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  • Bibliography:
    119 Books (14 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2001
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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About the Author

Josh Lanyon is a female author.

Full Series List in Order

Adrien English

1 - Fatal Shadows (Apr-2001)
2 - A Dangerous Thing (Nov-2001)
3 - The Hell You Say (Nov-2007)
4 - Death of a Pirate King (Sep-2008)
5 - The Dark Tide (Feb-2010)
6 - Stranger Things Have Happened (Jan-2014)
7 - So This is Christmas (Jan-2017)

All's Fair

1 - Fair Game (Aug-2010)
2 - Fair Play (Nov-2014)
3 - Fair Chance (Mar-2017)

The Art of Murder

1 - The Mermaid Murders (Feb-2016)
2 - The Monet Murders (Apr-2017)
3 - The Magician Murders (Feb-2018)
4 - The Monuments Men Murders (Jul-2019)

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1 - Mainly by Moonlight (Aug-2019)
2 - I Buried a Witch (Dec-2019)
3 - Bell, Book and Scandal (Mar-2021)

Dangerous Ground

1 - Dangerous Ground (Apr-2012)
2 - Old Poison (Nov-2011)
3 - Blood Heat (Sep-2012)
4 - Dead Run (Sep-2011)
5 - Kick Start (Dec-2013)

Dark Horse

1 - The Dark Horse (Feb-2012)
2 - The White Knight (Feb-2012)

Doyle and Spain

1 - Snowball in Hell (Apr-2011)

Haunted Heart

1 - The Haunted Heart: Winter (Sep-2013)

Holmes and Moriarity

1 - Somebody Killed His Editor (Jun-2009)
2 - All She Wrote (Oct-2011)
3 - The Boy with the Painful Tattoo (Oct-2014)

I Spy

1 - I Spy Something Bloody (May-2012)
2 - I Spy Something Wicked (Nov-2011)
3 - I Spy Something Christmas (Dec-2012)

In a Dark Wood

1 - In a Dark Wood (Oct-2011)
2 - The Parting Glass (Oct-2013)

Secrets and Scrabble

1 - Murder at Pirate's Cove (Mar-2020)
2 - Secret at Skull House (Apr-2020)
3 - Mystery at the Masquerade (May-2021)
4 - Scandal at the Salty Dog (May-2021)
5 - Body at Buccaneer's Bay (Jan-2022)

A Shot in the Dark

1 - This Rough Magic (May-2011)

XOXO Files

1 - Mummy Dearest (Oct-2011)

Multi-Author Series List

Petit Morts

2 - Slings and Arrows (Feb-2010)
4 - Other People's Weddings (Feb-2011)
7 - Sort of Stranger than Fiction (Nov-2010)
9 - Critic's Choice (Nov-2010)
14 - Just Desserts (Oct-2011)

Book List in Order: 119 titles



  • One sunny morning Los Angeles bookseller and aspiring mystery author Adrien English opens his front door to murder. His old high school buddy (and employee) has been found stabbed to death in a back alley following a loud and very public argument wit...



  • In this second LA-based adventure, bookseller Adrien English arrives at the Pine Shadow Ranch (left to him by a beloved grandmother) to find a corpse in his driveway. But by the time the unfriendly local sheriffs arrive, the body has disappeared. ...



  • The third novel in the Adrien English series finds the "ill-starred and bookish" mystery writer and bookseller battling demons--maybe literally. After bookstore clerk Angus flees following terrifying death threats, Adrien must contend with a mysterio...




  • His romantic weekend in ruins, shy twenty-something artist Perry Foster learns that things can always get worse when he returns home from San Francisco to find a dead body in his bathtub. A dead body in a very ugly sportscoat--and matching socks. The...



  • Aspiring astronaut Daniel survives a helicopter wreck only to disappear into Vietnam's bamboo jungles. Armed with little but rage, Hutch dismantles the undergrowth to find him. Federal agent Will Brandt walks at gunpoint into California's High Sierra...



  • Footsteps in The Dark Partners in Crime 3 By Josh Lanyon & Sarah Black Spy Something Bloody Espionage was always a game, but now British spy Mark Hardwicke wants to retire and settle down with ex-lover Dr. Stephen Thorpe -- if Stephen will have him. ...




