The Love Triangle Gone Wrong

by Rob Rosen

Gus is a theater security guard with dreams of becoming a cop. Steel is a local actor who one day wants to see his name up in lights. When a scene during a play turns murderous, the two team up, in more ways than one, to free the innocent and catch the guilty. In this hilarious romantic whodunit, you’ll never guess what, or who, is going to come next!

35 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 16, 2015

About the author

Multi-award-winning and best-selling author/editor/anthologist Rob Rosen is the author of Sparkle: The Queerest Book You'll Ever Love, Divas Las Vegas, Hot Lava, Southern Fried, Queerwolf, Vamp, Queens of the Apocalypse, Creature Comfort, Fate, Midlife Crisis, Fierce, And God Belched, Mary, Queen of Scotch, Ted of the d'Urbervilles, Sort of Dead, Genie in a Vodka Bottle, Bobby Ray Breaks the Universe, and D.B. and Me. His short stories have appeared in more than 200 anthologies. You can read some of his best ones in Short Spurts, Short Spurts 2, and Short Spurts 3. He is also the editor of Lust in Time: Erotic Romance Through the Ages, Men of the Manor, Best Gay Erotica 2015 and Best Gay Erotica of the Year, Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Reviews

[Serena Yates · Rating 4 out of 5]

What begins as a second-rate romantic play in a small town turns into a real murder right there on the stage in full sight of everyone, only to morph into a whodunit of epic and hilarious proportions. The security guard, a man called Gus who wanted to be a cop but was turned down by the local force, and Steel, one of the actors, both doubt that the woman arrested by the police is guilty. After some hanky-panky to slate their immediate lust for each other, they begin their own investigation. The story that follows is laced with humor, Rob Rosen-style, and made me laugh more than once.

Gus and Steel come up with one hypothesis after anther as to who might be the real murderer. In between bouts of hot man-on-man action and finding all types of motives for every person involved in the play, and some they hadn’t thought of earlier, they slowly begin to establish what might have really happened. They use the funeral of all moments, to try to flush out the real murderer. Needless to say, there are a few surprises and a twist or two before the case is solved.

If you like murder mysteries with a humorous touch, if two strangers falling in immediate lust are your thing, and if you’re looking for a read that is as cleverly constructed as it is funny, then you will probably like this short story.


NOTE: This book was provided by Torquere Press for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews.

[C.E. Case · Rating 5 out of 5]

First and foremost, this short story by Rob Rosen is hilarious. I fell in love from the first paragraph and stayed in love throughout. The cover art is equally hilarious and appropriate.

Gus is a security guard, Steel is the star of a play, there’s a murder on stage. Rosen is breaking no new ground with this set up, but that’s to our benefit. No having to lose our focus on details when our minds should be on sex.

I’m a theater junkie, so I may be biased. Here we have a bare stage, stock characters, and did I mention it’s funny? And sexy. Gus and Steel, spoiler, solve a murder while having sex in a variety of places. It even gets slightly kinky.

Don’t be put off by its 31 pages. It’s a fully-fleshed (heh) romp, a story from beginning to end, and a delight. In this case, we really can tell a book by its cover.

Five Stars

- C. E. Case

I was provided this book in exchange for an honest review. I was not compensated, coerced, or flattered into an opinion.

[Suze · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lighthearted yomp through a community theatre production where the love triangle on stage is replicated in real life and a prop switch causes murder.
Enter rent a cop, and wannabe cop, Gus who teams up with actor Steel to investigate - both the murder and each other! How they worked anything out with the amount of sex they had in such a short period of time is a mystery in itself!