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title: "Murder at Pirate's Cove: Secrets and Scrabble, Book 1"
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# Murder at Pirate's Cove: Secrets and Scrabble, Book 1

**Brand:** josh lanyon
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Cozy Mystery
  

*by M***C on Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2023*

So cozy mysteries are not usually my thing, but I am sorry that I waited so long to read this story. I’ve always loved Josh Lanyon‘s writing, and this is no exception. Good mystery good dialogue good start to a new series.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    I don't always want cozy mysteries, but when I do, Lanyon is the one...
  

*by U***Z on Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2020*

“It isn’t very pretty what a town without pity can do.” (Gene Pitney)The first of what is going to be a charming series of cozy mysteries featuring failed-actor-now-bookshop-owner Ellery Page, “Murder at Pirate’s Cove” sets the scene for both bloodshed and romance. Aside from Lanyon’s expected good writing, I was instantly reminded of her iconic “Adrien English” series, also featuring a bookshop owner, which was darker and harder-hitting than this series is meant to be, I’m sure. On the other hand, the potential romance with the local police chief, Jack Carson, is going to be a slow burn, and therein lies one of Lanyon’s greatest appeals for me. Ellery Page is gay, a failed (possibly untalented) actor who, at the moment of betrayal by someone he loved, finds himself the heir to a crumbling mansion and an unprofitable bookstore that specializes in mysteries. And that’s it. This is about a young man trying to reorganize his life into something meaningful and stumbling into a bloody mess—literally—that turns his already precarious world upside down.Before I even started reading this, I commented to a friend that it sounded like a Jessica Fletcher kind of thing—only to find that this is a recurrent joke in the book itself. Buck Island, off the coast of Rhode Island, seems a potential avatar of the actual Block Island; but it is tricked out in cozy small-town set pieces with cozy small-town characters. The whole thing as presented is intentionally trite, making the ugly violence more shocking. The cheesy 1961 song, “Town Without Pity,” (which was nominated for an Oscar!) kept running through my mind, because that’s where Lanyon’s cozy set up becomes sharp-edged—poor battered Ellery Page, barely keeping his head above water, treated like an outcast and a suspect by the people who are supposed to be his neighbors.My daughter, in her twenties, has a way of looking at me and saying “that seems to be a you problem.” And she’s quite right. One of my “you” problems is my inability to overlook minor details that damage my suspension of disbelief when reading fiction. Captain’s Seat, the crumbling granite mansion that Ellery inherits from his great-great-great-aunt Eudora Page, is described vividly, and very clearly, as a huge, ornate Victorian house. However, in the book, it is always referred to as an 18th-century sea captain’s house. These are mutually exclusive things, especially for an architectural historian who knows Rhode Island buildings. Secondly, the comical repetition of “great-great-great” before Ellery’s hitherto unknown deceased relative is genealogically impossible. Any relative of mine with that title would have been born in the 1820s. That’s the way generations work. Two greats, maybe, but three won’t cut it unless Eudora was 120.My irritating quibbles aside, I enjoyed this book, because it was what I needed to read right now, and because Josh Lanyon knows how to write. Cozy mysteries are not an all-the-time thing for me, but now and then I really need a dose of Jessica Fletcher’s younger gay avatar. The next book in the series is on my Kindle and I’ll start it today.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Lovely and very Lanyon
  

*by C***1 on Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2020*

Once again (and just about always) Lanyon delivers a winner. I am sure there are many readers who follow Lanyon because of the M/M romance that occurs in all her books, probably because there is a scarcity of quality writing in this particular genre, and that may be why I decided to sample her work to begin with, more out of curiosity than any compulsive interest. But that is not why I continue to read her. Simply put, her protagonists are unfailingly unique, colorful, intelligent, witty, and easy to like, combining heroic character with all-too-human flaws, which only serve to make them more relatable. That is definitely the case here, when we meet Ellery Page, newly arrived in a quaint seaside village, as he seeks to leave his New York life behind him and take on the challenge of restoring a failing book shop left to him by a distant relative he never knew. The village is lovely, but not nearly as innocuous as it seems when the villain of the piece takes action to deprive him of everything that he treasures and leave him accused of the murder of a local business mogul, which initiates his contact with the local police chief - and introduces the romantic elements of the story. And here is the main reason I love her work so much. The budding romance between the two men is simply a natural development of the plot; it is not the sole purpose of the story, and it is not an excuse to explore the physical nature of the relationship. It happens in the book as it happens in life, demonstrating that courage, character, and conscience are not defined by who or how a person happens to love. Well played, as usual, and fully deserving four very brilliant stars.

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