In Other Words....Murder by Josh Lanyon
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lightreadsIn other Words….Murder
3/5. Continuation of the M/M series about the cranky ungracefully aging mystery writer who keeps accidentally solving crimes. I read this in one shot on Sunday, when I otherwise would have been doing nothing but wandering around the apartment staring blankly into space and failing to process. These books continue to be slight – calling some of Lanyon's books "novels" is stretching the point, frankly. But this series as a whole is doing nice stuff with someone slowly recovering from a long, bad relationship with a short, bad end. This book does that trick of showing us a lot of how shitty it was without dwelling on any of the details. And also there is an evil clown. So, this book, too, served its purpose of keeping my brain running on rails for a few hours on a bad, bad day.
3/5. Continuation of the M/M series about the cranky ungracefully aging mystery writer who keeps accidentally solving crimes. I read this in one shot on Sunday, when I otherwise would have been doing nothing but wandering around the apartment staring blankly into space and failing to process. These books continue to be slight – calling some of Lanyon's books "novels" is stretching the point, frankly. But this series as a whole is doing nice stuff with someone slowly recovering from a long, bad relationship with a short, bad end. This book does that trick of showing us a lot of how shitty it was without dwelling on any of the details. And also there is an evil clown. So, this book, too, served its purpose of keeping my brain running on rails for a few hours on a bad, bad day.