  • #4 in the PARTNERS IN CRIME SERIES! Lovers and Other Strangers by Josh Lanyon Recovering from a near fatal accident, artist Finn Barret returns to Seal Island in Maine to rest and recuperate. But Seal Island is haunted with memories, some sweet, some...








  • Valentine Strange, late of his Majesty's 21st Benhali Lancers, needs money. Happily, the wealthy Holy Orders of Harappu are desperate to retrieve the diadem of the Goddess Purya from an ancient temple deep in the mountainous jungle-an area Strange kn...





  • Don't talk to strangers, young man-especially the dead ones. It's the Roaring Twenties. Skirts are short, crime is rampant and booze is in short supply. Prohibition has hit Little Egypt, where newspaperman David Flynn has come to do a follow-up story...



  • Fed up with his desk duty in the Imperial Arcane Library, book hunter Colin Bliss accepts a private commission to find The Sword's Shadow, a legendary and dangerous witches' grimoire. But to find the book, Colin must travel to the remote Western Isle...



  • A crippling knee injury forced Elliot Mills to trade in his FBI badge for dusty chalkboards and bored college students. Now a history professor at Puget Sound university, the former agent has put his old life behind him -- but it seems his old life i...



  • If there’s one thing film critic Crispin Colley can say about his ex-boyfriend Rey, it’s that Rey likes to remain friends with all his former lovers. Rey’s a friendly guy. Maybe too friendly, judging by the incident that drove the first and las...

















  • Broken in body and crippled in spirit, Ridge Baneberry sees death as the only way out. Not his death, of course -- the death of his obnoxious cousin, Raleigh, the one who was responsible for the accident. It’s not easy plotting the perfect murder f...







  • It's All Hallow's Eve and Mark Hardwicke's past has come back to haunt him. The Old Man needs Mark to go on one last mission to the wild, lonely hills of Afghanistan -- a mission Mark knows he can't survive. Even if he does make it back, Stephen has ...



  • A print reader's delight. Thirteen short stories, five never before collected in print, written between 2007 and 2013. Sexy, sweet, and occasionally strange, these brief but emotionally powerful stories encapsulate everything readers of Male Male rom...





  • Recovering from a near fatal accident, artist Finn Barret returns to Seal Island in Maine to rest and recuperate. But Seal Island is haunted with memories, some sweet, some sad; three years ago Finn found his lover in the arms of Fitch, Finn's twin b...



  • Friends, partners, and now lovers.

    If it was complicated before, it's even trickier now that Will has been assigned a case which guarantees he'll be working side-by-side with ex-boyfriend David Bradley. As for Taylor, newly recovered from hi...



  • Nothing cracks Army Ranger "Stone Man" Vic Black's granite front. A mission to retrieve an injured Navy SEAL from the treacherous mountains of Afghanistan is all in a day's work - until he learns the missing SEAL is his former lover. Th...





  • Fifty years ago a glamorous Hollywood party ended in murder -- the only clue a bloody Tarot card. Timothy North is trying to find out what happened that long ago summer's night, but when a Tarot card turns up pinned to his front door, the only person...



  • Actor Sean Fairchild has a not-so-secret admirer: a psycho stalker who thinks taking out the sexy, shy young actor will leave the world a better place. His manager insists Sean needs protection, and Sean’s beginning to think he’s right.It’s a H...






  • Actor Sean Fairchild has a not-so-secret admirer: a psycho stalker who thinks taking out the sexy, shy young actor will leave the world a better place. His manager insists Sean needs protection, and Sean’s beginning to think he’s right.It’s a H...



  • Over a century ago Illusionist David Berkeley committed suicide in his mansion by the sea, thus dooming his restless spirit to wander forever. Or so the local legend goes. Professor Rhys Davies, a part-time parapsychologist, is writing a book on Cali...



  • A shadowy NATO agency tasked with policing magical creatures from other realms links these four novellas crafted by prolific collaborators Kimberling, Amara, Hale (Hell Cop), and Lanyon (the Adrien English series). In “Cherries Worth Getting,&r...



  • Special Agents for the Department of Diplomatic Security, Taylor MacAllister and Will Brandt have been partners forever and lovers for three months, but their new relationship is threatened when Will is offered a plum two-year assignment in Paris.Wil...



