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Dorien Grey
Full Series List in Order
A Dick Hardesty Mystery
The Popsicle Tree (Jan-2005)The Dream Ender (Jun-2007)
The Angel Singers (Jul-2008)
The Secret Keeper (Nov-2009)
The Bar Watcher (Aug-2011)
The Peripheral Son (Nov-2011)
An Elliott Smith and John Mystery
His Name Is John (May-2008)Aaron's Wait (Jul-2009)
Caesar's Fall (Nov-2010)
Dante's Circle (Aug-2012)
Book List in Order: 22 titles
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The Popsicle Tree
- Jan-2005
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Following the death of the parents of Jonathan’s four-year-old nephew Joshua, Dick and his partner find themselves in a new role: parents. As if fatherhood didn’t bring enough of a set of challenges, the mother of one of Joshua’s new friends is...
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Aaron's Wait
- Jul-2009
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Aaron Stiles is dead. He’s been dead for four years but doesn’t seem to know it. He’s waiting for his partner Bill to come home, and until that happens, he’s not going anywhere. The trouble is, Bill Somers won’t be coming home -- ever -- be...
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Short Circuits: A Life in Blogs
- Jun-2011
- / General Fiction
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Lambda-nominated author Dorien Grey (The Dick Hardesty Mysteries, The Elliott Smith Mysteries) knows more than just how to write a great murder novel. He's also had amazing life experiences in the military and around the world. Here, for the first ti...
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Dante's Circle
- Aug-2012
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Dante Benevetti is the darling of the music world…and why not? He’s handsome, talented -- and arrogant as only a man convinced of his own brilliance can be. As far as he’s concerned, the rest of the world exists for his benefit. So, when he hea...
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The Serpent's Tongue
- Feb-2014
- / Private Investigator
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When Dick Hardesty is hired to look into threats against former priest Dan Stabile, possibly from someone whose confession Dan heard while still in the priesthood, it’s just another case. Then, on a stormy Sunday, on a rain-slick road, Dan is kille...
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The Ninth Man
- Feb-2015
- / Private Investigator
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Dick Hardesty is hired to investigate the mysterious death of a client’s lover. The police assume the death is drug related. In the course of his investigation Dick learns of eight similar deaths, all seemingly unrelated. The victims had nothing in...
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The Hired Man
- Jul-2015
- / Private Investigator
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When private investigator Dick Hardesty is hired by businessman Stuart Anderson to conduct routine background checks on potential store managers, he becomes reacquainted with a former trick, Phil Stark, who has undergone an amazing transformation fro...
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The Good Cop
- Oct-2015
- / Private Investigator
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All Tom Brady wanted was to be a good cop; to keep a low profile and prove to a notoriously homophobic police department undergoing its own internal upheavals that gays deserved the right to be among them. But when he and old friend Dick Hardesty go ...
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The Bottle Ghosts
- Dec-2015
- / Private Investigator
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Hired to find a missing man -- an alcoholic -- Dick Hardesty discovers that an unusual number of alcoholic gay men have vanished within a relatively short period and never heard from again. Clues lead him to a support group f...
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The Dirt Peddler
- Feb-2016
- / Private Investigator
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Arrogant and homophobic Tony T. Tunderew, author of a muckraking bestie;;er, hires Dick Hardesty to look into blackmail threats he’s been receiving. When Tunderew and a male hustler die in a mysterious car crash, Dick’s invest...
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The Role Players
- Apr-2016
- / Private Investigator
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Dick and his lover, Jonathan, finally manage to take a vacation, and it is, to some extent, a sentimental journey for Dick -- it is to New York City, the site of former adventures, and where his former lover is now settled in with a new lover, Max, w...
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The Paper Mirror
- Jun-2016
- / Private Investigator
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At the gala opening of a new library filled with homosexual writings collected by the late Charles Burrows, known for both his taste in writing, as well as his eccentricity, Dick Hardesty and his partner Jonathan are enjoying a rare night out since f...