All She Wrote Holmes Moriarity Book 2 edition by Josh Lanyon Literature Fiction eBooks
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Giving screwball mystery a whole deadly new meaning.
Holmes & Moriarity, Book 2
A murderous fall down icy stairs is nearly the death of Anna Hitchcock, the much-beloved “American Agatha Christie” and Christopher Holmes’s former mentor. Anna’s plea for him to host her annual winter writing retreat touches all Kit’s sore spots—traveling, teaching writing classes, and separation from his new lover, J.X. Moriarity.
For J.X., Kit’s cancellation of yet another romantic weekend is the death knell of a relationship that has been limping along for months. But that’s just as well, right? Kit isn’t ready for anything serious and besides, Kit owes Anna far too much to refuse.
Faster than you can say “Miss Marple wears boxer shorts”, Kit is snooping around Anna’s elegant, snowbound mansion in the Berkshires for clues as to who’s trying to kill her. A tough task with six amateur sleuths underfoot. Six budding writers with a tangled web of dark undercurrents running among them.
Slowly, Kit gets the uneasy feeling that the secret may lie between the pages of someone’s fictional past. Unfortunately, a clever killer is one step ahead. And it may be too late for J.X. to ride to the rescue.
Warning Contains one irascible, forty-year-old mystery writer who desperately needs to get laid, one exasperated thirty-something ex-cop only too happy to oblige, an isolated country manor that needs the thermostat cranked up, various assorted aspiring and perspiring authors, and a merciless killer who may have read one too many mystery novels.
All She Wrote Holmes Moriarity Book 2 edition by Josh Lanyon Literature Fiction eBooks
This book was a reality check for the characters and reader both. Taking the wonder of the fictional world of mystery, Josh Lanyon hands it to you in the character Christopher Holmes, a mystery author who narrates the story as he goes to help former-mentor and long-time friend Anna after an icy fall that broke her leg. Then, after he gives you a wonderful glimpse into the mind of amateur and long-time writers both, Lanyon destroys that image when he slaps you in the face with reality, because the real life mysteries are nothing like the books. Not really.As the story progresses, things become more dire. Where Christopher started out doing a favor for a friend and testing his amateur sleuthing while humoring her about her belief that someone is trying to kill her, a car crash has disastrous results that nearly result in his own death - and the body count keeps going up.
Underlying the tension of the continued murder attempts and not knowing who to trust is Christopher's struggle with his attraction to fellow writer J.X. Moriarity, and his desire to remain distant from the man. As he begins to come to terms with his own insecurities in regards to J.X., things in Anna's manor come to a head, and then unravel.
The second book in the Holmes and Moriarity series is vastly different from the first. Where Somebody Killed His Editor had the cast cut off from any outside help, the characters in All She Wrote are continually affected by the outside world, and interference from those outside the manor continue to change the atmosphere of the story.
The tone of the story contrasts the high tension of drama and suspense with Christopher Holmes' hilarious internal monologue and mental commentary on everything that he encounters as he struggles not to reply with his initial thought, which is usually a sarcastic quip. More than once, I've started laughing in public and the humor creates a balance that makes the book an enjoyable read, even when some of the events within grow dark and all-to-real.
All of the characters are very well crafted, so much so that you forget they're just characters in a book. I've been wanting to pick up Christopher's Miss Butterwith series and have to keep reminding myself that it's not a real thing - much to my disappointment.
Josh Lanyon has sold me on Chrisopher and J.X. and I keep rooting for their relationship.
After an unexpected ending that left the book feeling more like reality than fiction, I'm eagerly looking forward to the next adventure that Holmes and Moriarity will get themselves into. I can't imagine Josh Lanyon will disappoint.
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All She Wrote Holmes Moriarity Book 2 edition by Josh Lanyon Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Josh Lanyon was a sort of accidental discovery, starting with an almost guilty purchase from Samhain Publishing - I just won't tell anyone about the smut I read… But this isn't smut. This is good stuff, a well-done cozy mystery (!) (in that the primary investigator is a mystery writer, these are cozies) with a couple of steamy (but not appallingly explicitly steamy) scenes worked in.
All She Wrote is number two in the "Holmes and Moriarity" series – and that extra "I" in Moriarity (and the way it's handled) makes me happy, makes it less an eye-catching gimmick and more a sort of joke shared with the main characters. Christopher (Kit) Holmes is crotchety, set in his ways, fragile of confidence hiding behind a veneer of apparent arrogance, and loath to trust in good fortune since it usually comes with a sting in its tail, and I love to share his point of view. And J.X. Moriarity, the long-suffering and gorgeous… Yeah.
I enjoyed the writing, so very much. Snarky, funny first-person POV, self-deprecating – the latter masking deep, deep, bleak insecurity – and with just a hint of Lord Peteresque blather. ("He who argues with a fool is a bigger fool. Or drunk. And I was neither. I wasn't drunk, anyway. Worse luck.") It's incisive and clear-sighted, and Lanyon via Kit delivers solid observation with a flair of humor ("This went beyond talent and hard work, this was gifted. This was the kind of acuity you were either born with or you weren't. Like having perfect pitch or Brad Pitt's cheekbones.")
And for fun here's a quote I would l like on my gravestone, if I have one "Did I mention I hate driving in snow? It should go without saying."
More wonderful quotes
I threw a quick look back at J.X. His weary, drawn face reminded me of a young, handsome Don Quixote. I wouldn't have been surprised to spot pieces of broken windmill scattered in the sheets around him.
He scooped up Victoria practically before she hit the ground, well within the five-second rule. If she'd been a potato chip, he could have still eaten her. Not something I particularly wanted to contemplate.
This book was a reality check for the characters and reader both. Taking the wonder of the fictional world of mystery, Josh Lanyon hands it to you in the character Christopher Holmes, a mystery author who narrates the story as he goes to help former-mentor and long-time friend Anna after an icy fall that broke her leg. Then, after he gives you a wonderful glimpse into the mind of amateur and long-time writers both, Lanyon destroys that image when he slaps you in the face with reality, because the real life mysteries are nothing like the books. Not really.
As the story progresses, things become more dire. Where Christopher started out doing a favor for a friend and testing his amateur sleuthing while humoring her about her belief that someone is trying to kill her, a car crash has disastrous results that nearly result in his own death - and the body count keeps going up.
Underlying the tension of the continued murder attempts and not knowing who to trust is Christopher's struggle with his attraction to fellow writer J.X. Moriarity, and his desire to remain distant from the man. As he begins to come to terms with his own insecurities in regards to J.X., things in Anna's manor come to a head, and then unravel.
The second book in the Holmes and Moriarity series is vastly different from the first. Where Somebody Killed His Editor had the cast cut off from any outside help, the characters in All She Wrote are continually affected by the outside world, and interference from those outside the manor continue to change the atmosphere of the story.
The tone of the story contrasts the high tension of drama and suspense with Christopher Holmes' hilarious internal monologue and mental commentary on everything that he encounters as he struggles not to reply with his initial thought, which is usually a sarcastic quip. More than once, I've started laughing in public and the humor creates a balance that makes the book an enjoyable read, even when some of the events within grow dark and all-to-real.
All of the characters are very well crafted, so much so that you forget they're just characters in a book. I've been wanting to pick up Christopher's Miss Butterwith series and have to keep reminding myself that it's not a real thing - much to my disappointment.
Josh Lanyon has sold me on Chrisopher and J.X. and I keep rooting for their relationship.
After an unexpected ending that left the book feeling more like reality than fiction, I'm eagerly looking forward to the next adventure that Holmes and Moriarity will get themselves into. I can't imagine Josh Lanyon will disappoint.
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