  • He was chuckling, a deep, sexy sound as he pushed Peter back on the satiny cushions. Was this for real? Was he going to go through with it? Peter blinked up as his tie was unfastened, tossed aside, his shirt unbuttoned, laid wide. The evening breeze ...



  • Espionage was always a game, but now British spy Mark Hardwicke wants to retire and settle down with ex-lover Dr. Stephen Thorpe -- if Stephen will have him. Unfortunately, Stephen has other plans -- and so do the terrorists who want Mark dead....



  • Wyatt loves Grahaem. Grahaem is still in love with Jase. But things could be worse. They could be camping. Oh....



  • Message in a bottle. Somewhere in the cobwebbed cellar of the decrepit antebellum mansion known as Ballineen are the legendary Lee bottles -- and Austin Gillespie is there to find them. The last thing on his mind is hot and heavy romance with hand...



  • Collected for the first time in print! Special Agents for the Department of Diplomatic Security, Taylor MacAllister and Will Brandt have been partners and best friends for three years. But everything changes the night Taylor admits the truth about hi...



  • Special Agents for the Department of Diplomatic Security, Taylor MacAllister and Will Brandt have been partners forever and lovers for three months, but their new relationship is threatened when Will is offered a plum two-year assignment in Paris.Wil...






  • France, 1916. The Great War. High above the carnage in the trenches, British and German aces joust like knights of old for control of the skies. The strain and tension of living every day on the edge of death leads to dangerous choices and wild risks...






  • THE I SPY STORIES --I SPY SOMETHING BLOODY Espionage was always a game, but now British spy Mark Hardwicke wants to retire and settle down with ex-lover Dr. Stephen Thorpe -- if Stephen will have him. Unfortunately, Stephen has other plans -- and so ...







  • For less than a dollar a piece, sample five deliously bittersweet novelettes, ten to twelve thousand words in length, each story a standalone and complete in itself. The Petit Mort stories are framed around a mysterious Tim Burton-esque chocolate sho...







  • Twenty years ago, little Brian Arlington was kidnapped from his family's Long Island estate and was never seen again. The trail went cold, but investigative journalist Griff Hadley has always thought there was more to the story -- much more. When the...



  • Connor loves teaching. He loves working with kids, he loves feeling like he’s making a difference. And the kids -- and parents -- seem to love him. Until the afternoon he makes a small error in judgment, and an angry father’s thoughtless comments...



  • It’s moving day at Chez Holmes. Somehow, against Kit’s better instincts, he and J.X. are setting up house together. But while J.X. is off at a mystery fiction convention, Kit unpacks a crate that should contain old china. It doesn’t. Within the...



  • Fifty years ago, Roland Mills belonged to a violent activist group. Now, someone is willing to kill to prevent him from publishing his memoirs.When ex-FBI agent Elliot Mills is called out to examine the charred ruins of his childhood home, he quickly...



  • Talk about Kitchen Nightmares! TV Chef Rocky and Foodie Blogger Jesse have been pals forever, so it should have been the most natural thing in the world to kick their relationship up a notch. Instead, it turned out to be a disaster. But Christmas is ...



  • Four heartwarming holiday stories. Rest and Be Thankful Things haven’t been going well for Cam McMorrow since he moved to Inverbechie. His business is failing, his cottage is falling apart and following his very public argument with cafĂ© owner Ro...



  • The much-requested digital collection of Josh’s most popular short stories written between 2007 and 2013. Eight stories of adventure and contemporary romance. Included here are “Perfect Day”, “A Limited Engagement”, “In Sunshine or In Sha...



  • Graham thinks Wyatt would feel more secure if they were married. Wyatt doesn’t want to spoil Graham’s wedding plans. So who’s really doing who a favor?(This 9.5K short story is the sequel to Perfect Day)...



  • Clever and ambitious, Special Agent Adam Darling (yeah, he's heard all the jokes before) was on the fast track to promotion and success until his mishandling of a high profile operation left one person dead and Adam "On the Beach." Now he's got a new...




  • Ten years ago Cosmo Bari vanished, taking with him his legendary masterpiece, Virgin in Pastel. Since that day no one in the seaside art colony of Steeple Hill has heard from the eccentric painter. Surrounded by an extended family of Cosmo’s colorf...



