Lambda-Award winning author of the Boystown Mysteries, Marshall Thornton transports readers to early 20th-century Chicago, an era of developing queer subculture, a growing temperance movement and a legendary detective agency. 

It’s 1913. Lewis Wait lives with his mother and hides behind scholarly texts, until his conservative middle-class life is thrust aside due to financial woes. Without his consent, Lewis’ widowed mother arranges an interview for him with his father’s last employer: the famous and unscrupulous Pinkerton Detective Agency. But his mother doesn’t stop there, she’s determined to find her son a wife among her fellow temperance ladies. 

Intending to fail so he can return to his studies, Lewis instead discovers a natural talent for deduction. Will he embrace a life as a Pinkerton agent? Amid this, his mother’s latest romantic possibility has a few surprises of her own, offering a kind of life he has not considered, as he solves cases that begin to endanger his very life.

In the fourth book of the Wyandot County Mysteries, Henry Milch has his hands full. Literally. His mother has mysteriously run off, leaving his baby sister in his care. He, with the help of his grandmother and her friends, juggles diapers, feedings, and constructive playtime with his new job as an investigator Hamlet Gilbody. His first assignment, looking into a local woman who is suing a winery suddenly becomes a lot more complicated when the woman’s corpse is dumped in front of the tasting room.

Coming April 28, 2025

“You’re my dad.” That’s the first thing teenager Cass Reilly says to Dom after crashing his housewarming party. The boy is not his son, but could throw Dom’s life into complete disarray by exposing his false identity. Cass agrees to let Dom be if he helps find the killer of the real Dom Reilly. He wants to kill him. That leads Dom and Cass to Reno and then to Detroit where he encounters Cass’s larcenous mother, his mob-connected family and eventually the killer himself. Dom struggles to keep the kid from murdering anyone while trying to protect the life he loves.

A ghostly romantic triangle!When failed actor Cal Parsons travels to rural New York to claim the estate of his famous and estranged ex-partner he discovers something he wasn’t expecting…the ghost of his ex! And, worse, his ex invites Cal to join him for all eternity. Now. As Cal attempts to rid himself of the ghost by any means he begins to fall for the attractive attorney representing the estate. Will Cal be able to begin a new relationship or will he be seduced into the ever after?

Runner Up 2014 Rainbow Awards – Best Romantic Comedy

In the seventh book of the Lambda-Award winning Pinx Video Mystery series, Noah and his friends are on their way to a taping of the Kapowie! reunion show. As a teenager, Marc was a cast member. He’s convinced the producers to hire partner Louis to handle craft services for the all-night shoot. Noah and the new guy at the video store, Eldridge, tag along as helpers. Things go swimmingly, until movie star Finn Henderson takes a drug overdose and they all become trapped in the sound stage—possibly with a killer!

In the third book of the Dom Reilly series, Dom is happy. He and his boyfriend, Ronnie, are working on the co-op they recently bought, he has good friends, and things at The Freedom Agenda are working out well. Having decided to take the Larry Wilkes case, he and attorney Lydia Gonsalez need to find a way to get their client out of prison. Meanwhile, attorney Edwin Karpinski asks Dom to look into a fifty-year-old murder. While juggling the two cases, he also deals with a nagging injury, a surprise visit from old friends, and some unexpected danger.

In the third book of the Wyandot County Mystery series, Henry is very excited: He’s just bought a car—and his old roommate in Los Angeles wants to get an apartment with him.

But then, when he stops in at his doctor’s to pick up an Oxy prescription (he’s titrating down, honest), he accidentally trips and falls on the doctor’s corpse. That leads to his being a person of interest in the murder. Now he has to clear his name before he can even think about returning to LA. 

As he does, he has to contend with a friendly private eye from Grand Rapids, a long line at his local drug dealer’s, an over-crowded book club—and one very unexpected, very large surprise.

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Coming November 28, 2023

A charming and wacky enemies-to-lovers rom-com from the two-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Romance. 

When gay activist Gage Hammond is accused of burning down a patriotic Christmas tree that stands in front of a conservative radio station, the judge sentences him to learn the true meaning of Christmas: Hammond must join buttoned-up prosecutor Cal Cutler and his family for the holiday. There’s just one problem—okay, maybe a lot of problems. But at the top of the list: Cal’s in the closet and it’s not even his family!

If you loved the author’s previous comedies The Ghost Slept Over, Femme or Fathers of the Bride, you’ll want to grab this in time for the holiday! 

Pre-order here!

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