots of gay sexual encounters, romance, sweat, violence, and conspiracy.

Who is trying to kill the members of an elite special ops team that worked off the radar in Iraq in the ''90s? It’s up to Dan Stagg to track down the survivors — the men with whom he stormed an undefended surveillance station, killing everyone inside. And now, many years later, the team is being targeted in what seems like a series of unrelated attacks. Dan teams up with his old comrade Al Benson, once a rising star of the USMC, now a respectable married civilian with a few secrets to hide. As they dig deeper into the secrets of the past, Dan discovers that Benson’s looking for more than just answers. An explosive affair threatens everyone’s future, and connects Dan to a past he thought he’d left behind.

Mitch arrives on the small Mediterranean island of Gozo, taking a holiday to escape from domestic and sexual trouble at home. He’s been invited by Bob Southern, a fellow doctor now working at the army garrison at Valetta, who wants to consult Mitch on "a delicate matter." Bob is concerned by the apparent suicide of a young lance corporal, Ned Southern, who plunged to his death from Gozo’s cliffs. The authorities said he was being blackmailed, but Ned’s grief-stricken lover Alf insists that he was murdered. Suspecting an official cover-up of a queer scandal, Mitch gets to work on an investigation that leads him into a labyrinth of lies, false identities and secret sex. As another body is washed up on the rocks, a gallery of suspects begins to form. Claire Sutherland, the ageing stage star who knows all the gossip on the island; Henry Jessop, the beautiful youth who may not be as innocent as he looks; Joseph Vella, a ladies’ man with a deadly secret; Major Telford, whose "artistic" photographs of the island men may tell a more sinister story… With tension, humor and plenty of Mitch Mitchell’s exuberant sexual encounters, The Sun Goes Down cranks up the Mediterranean heat!

To all appearances, Joe Heath is a typical straight married man, living with his wife and two teenage children, commuting to work, playing sports, enjoying a beer… But there are things about Joe that his friends don’t know. For one thing, his relationship with his wife has deteriorated to the point that they’re sleeping in separate bedrooms, only staying together until the kids have left home. And there’s something else: for the last few years, Joe has wanted to have sex with another man. A chance encounter with a trainer at his gym launches Joe on a series of encounters – some casual, some serious, some comic, some dangerous, all of them erotic in the way that only James Lear can make them. Soon Joe is living a double life: breadwinner and father by day, sexual adventurer by night?his hunting ground the online dating sites that give him access to anyone and anything he wants. While My Wife’s Away is a hot read, but it’s also an odyssey of self-discovery, as Joe tests the limits of his new freedom. Can he survive in a world of instant sexual gratification? And will he ever find someone to love?

Dan Stagg is dead . . . At least, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, he died in a bomb blast in Baghdad. In the Ring brings Dan Stagg to James Bond territory in an exciting story of concealed identities, beautiful double agents, corruption, power, and, of course, plenty of sex. With a new identity and some high-tech gadgets, the tough USMC officer goes deep undercover to penetrate an extreme right-wing terror group. On loan to the CIA and MI6, Dan travels to England to investigate a corrupt boxing promoter and his stable of vulnerable, sexually compliant, young athletes. Posing as a martial arts instructor, Dan is drawn into a shadowy world of blackmail, prostitution, and pornography, where sex and money are in constant supply. Can Dan hold on to his true identity and complete the mission, or will he choose a new life working for the shadowy mastermind, Alan Vaughan? A series of erotic, romantic, and deadly encounters brings Dan face-to-face with the ugly political and criminal truth beneath the seductive surface of his new life?but is it too late to save himself?

James Lear does Lee Child in his latest sexy and suspenseful mystery. Dan Stagg is an ex-military man who fell foul of Don't Ask Don't Tell. Like Jack Reacher, he's prone to violence, always upholding what he views as justice. With no personal ties and little money, Dan accepts a job protecting a young male 'secretary' of a powerful real estate developer. The young man in question is vain, shallow and very attractive - and it's clear that is idea of 'protection' includes sex. Soon Dan realises that he's being used as a shield for a much more sinister operation...

Er ist ein Sherlock Holmes der ganz besonderen Art: Mitch Mitchell ist zweiundzwanzig, gut aussehend und wild entschlossen, den Mordfall in Drekeham Hall, dem Landsitz der Familie Eagle, aufzuklären. Auf der Suche nach dem Mörder geht er keinem noch so delikaten Abenteuer aus dem Weg. Ob mit den örtlichen Ermittlern, dem Sekretär des Hauses oder seinem Assistenten Boy Morgan: Seine unkonventionelle Fahndungsmethode macht auch vor der Intimsphäre von Zeugen und Verdächtigen nicht halt - und führt zu manch unerwarteter Enthüllung.

Die lange Zugfahrt von Edinburgh nach London gestaltet sich für Mitch Mitchell erfreulich kurzweilig. Muskulöse Gepäckträger, stramme Wachmänner und blutjunge Soldaten in Kilts machen dem Detektiv die Entscheidung schwer: Wem soll er sich zuerst zuwenden? Während er noch zögert, bleibt der Zug in einem Tunnel stecken, und in der Toilette wird eine Leiche gefunden. Mitch, wie immer zu allem bereit, beschließt, den Fall auf eigene Faust zu lösen. Als echter Gentleman weiß er natürlich, dass er dem Mörder nur mit viel Körpereinsatz auf die Spur kommen kann ... Wie schon in "Durch die Hintertür" geben der Detektiv und sein bestes Stück alles, um den Täter dingfest zu machen.

Boy Morgan, bester Freund und Gelegenheitsliebhaber von Mitch Mitchell, steht unter Verdacht, seinen Auftraggeber Frank Bartlett in den Selbstmord getrieben zu haben. Um Boys Unschuld zu beweisen, macht sich Mitch in ganz London auf die Suche nach dem wahren Übeltäter. Doch die ersehnten Hinweise haben ihren Preis, und so muss Mitch nicht nur seinen scharfen Verstand, sondern auch seine körperlichen Reize einsetzen, um strammen Polizisten, frivolen Saunagästen und gerissenen Gigolos aus dem Arbeiterviertel Informationen zu entlocken. Eine explosive Mischung aus Spannung, Erotik und einem mysteriösen Todesfall - mit "Der letzte Akt" bringt James Lear seine Mitch-Mitchell-Trilogie zu einem fulminanten Abschluss.

Nach zwölf Jahren im US Marine Corps hält sich Dan Stagg als Türsteher eines New Yorker Clubs gerade so über Wasser - bis er auch diesen Job verliert. Da taucht plötzlich ein geheimnisvoller Fremder mit einem mysteriösen Auftrag in seinem Apartment auf: Stagg soll den jungen Sekretär eines mächtigen Immobilienspekulanten unter höchster Geheimhaltung sicher von New York nach New Hampshire geleiten. Der zähe Ex-Marine ist zwar misstrauisch, lässt sich aber auf das Vorhaben ein. Eine Entscheidung, die ihn in ein Geflecht aus Intrigen, Sex und Verbrechen manövriert. Denn die zu schützende Ware ist heißer, als er dachte …