  • Fresh out of college and recently dumped by his long-time girlfriend, shy and bookish Jefferson Blythe is touring Europe using an inherited vintage copy of Esquire Magazine's ''Europe in Style.'' Jefferson Blythe, Esquire is about old maps, new ad...



  • Christmas on Catalina Island--it's just what the doctor ordered.Injured in the line of duty, FBI Special Agent Shane Donovan is longing for a few days of peace and quiet. Some nice meals, a couple of good books, and maybe a bottle of the best. No fa...



  • Special Agent Jason West is seconded from the FBI Art Crime Team to temporarily partner with disgraced, legendary “manhunter” Sam Kennedy when it appears that Kennedy’s most famous case, the capture and conviction of a serial killer known as Th...



  • Out of the Blue Grieving over the death of his lover, British flying ace Bat Bryant accidentally kills the man threatening him with exposure. The Dark Farewell It's the Roaring Twenties. Skirts are short, crime is rampant, and booze is in short supp...



  • Three years ago investigative reporter Parker Davidson barely survived a brutal attack by his psychopathic ex-boyfriend. It’s given him a dim view of romance.When Parker’s ex escapes from a maximum security prison, LAPD Lieutenant Henry Stagge is...



  • Four of Josh Lanyon's most popular crime novellas collected for the first time in print. Lovers and Other Strangers â€" Recovering from a near-fatal accident, artist Finn Barret returns to Seal Island in Maine to rest and recuperate. But Seal Island ...



  • Felix Day, author of the Constantine Sphinx mysteries, and Leonard Fuller, author of the Inspector Fez mysteries, are bitter rivals and the best of enemies. Both happen to present when a notorious author of roman Ă  clef is shot by an invisible assai...






  • More Happy Ever Afters for the Holidays! In 2012 I began a holiday tradition of writing holiday codas for some of my -- and your -- favorite stories. I ran the codas on my blog and left them up there for readers to enjoy all year round.At the request...



  • God Help You Merry Gentlemen… Arriving home early after spending Christmas in jolly old England, sometimes amateur sleuth Adrien English discovers alarming developments at Cloak and Dagger Books -- and an old acquaintance seeking help in finding a ...





  • Jason West and Sam Kennedy are back! All those late night conversations when Sam had maybe a drink too many or Jason was half falling asleep. All those playful, provocative comments about what they’d do when they finally met up again. Well, here th...



  • With resources already overstretched, the last thing Will and Taylor need is another client. And the last thing Will needs is for that client to turn out to be an old boyfriend of Taylor's.But Ashe Dekker believes someone is trying to kill him, and T...



  • When his enigmatic partner takes off on an annual fishing trip, City of Angeles gumshoe Barry Fitzgerald is left to handle an All Hallows’ Eve kidnapping case on his own. The victim? A murdered millionaire’s penny-pinching son and heir. The culpr...



  • If Only in My Dreams Christmas Stories, Volume One Icecapade Though he leaves FBI Agent Robert Cuffe a drunken phone message every New Year’s Eve, former jewel thief Noel Snow hasn’t seen or heard from his ex-lover and old arch-adversary in a dec...



  • For the last fourteen years, former celebrated Boy Detective Merle Madison has been trying to build a grown-up career for himself as a private investigator. There are just two problems: there’s not a lot of serious crime in the small town of Hayven...



  • To live and draw in L.A.

    Now living in Los Angeles with former navy SEAL Nick Reno, artist Perry Foster comes to the rescue of elderly and eccentric Horace Daly, the legendary film star of such horror classics as Why Won’t You Die, My Darli...



  • Nothing up his sleeves. Nothing but murder…Jason West, hot-shot special agent with the FBI’s Art Crime Team, is at the Wyoming home of Behavioral Analysis Unit Chief Sam Kennedy, recuperating from a recent hit-and-run accident, when he’s asked ...



  • A librarian finds himself in a plot right out of one of his favorite mystery novels Librarian Carter Matheson is determined to enjoy himself on a Scottish bus tour for fans of mystery author Dame Vanessa Rayburn. Sure, his ex, Trevor, will also be...



  • Mystery author and sometimes amateur sleuth Christopher Holmes is settling into domesticity with his sometimes rival, sometimes nemesis J.X. Moriarity when he learns aa body has been discovered in the backyard of his former home. To complic...





