Neil S Plakcy

Depuis qu'il a vu le beau Liam McCullough se doucher nu derrière un bar tunisien, Aidan Greene, prof d'anglais langue étrangère, ne rêve que d'une chose, faire l'amour au garde du corps sexy. Si un messager mort et des gros durs en mission ne s'étaient pas mis en travers de leur chemin.

Mais alors que Liam et Aidan se rendent auprès d'une tribu touareg dans une oasis reculée, ils se laissent enfin aller à toute la passion que Liam,

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Jeff Berman is in freefall. He's been denied tenure, then lost his follow-up job as a presenter on the History Channel. But rock bottom comes fast and painful when he learns that the love of his life, the charismatic, passionate, and devastatingly self-destructive Pascal Montrouge, has died. At Pascal's funeral, Jeff meets his lover's parents, who explain that the man Jeff knew was a completely invented identity. As a journalist, Pascal played...

For many writers of genre fiction, structuring a book is a real pain point. The Murder Beats solves that problem. Award-winning author Neil Plakcy has written over fifty novels in mystery and romance, taught college level writing for over twenty years, and lectured at conferences and to writers' groups about the mechanics of writing. In The Murder Beats, he demystifies many different ways of structuring a book of genre fiction, focusing on element...

A new case challenges a homicide detectives feelings of family A mother and her neurodiverse teen-aged son are missing in one of the parks surrounding Honolulu, and homicide detective Kimo Kanapa'aka must use his knowledge of the landscape, and of human nature, to tackle this case, with more twists and turns than a mountain trail. Pressure mounts from civic and tourism leaders, as well as the news media. Kimo must confront old adversaries as he negotiates...

GayLife.com is a sexy comedy of manners the novel Jane Austen might have written-if she were a gay man living in Miami Beach at the turn of the millennium.Brian Cohen is handsome, funny and smart, but he's never been able to get all those good characteristics together enough to score a great job or a great boyfriend. He's in his early thirties, living in the awesome gay candy store called South Beach, but he's a man without a plan.Then his best friend...

Join Steve Levitan and Lili Weinstock as they navigate the treacherous waters of wedding planning in "In Dog's Image," a captivating traditional mystery novel. Amidst disagreements over guest lists, menu selections, and even wedding attire, their impending nuptials face more than just typical hurdles. The real challenge emerges with the mysterious demise of a prominent gallery owner. Lili finds herself entangled in a web of intrigue when she is asked...

Golden Blurb 7-9#7 Honest to DogThe body in the canal belongs to Steve's old friend. Can Steve and Rochester uncover the clues to what happened to him?When his college friend Doug moves to Stewart's Crossing after an ugly divorce, reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan sees a way to pay forward the help he received under similar circumstances. But when Doug dies under mysterious circumstances, Steve and his crime-solving golden retriever Rochester...

The Gentleman and the Spy is an 83,000 word Victorian-era lord and valet romance with a country house party and a touch of espionage and international intrigue. After his father's death Lord Magnus Dawson has more important things to think about than falling in love-like how to earn a living when all he knows is the idleness he was raised with, and the military training he received before selling his commission. For Toby Marsh, the impetus is as great,...

When semi-reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan learns that a girl who was kind to him in high school is accused of three murders, he and his clue-sniffing golden retriever Rochester are on the case. Could sweet, ambitious Peggy Doyle be guilty of killing three husbands? Or is someone out to make it look that way?As teens, Steve admired Peggy because of the way she fought back from a difficult childhood to travel to France and aspire to a college...

Armed with a master's degree in accounting, Angus Green faces a future filled with tax forms and spreadsheets, but his dead father's legacy to him is a desire to get out and explore the world. When The Next One Will Kill You opens, he's just completed his training to become an FBI agent and been assigned to the Miami field office, where the range of cases is wild and the criminals even wilder.Handsome, red-haired and sexy, twenty-something Angus is...