Bøger af Rhys Ford

Murder and Mayhem: Book TwoWhoever said blood was thicker than water never stood in a pool of it.Retiring from stealing priceless treasures seemed like a surefire way for Rook Stevens to stay on the right side of the law. The only cop in his life should have been his probably-boyfriend, Los Angeles Detective Dante Montoya, but that's not how life-his life-is turning out. Instead, Rook ends up not only standing in a puddle of his cousin Harold's blood but also being accused of Harold's murder and sleeping with Harold's wife.For Dante, loving the former thief means his once-normal life is now a sea of chaos, especially since Rook seems incapable of staying out of trouble-or keeping trouble from following him home. When Rook is tagged as a murder suspect by a narrow-focused West LA detective, Dante steps in to pull his lover out of the quagmire Rook's landed in.When the complicated investigation twists around on them, the dead begin to stack up, forcing the lovers to work together. Time isn't on their side, and if they don't find the killer before another murder, Dante will be visiting Rook in his prison cell-or at his grave.

415 Ink: Book OneThe hardest thing a rebel can do isn't standing up for something-it's standing up for himself.Life takes delight in stabbing Gus Scott in the back when he least expects it. After Gus spends years running from his past, present, and the dismal future every social worker predicted for him, karma delivers the one thing Gus could never-would never-turn his back on: a son from a one-night stand he'd had after a devastating breakup a few years ago.Returning to San Francisco and to 415 Ink, his family's tattoo shop, gave him the perfect shelter to battle his personal demons and get himself together until the firefighter who'd broken him walked back into Gus's life.For Rey Montenegro, tattoo artist Gus Scott was an elusive brass ring, a glittering prize he hadn't the strength or flexibility to hold on to. Severing his relationship with the mercurial tattoo artist hurt, but Gus hadn't wanted the kind of domestic life Rey craved, leaving Rey with an aching chasm in his soul.When Gus's life and world starts to unravel, Rey helps him pick up the pieces, and Gus wonders if that forever Rey wants is more than just a dream.

Fortsetzung zu Dirty KissEin Titel der Ein Cole-McGinnis-Krimi SerieKim Jae-Min zu lieben ist nicht immer leicht: Jae furchtet sich davor, als offen schwuler Mann zu leben, wahrend der zum Privatdetektiv gewordene ehemalige Polizist Cole McGinnis es nicht anders kennt. Auch wenn er Jaes Sorgen versteht. Koreaner aus traditionellen Familien sind nicht schwul - zumindest nicht dort, wo man sie sehen kann.Doch Cole muss sich auch auf anderes als die Probleme seines Freundes konzentrieren. Er hat einen Auftrag. Als die Sngerin Scarlet ihn darum bittet, Park Dae-Hoon zu finden, einen schwulen Koreaner, der seit beinahe zwei Jahrzehnten verschwunden ist, versinkt Cole in der verworrenen Welt reicher koreanischer Familien, in denen Verpflichtungen und Politik dazu fhren, dass persnliches Glck fr den Erhalt des Geschftsimperiums geopfert wird. Bald hufen sich scheinbar zusammenhanglos die Leichen an. Mit jedem Schritt zur Aufklrung von Dae-Hoons Schicksal segnet eine weitere Person das Zeitliche - und ein geliebter Mensch knnte als Nchstes auf der Liste des Mrders stehen.

Welcome to Dim Sum Asylum: a San Francisco where it's a ho-hum kind of case when a cop has to chase down an enchanted two-foot-tall shrine god statue with an impressive Fu Manchu mustache that's running around Chinatown, trolling sex magic and chaos in its wake.Senior Inspector Roku MacCormick of the Chinatown Arcane Crimes Division faces a pile of challenges far beyond his human-faerie heritage, snarling dragons guarding C-Town's multiple gates, and exploding noodle factories. After a case goes sideways, Roku is saddled with Trent Leonard, a new partner he can't trust, to add to the crime syndicate family he doesn't want and a spell-casting serial killer he desperately needs to find.While Roku would rather stay home with Bob the Cat and whiskey himself to sleep, he puts on his badge and gun every day, determined to serve and protect the city he loves. When Chinatown's dark mystical underworld makes his life hell and the case turns deadly, Trent guards Roku's back and, if Trent can be believed, his heart... even if from what Roku can see, Trent is as dangerous as the monsters and criminals they're sworn to bring down.

Ein Titel der Ein Cole-McGinnis-Krimi SerieDer ehemalige Polizist und Privatdetektiv Cole Kenjiro McGinnis kampft noch damit, uber die Ermordung seines Liebsten hinwegzukommen, als er mit einem scheinbar alltaglichen Fall beauftragt wird. Der Selbstmord des Sohnes eines erfolgreichen koreanischen Geschaftsmannes entpuppt sich als ganz und gar nicht gewohnlich, vor allem, als Cole bei seinen Nachforschungen Jae-Min kennenlernt, den gut aussehenden Cousin des Toten.Jae-Mins Cousin hatte ein schmutziges Geheimnis der Art, mit der Cole sich bestens auskennt und die Jae-Min selbst vor seiner Familie geheim hlt. Die Ermittlungen fhren Cole von geschmackvollen Villen zu zwielichtigen Begegnungen im Dirty Kiss, wo die Reichen und Verschwiegenen ihr Verlangen abseits ihrer konservativen Familien stillen.Sie fhren ihn auerdem in Jae-Mins Arme, was Probleme mit sich bringt. Der Selbstmord sieht mehr und mehr wie ein Mord aus, whrend Jae-Min das nchste Ziel zu sein scheint. Cole hat bereits einen geliebten Menschen auf diese Weise verloren - bei Jae-Min wird er es mit allen Mitteln verhindern.