  • A wild and dangerous ride takes two lonely men into uncharted territory…

    1943 Montana. Returning home to Montana after being wounded in the Pacific, Police Chief Robert Garrett was hoping for a little much needed Peace on Earth and Goodwill...



  • Someone is watching. Someone is waiting.

    Despite having attracted the attention of a dangerous stalker, Special Agent Jason West is doing his best to keep his mind on his job and off his own troubles.But his latest case implicates one of ...



  • A gay high-society wedding. A stolen book of spells. A love-threatening lie.

    Can a witch avoid a murder rap without revealing the supernatural truth?

    Cosmo Saville guiltily hides a paranormal secret from his soon-to-be husban...



  • Something old, something new, something borrowed…something blacker than the darkest night.

    Cosmo Saville adores his new husband but his little white lies -- and some very black magic -- are about to bring their fairytale romance to an ...




  • Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, Scrabble champion, and guy-with-worst-luck-in-the-world-when-it-comes-to-dating, is ready to make a change. So when he learns he's inherited both a failing bookshop and a falling-down mansion in the quaint seaside ...



  • Ellery Page is back--and in hot water again! Unlike everyone else in Pirate's Cove, Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, reigning Scrabble champion, and occasionally clueless owner of the village's only mystery bookstore, is anything but thrilled when...




  • Black Magic. Blackmail. Little Black Books. Must a witch break his vows to save his marriage?

    Cosmo Saville loves that his husband has finally accepted his witchy ways. And in return, his promise to stay out of police business guarantees the...



  • Love is in the Salt Sea Air--and So is Murder!Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, reigning Scrabble champion, and occasionally clueless owner of the village's only mystery bookstore, the Crow's Nest, is both flattered and bemused when he's invited to...



  • Mystery Stalks the Cobbled Streets of Pirate's CoveWho or what is haunting elderly recluse Juliet Blackwell, what does it have to do with mysterious goings-on at the Salty Dog Pub-and why is any of it mystery bookshop owner Ellery Page's problem? Acc...



  • A wickedly delightful witches' brew of Mystery, Magic and MarriageMainly by MoonlightA gay high-society wedding. A stolen book of spells. A love-threatening lie. Can Cosmo Saville avoid a murder rap without revealing the truth of his supernatural her...





  • Mystery Bookshop owner Ellery Page and Police Chief Jack Carson are diving for the legendary sunken pirate galleon Blood Red Rose when they discover an old fashioned diver's suit, water-damaged and encrusted with barnacles. Further examination reveal...



  • Murder: Live and in TechnicolorWorking undercover gives FBI Art Crime Team agent Jason West the illusion that he's safe from his stalker, Dr. Jeremy Kyser. Though film history and preservation are not Jason's area of expertise, he's intrigued by the ...



  • When mystery bookstore owner and sometimes-amateur sleuth Ellery Page discovers a vintage diving collection bag full of antique gold coins tucked away for safe keeping in the stockroom of The Crow's Nest, it sets off a series of increasingly dangerou...



  • For museum curator Andrew Allison, the sleepy little Maine village of Safehaven has always lived up to its name-until now. Fleeing an abusive relationship, Andy has returned to Safehaven for a few weeks while he figures out the future and helps his e...




  • Fakes, folk music, and ghost firesWhen legendary folk singer Lara Fairplay agrees to make her comeback debut at Pirate's Cove's annual maritime music festival, everyone in the quaint seaside village is delighted-including mystery bookstore owner and ...



  • Two can play at this game.Fledging PI Zachariah Davies's wealthy and eccentric client, toymaker Alton Beacher, wants to hire an investigator who can pose as his boyfriend while figuring out who is behind the recent attempts on his life. And Zach, str...



  • How The Cookie CrumbledAs sole heir to the Bredahl Cookies and Cakes fortune, Casper led a comfortable, happy-go-lucky life. Some would say, a charmed life.Sure, there were challenges: relentless pressure to join the family business, and his unrequit...



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    The decades-old disappearance of twenty-one-year-old teaching student Deirdre O'Donnell is the Holy Grail for true-crime buffs—and Skylar Brennan, the host of the Ugly Town podcast, is no exception. In fact, on the mean streets of the internet...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Josh Lanyon has published 119 books.

Josh Lanyon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Lemon Drop Kid, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows, was published in April 2001.

Yes. Josh Lanyon has 14 series.