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James Quentin

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Born
New Zealand
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September 2021


James Quentin is a UK-based writer of romance, crime, and murder mysteries ...and a bit of satire, maybe some thriller if he's feeling daring. Hell, even some smut if he doesn't feel too consumed by red-cheeked shame that day.

If you like sarcastic main characters who are more real than manic pixie, a bit of self-indulgent inner monologue, and ruggedly handsome love interests that seem to be sans shirt more often than they should be then you've come to the right place.

Oh, and there's usually a murder to solve, too. That's important. Shouldn't forget that.
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Book 3: A Frame By Any Other Name

The plot of Book 3 in The Lilbury Murder Mysteries is ready to be shared with the world.

Download or buy the paperback in winter 2027.

It’s the happiest time of the year in Lilbury. Someone forgot to tell Arden Forrest.

So, o come all ye faithful.

And o come all ye ... murderers?

It wasn’t the Christmas that Arden had been imagining, but things never seemed to run smoothly in Lilbury, even in the b Read more of this blog post »
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"The plot of Book 3 in The Lilbury Murder Mysteries is ready to be shared with the world. Download or buy the paperback in winter 2027. It’s the happiest time of the year in Lilbury. Someone forgot to tell Arden Forrest. So, o come all ye fa..." Read more of this blog post »
To Sleep, Perchance to Kill by James Quentin
"Another great book from James Quentin.

I loved it and highly recommend you read it! Here’s hoping for book number 3 — and may it take slightly less time from concept to print!"
To Sleep, Perchance to Kill by James Quentin
"I am not sure what to think of Arden. Although I did pick it up every night and enjoyed reading it, it was a bit chaotic for me. I like Nigella and Sonia, oh and Kenny of course, the others were nice and than not. But if another book comes out with A" Read more of this review »
To Sleep, Perchance to Kill by James Quentin
"Fantastic

I love it.. I was so hoping that Arden and Simon get together. It was just not ment to be. I feel for Simon Will their be a third? Please. "
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Josh Lanyon
“Why can't you say it?" I hardened my voice. "Because I'm telling you, you never have. I'd have remembered."
He stared at me with disbelief. [...]
"Love you? Of course I love you. Baby, I fucking worship you.”
Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide

Josh Lanyon
“I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide

Josh Lanyon
“And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even spell vanilla. He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.”
Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows

Andrew Sean Greer
“He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you. There are some men who have never been kissed like that. There are some men who discover, after Arthur Less, that they never will be again.”
Andrew Sean Greer, Less

Andrew Sean Greer
“By the end, Arthur Less is in tears, sobbing in his seat, and he thinks he has been sobbing quietly until the lights come up and the woman seated beside him turns and says, “Honey, I don’t know what happened in your life, but I am so so sorry,” and gives him a lilac-scented embrace. Nothing happened to me, he wants to say to her. Nothing happened to me. I’m just a homosexual at a Broadway show.”
Andrew Sean Greer, Less

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