Shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award
For Ira Adler, nimble-fingered lover of crime lord Cain Goddard, it should have been an easy job: steal the statue and destroy the criminal evidence within. But everyone’s after that statue, including Ira’s bitter ex. As Ira chases the statue through the mean East London streets where he grew up, he discovers secrets about both himself and Goddard that makes him question everything he thought he knew. In the end, Ira must choose between his hard-won life of luxury and standing against a grievous wrong.
Former criminal Ira Adler has built a respectable, if dull, life for himself as a confidential secretary. He even sits on the board of a youth shelter. When the shelter’s landlord threatens to sell the building out from under them, Ira turns to his ex-lover, crime lord Cain Goddard, for a loan. But the loan comes with strings, and before he knows it, Ira is tangled up in them and tumbling back into the life of crime he worked so hard to escape.
Rainbow Award, Best Gay Historical Runner-Up, Best Gay Novel
For once, Ira Adler has it easy. He has money in his pocket, a comfortable arrangement with an undemanding young man, and no one’s punched, chased, or shot at him in years. Suddenly, an explosion turns everything upside down. Eager to leave London, Ira accompanies his friends to America and soon finds himself embroiled in a far-reaching criminal plot. Just when he’s ready to flee back to Britain, Ira gets a fistful of second chances. But London is calling. Will Ira answer? Or will he embrace a new life abroad?
Marshal Calvin Sutter is looking forward to treating his best guy, Ira Adler, to a posh birthday supper. But New York City Police Commissioner Edgar DuBois has other plans for Sutter’s evening. He wants Sutter to investigate the suspicious death of a fortune teller on the upper east side. The death is more than suspicious, though, and it’s not the first one—a fact that DuBois conveniently neglected to mention.
Blackmail, unnaturally large sandy footprints, and a very determined black cat come together around a most mysterious question: who is murdering these seemingly random victims, and why are they killing them with sand?
Jess Faraday 