Death Vows (Donald Strachey #9) in Q&A with Josh Lanyon

Feb 03, 2016 Antonella rated it it was amazing

Shelves: donald-strachey-challenge-2015

I loved the mystery and I had to stop reading a couple of times because I was jumping forward to check what was happening. There are many secondary characters, all of them well drawn. Tim is more present than usual and I’m a fan of his ;-). Also the usual humor is there.

Homophobia plays a big role, and it was very satisfying to see people similar to the infamous Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) (view spoiler). Their funeral pickets of AIDS/gay bashing victims ar ...more

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Oct 19, 2008 Josh rated it it was amazing

Solid plotting, brisk pacing, intelligent discourse between well-crafted characters -- and funny as hell. What more could you ask from a gay mystery?

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Jul 21, 2014 Karen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 4-5, mystery-with-gay-protags, series, read-with-audio, 2000s, donald-strachey, reread-2015

Book 9 in the Donald Strachey Mysteries is the only book in the series currently available on Audible and is narrated by the author. Stevenson reads with clear articulation and almost no attempt to "act" or differentiate the characters' voices, with a couple of exceptions. At first I felt that was an unfortunate error in judgement, but the reading grew on me. I prefer well-acted (not over-acted) audiobooks, but appreciated hearing Stevenson's version of his own work. I like to read along while l ...more

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