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James Quentin

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Born
New Zealand
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Member Since
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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Lilibury Murders 2 is live!

The second Lilbury Murders book is out TODAY March 16 2026.

It's called To Sleep, Perchance to Kill, and thank you Billy Shakespeare, for always having a quote at hand to butcher for a name for something.

It's a long, old slog this self-publishing malarkey and much less fun than the writing itself, which is just me sitting in a room with my cat making up stories.

So, I'd be ever so grateful if you co Read more of this blog post »
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Published on March 16, 2026 11:01
Average rating: 4.31 · 121 ratings · 25 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
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One Last Try by Jemma Croft
"DNF @ 36%

Uhh, I don't think that's how being demisexual works. Owen repeatedly drooling all over Mathias' physique and body while they were still practically strangers contradicts the very meaning of demisexual (aka someone who only experiences sexua" Read more of this review »
To Sleep, Perchance to Kill by James Quentin
"Loved it. It was good to be back in Lilbury. I don't think this take place a great deal of time after the last murder.
Feel so sorry for Arden , always in the middle of things and friends wanting him to help them solve the mystery.
I never guessed the " Read more of this review »
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The Lilbury Murder by James Quentin
"Apparently, this is a first book and it definitely feels like that. It is aggressively overwritten. There is not a single idea that the author had that did not make it onto the page. I think there’s a really fun story in here, but you would need a We" Read more of this review »
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Turn of a Page: Izzy Accepted the Challenge! 14 7 Mar 23, 2026 07:45AM  
Turn of a Page: Back To School For Izzy! 8 6 Mar 27, 2026 08:03AM  
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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