Somebody Killed his Editor by Josh Lanyon

The road to bestsellerdom can be deadly

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Somebody Killed his Editor

Series: Holmes & Moriarity #1

Pub: 2010 by Samhain Publishing

Author: Josh Lanyon

Genre: Contemporary Mystery, m/m

Format: paperback; 268p w/ 29 chapters

Whose: Kit & JX

                        Synopsis

Thanks to an elderly spinster sleuth and her ingenious cat, Christopher Holmes has enjoyed a celebrated career as a bestselling mystery writer. Until now. Sales are down and his new editor is allergic to geriatric gumshoes. On the advice of his agent, he reinvents his fortyish, frumpy, recently dumped self into the sleek, sexy image of a literary lion, and heads for a Northern California writers conference to try and resurrect his career. A career nearly as dead as the body he stumbles over in the woods. In a weirdly déjà vu replay of one of his own novels, he finds himself stranded in an isolated lodge full of frightened women—and not a lawman in sight. Except for J.X. Moriarity, former cop and bestselling novelist. The man with whom he shared a one-night stand—okay, maybe three—long ago. The man who wants to arrest him for murder. A ruthless, stalking killer, or a hot, handsome ex-lover. Which poses the greater danger? It’s elementary, my dear Holmes!

The Thoughts

So I’ve come to a conclusion that I have read enough Lanyon books that I can talk about this a little differently. One, this book hold all the classic points of Lanyon, though, the highly strung (if not a bit more than most) and an ex-cop.

Though in this one the POV was actually in the wrong on the relationship front, and apologised about this fact. Actually made himself realise, and then fix this point. Which, from what I’ve read, was the weird part.

They are at a writing conference, where Christopher was late, forgot the reason as soon as he set out on foot, but he was late, he was annoyed and he was walking in the rain, where he ran into a body, and all his problems start.

Now, like most Lanyon books, the set up to this one was slow, though normally, the rest of the book is that gripping, that mind-blowingly good that I forget the slowness, but the whole book, had a sluggish pace. Or maybe it’s more the fact that the main story line didn’t hold me, and there wasn’t all that much on the relationship front so there wasn’t anything to counter act the tale.

Saying this, I was gript into the story. I couldn’t put it down, from about chapter 7, stayed up to late reading it. that sort of thing, that happens all so much when reading his work. But, there just wasn’t anything in it, for me, to say it was one of the best.

I will say this, I can’t fucking wait for the next one.

Series

Murder She Wrote, The Boy with the Painful Tattoo

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