Monday Mentions: May 1, 2017
Welcome to another Monday Mentions! How about a couple of suspense reads to get you going this week? First up is Jodi Payne's Linchpin releasing tomorrow, May 2nd, with Pride Publishing. At thirty-nine Randall Quinn is a cleaner for the mob who finds himself in a mid-life crisis, contemplating his options. Expecting easy money when he arrives for a clean up what he discovers in a motel room is anything but simple, and ends up makes his life more and more complicated.
Rounding out our recommendations is Robert Winter's new novel with Dreamspinner Press, Every Breath You Take. Releasing May 5th this story finds Zachary Hall finally embarking on his chance to live as a gay man. He thinks he's met the perfect man in Thomas Scarborough, but despite their instant connection, he can only offer Zachary friendship. He soon finds Thomas has demons that result in a depraved killer turning his attentions on Zachary. In the end can Thomas face his demons to save the man he has true feelings for?
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Make it a great week!
About Linchpin
He’s sent in to clean up and is left with one very hot mess.
Randall Quinn has been a cleaner for the mob for over ten years, but a particularly violent scene sets him to drinking alone and contemplating his options. At thirty-nine, it’s possible this is just a mid-life crisis so he tries buying himself a flashy car to satisfy the itch, and agrees to take another job to test his conviction. He’s expecting easy money when he arrives at a seedy motel to clean up after what the Boss told him was supposed to have been a simple execution. But what he discovers in that motel room is anything but simple, and from that moment on, every decision he makes for himself makes his life more and more complicated.
About Every Breath You Take
When Zachary Hall leaves Utah for a job in Washington, it’s finally his chance to live as a gay man and maybe find someone special. In a bar he meets Thomas Scarborough, a man who seems perfect in and out of the bedroom. But Thomas never dates. He never even sleeps with the same man twice. Despite their instant connection, he can offer Zachary only his friendship, and Zachary is looking for more.
Thomas is tempted to break his own rules, but years before, he became the victim of a stalker who nearly destroyed his life. Even though his stalker died, Thomas obsessively keeps others at a distance. Despite his fascination with Zachary, he is unable to lower his barriers. Frustrated, Zachary accepts he will never have what he wants with Thomas and soon finds it with another man.
But young gay men in Washington, DC, are being murdered, and the victims all have a connection to Thomas. Once again someone is watching Thomas’s every move. Can it be a coincidence? When the depraved killer turns his attention toward Zachary, Thomas must face the demons of his past—or lose his chance to open his heart to Zachary forever.