How do you save a drowning man when that drowning man is you?Jake Moore's world fits too tightly around him. Every penny he makes as a welder goes to care for his dying father, an abusive, controlling man who's the only family Jake has left. Because of a promise to his dead mother, Jake resists his desire for other men, but it leaves him consumed by darkness.It takes all of Dallas Yates's imagination to see the possibilities in the fatigued art deco building on WeHo's outskirts, but what seals the deal is a shy smile from the handsome metal worker across the street. Their friendship deepens while Dallas peels back the hardened layers strangling Jake's soul. It's easy to love the sweet, artistic man hidden behind Jake's shattered exterior, but Dallas knows Jake needs to first learn to love himself.When Jake's world crumbles, he reaches for Dallas, the man he's learned to lean on. It's only a matter of time before he's left to drift in a life he never wanted to lead and while he wants more, Jake's past haunts him, making him doubt he's worth the love Dallas is so desperate to give him.

Half Moon Bay: Book TwoAngel Daniels grew up hard, one step ahead of the law and always looking over his shoulder. A grifter's son, he'd learned every con and trick in the book but ached for a normal life. Once out on his own, Angel returns to Half Moon Bay where he once found... and then lost... love.Now, Angel's life is a frantic mess of schedules and chaos. Between running his bakery and raising his troubled eleven-year-old half brother, Roman, Angel has a hectic but happy life. Then West Harris returns to Half Moon Bay and threatens to break Angel all over again by taking away the only home he and Rome ever had.When they were young, Angel taught West how to love and laugh, but when Angel moved on, West locked his heart up and threw away the key. Older and hardened, West returns to Half Moon Bay and finds himself face-to-face with the man he'd lost. Now West is torn between killing Angel or holding him tight.But rekindling their passionate relationship is jeopardized as someone wants one or both of them dead, and as the terrifying danger mounts, neither man knows if the menace will bring them together or forever tear them apart.

The Kai Gracen Series: Book TwoKai Gracen has no intention of being anyone's pawn. A pity Fate and SoCalGov have a different opinion on the matter.Licensed Stalkers make their living hunting down monsters and dangerous criminals... and their lives are usually brief, brutal, and thankless. Despite being elfin and cursed with a nearly immortal lifespan, Kai didn't expect to be any different. Then Ryder, the High Lord of the Southern Rise Court, arrived in San Diego, and Kai's not-so-mundane life went from mild mayhem to full-throttle chaos.Now an official liaison between the growing Sidhe Court and the human populace, Kai is at Ryder's beck and call for anything a High Lord might need a Stalker to do. Unfortunately for Kai, this means chasing down a flimsy rumor about an ancient lost Court somewhere in the Nevada desert-a court with powerful magics that might save Ryder's-and Kai's-people from becoming a bloody memory in their Merged world's violent history.The race for the elfin people's salvation opens unwelcome windows into Kai's murky past, and it could also slam the door on any future he might have with his own kind and Ryder.

Meurtre et complications, tome 1Seuls les cadavres ne parlent pas.Cambrioleur rform, Rook Stevens a jadis vol d'innombrables objets de valeur inestimable, mais jamais il n'avait encore t accus de meurtre - jusqu' aujourd'hui. Dj surpris de dcouvrir une de ses anciennes complices Potter's Field, sa boutique ddie aux collectionneurs et fans du cinma, Rook l'est encore plus de constater qu'elle a t assassine.L'inspecteur Dante Montoya pensait ne jamais revoir Rook Stevens - surtout aprs une douteuse affaire de falsification de preuve commise par son ancien partenaire pour piger le voleur. Aussi, quand il intercepte un suspect couvert de sang fuyant la scne d'un crime, est-il choqu de reconnatre celui qu'il avait tant voulu mettre en prison quelques annes plus tt. Et comme autrefois, Rook Stevens lui enflamme le sang.Rook, malgr son attirance inexplicable pour l'inspecteur cubano-mexicain qui vient de l'arrter, est dtermin se disculper. Malheureusement, les cadavres ne cessent de s'accumuler autour de lui. Quand sa vie est menace, Rook est oblig d'accepter l'aide d'un flic qu'il n'aurait jamais cru capable de croire son innocence : Dante, le seul homme qu'il ait dans la peau.

The Kai Gracen Series: Book OneEver since being part of the pot in a high-stakes poker game, elfin outcast Kai Gracen figures he used up his good karma when Dempsey, a human Stalker, won the hand and took him in. Following the violent merge of Earth and Underhill, the human and elfin races are left with a messy, monster-ridden world, and Stalkers are the only cavalry willing to ride to someone's rescue when something shadowy appears.It's a hard life but one Kai likes-filled with bounty, a few friends, and most importantly, no other elfin around to remind him of his past. And killing monsters is easy. Especially since he's one himself.But when a sidhe lord named Ryder arrives in San Diego, Kai is conscripted to do a job for Ryder's fledgling Dawn Court. It's supposed to be a simple run up the coast during dragon-mating season to retrieve a pregnant human woman seeking sanctuary. Easy, quick, and best of all, profitable. But Kai ends up in the middle of a deadly bloodline feud he has no hope of escaping.No one ever got rich being a Stalker. But then few of them got old either and it doesn't look like Kai will be the exception.