The snick of a lock. The squeak of door hinges. The creak of a floorboard...Nothing is more mysterious than footsteps in the dark. Are those approaching steps that of friend or enemy? Lover or killer?Authors L.B. Gregg, Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon, Dal MacLean, Z.A. Maxfield, Meg Perry, C.S. Poe and S.C. Wynne join forces for Footsteps in the Dark, eight sexy and suspenseful novellas of Male/Male Mystery and Romance.

Academic librarian Jamie Brodie hasn't seen old boyfriend Dan Christensen in years. When Jamie reads Dan's obituary in the paper, he's surprised. When he receives a letter from Dan, written just before his death, Jamie is shocked. Dan's letter suggests that Dan was in danger, lists two article citations from medical journals, and asks Jamie to look into the citations. When Jamie requests the articles, strange things begin to happen. His computer is hacked, his tires are slashed, he thinks ...

It's 1997 in Oceanside, California. Jamie Brodie is turning seventeen. His grandfather hasn't spoken to him for nearly two years, ever since Jamie came out to his family. But Jamie's concerns are mostly centered on his grades, because it will take a near-perfect GPA to get into Berkeley. He's busy with Advanced Placement classes; spending time with his "friend with benefits," Robbie Harrison; and his weekend landscaping job with his best friend, Ali Fortner.

Angeles Investigations is nearly ready for its opening day on Tuesday, August 1. Rob Jones, Kevin Brodie, and Jamilah Daly have worked for weeks to make their vision come to life. Jamie Brodie is on board to resume his career as a professional researcher. All they need to do now is hire an administrative assistant. How hard could that be?Meanwhile, Jon Eckhoff and Susan Portman are tracking a serial killer preying on real estate agents in the Valley. When interior decorator Paul Tha...

When Jamie Brodie agrees to help his ex-sister-in-law Jennifer clean her hoarded apartment, the last thing he expects to find in the hoard is a dead body – and what the dead man was clutching in his hand might be the answer to a thousand-year-old mystery. As Jamie and the police investigate, they uncover a hoard of secrets – but the biggest secret of all belongs to Jamie's boyfriend, Pete. Suddenly Jamie is searching for the answers to three questions: who killed the man in Jennifer's apar...

Jamie Brodie is on deadline. The proposal for his second book is due, and he desperately needs uninterrupted writing time. At the suggestion of patron, friend, and former monk Clinton Kenneally - and over the protests of Pete Ferguson, Jamie's husband - Jamie schedules a week-long writing retreat at a local monastery. But the monastery is not exactly what Jamie expected...which might explain the flicker of disquiet in Clinton's eyes.Meanwhile, Kevin Brodie and Jon Eckhoff are dealin...

Here are 32 short stories that take place in the Jamie Brodie Mysteries universe, most of them never previously published. Spanning from 1974-2017, the stories tell of first dates, first loves, and first meetings of lifelong friends.

Next season, on Two Days to Solve…Miranda Abbott is an influencer superstar. With 32 million followers on TikTok, she has built a business empire on filming her shopping hauls, bath routines, and cooking adventures. But when her body double, Emily Fairborn, is found dead in Miranda's pool, Miranda's empire is thrown into chaos. Was Miranda the target, or was Emily? Was it even a murder, or just a terrible accident? Miranda doesn't have tim...

Two missing persons. Two wildly differing circumstances.Juliette Page, an elderly lady with Alzheimer's, disappeared in the company of her caretaker twelve hours ago. Her daughter, Cynthia Hayes, is frantic and flies from Florida to LA to find her mother. Cynthia's stepdaughter, Melanie Hayes, enlists the aid of her friends at Angeles Investigations to find Juliette.While helping Alison Fortner on a landscaping job, Kristen Beach is digging a hole to plant a tree when she u...

After eighteen years with the Los Angeles Police Department, Kevin Brodie is starting his new career as a social worker with the District Attorney's Bureau of Victim Services. He's meshing with his new partner, Jamilah Daly, and his first client encounter goes well. Life is good...except he can't figure out why Jon Eckhoff's victim looks familiar.Jon's first case as a Homicide Special detective is a French artist named Genevieve Lemieux, strangled and tossed into a ravine near the ...

Bashed with a bust of Bach.Brenda Gillette was the most annoying person that everyone who knew her had ever met. She made up arbitrary and absurd rules and regulations then imposed them upon both her husband and her fellow choir members at St. Stephen's United Methodist Church in Santa Monica. But whose annoyance would have turned to anger? Was it her husband, who spent every day on the golf course to avoid her? Was it the choir director, who battled Brenda...

A sniper? In Bel Air?The peace of wealthy Bel Air is shattered on a Friday night by a rifle shot. Anyone who's outdoors in the neighborhood hears the shot, including Kevin Brodie and Kristen Beach, but no one knows where the shot came from or the identity of the intended target…until the next day, when Jamie Brodie brings his dog, Ammo, to Kevin's house.Ammo, a trained cadaver dog, drags Jamie and Kevin up the street about a half-mile then alerts on a house. The officers wh...