Fatal Shadows: The Collector's Edition (The Adrien English Mysteries)

All Adrien All the Time
When a bookstore owner is accused of murdering his ex-lover, proving his innocence might lead a hard-nosed detective to a fatal attraction…

Thirty-two-year-old gay bookseller Adrien English searches for love between the pages. As a sensitive intellectual with a heart condition, his dating life is gathering dust on the shelves. But when police name him the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his friend and employee, Adrien doesn’t expect his best hope for romance to be assigned to the case…

Detective Jake Riordan is hungry to climb the ranks. All he has to do for a promotion is nail the handsome bookstore owner for an obvious crime of passion. If only he could stop fantasizing about the suspect instead of the “normal” wife and family his career demands…

As Riordan’s investigation heats up and the suspect insists on his innocence, the detective doubts both Adrien’s guilt and his ability to resist the man’s understated charms. Can they turn the crime into passion, or will a killer on the loose write The End?
The special 20th Anniversary edition contains Foreword by Dal Maclean, Afterword by Nicole Kimberling, illustrations, character interviews, holiday codas—including a new and exclusive short story-length coda written for Christmas 2021—as well as other curiosities. All in all, over 400 pages of Adrien English and Jake Riordan!