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The Magician Murders and The Monuments Men Murders
3/5. Further books about an art crimes agent and a profiler carrying on a long-distance relationship with occasional professional intersections. These continue to be entertaining, if slight (and I mean that literally, one of these should really be classified as a novella). This series is a pleasant reminder that Lanyon writes about adults, as opposed to a lot of romance authors. And I don't mean adults in years, I mean people who live in the world and have adult problems. Here, it's someone under tremendous stress reacting in unhealthy but completely understandable ways, and that stress permeates every part of his life and bends the whole arc of his choices and behavior in ways that his first person narration recounts, but doesn't see. That's a level of observational complexity you can't count on in this genre.
3/5. Further books about an art crimes agent and a profiler carrying on a long-distance relationship with occasional professional intersections. These continue to be entertaining, if slight (and I mean that literally, one of these should really be classified as a novella). This series is a pleasant reminder that Lanyon writes about adults, as opposed to a lot of romance authors. And I don't mean adults in years, I mean people who live in the world and have adult problems. Here, it's someone under tremendous stress reacting in unhealthy but completely understandable ways, and that stress permeates every part of his life and bends the whole arc of his choices and behavior in ways that his first person narration recounts, but doesn't see. That's a level of observational complexity you can't count on in this genre.