"Breathless" is featured in this weekend's Gay-Mystery-Thriller authors group on Facebook!

My first Corey Shaw novel Breathless is highlighted in the Facebook group "Gay-Mystery-Thriller Author's" group this weekend!  It's a closed group but you can see the featured post here:


http://www.jonmichaelsen.net/?p=3743

"Legacy of Hephaestus" by Alex Morgan re-released on Amazon!

My fourth Corey Shaw novel Legacy of Hephaestus is now live on Amazon!

Click here to go to Amazon!

Blurb:

Corey Shaw is trying to salvage what's left of his Baltic cruise vacation by sleeping his way across the Netherlands and Norway.  About the time he arrives in Amsterdam, the largest yellow diamond ever discovered, the Lava Diamond, is stolen from a diamond factory.

Corey is glad to leave the case in the hands of Dutch authorities, but when he gets to Oslo, a paramour is murdered.  For once in his lifetime, he is glad to see the end of a vacation. But things get worse when he returns to Boston.  The diamond shows up in an unlikely place and a volcanology professor on sabbatical in Norway has disappeared.

Thinking the stolen diamond case closed, Corey heads back across the Atlantic to help Norwegian police to search for the professor.  Soon he uncovers more than a missing persons’ case.  It is a plot to turn the diamond world on its head. 

"Invisible Curtain" by Alex Morgan re-released on Amazon!

My third Corey Shaw novel, Invisible Curtain, has been re-released and is available on Amazon!

Here is the link to Amazon.

Blurb:
Paranormal sleuth Corey Shaw is enjoying vacation with his family in the Baltic Sea when terrorists bomb restaurants hosting World Cup parties in London and Copenhagen. On each occasion the explosion coincides with the cruise ship leaving port. Although the United States isn’t attacked directly, Corey and his colleagues are unavoidably drawn into the investigation with or without the blessing of international intelligence agencies. When a third bomb goes off in St. Petersburg, Russia, Corey is convinced the answer lies aboard his ship. 

He must use all his psionic abilities to protect his family, and his friends, and keep the world safe from this worrying upsurge in international terrorism

"Murder At The Green Lantern" by Alex Morgan re-released on Amazon!

My second Corey Shaw novel Murder at the Green Lantern is now available on Amazon!

Here is the link:

Blurb:

After a fetish party at a gay bar in Washington, DC, a young man is murdered and left nailed to a St. Andrew’s Cross.  Paranormal gay sleuth Corey Shaw thinks someone has passed a divine judgment on him, and may be a signal to other gays in the city.  The mystery leads him on a trail from Boston to the halls of the U.S. Capitol Building in DC.   

"Breathless" by Alex Morgan re-released on Amazon!

I decided to go the self-publishing route now, so I'm re-releasing my Corey Shaw novels onto Amazon!  You can find it at this link.

Blurb:

Paranormal detective Corey Shaw, with abilities such as telepathy and clairvoyance, is summoned to Provincetown during the annual leather Mates weekend, when the naked body of a young man is found. He had been tied up and beaten before being strangled. The police say murder but Corey suspects a BDSM scene got out of control. Searching the dungeons, he becomes immersed in the local scene and discovers a never-before-seen side of himself. In a sea of muscular leather masters and slaves, he realizes hidden urges in an environment where every fantasy can be fulfilled. He must set aside his sadomasochism desires and use his powers to locate the murderer before he kills again. Can Corey find him before becoming a victim to the ultimate BDSM fantasy of execution?

New Trailer for "Breathless"!

I made a trailer for my first Corey Shaw novel, "Breathless"!  Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6StG45EuKA

Available at https://www.amazon.com/Breathless-Corey-Shaw-Mystery-Book-ebook/dp/B00KBIWRIE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465903462&sr=1-1&keywords=breathless+by+alex+morgan

Book Review - "An Actor's Guide to Murder" by Rick Copp

I've enjoyed watching "Where the Bears Are", a comedy series about 3 roommates solving murders in Los Angeles' bear community.  I wanted to learn more about the show and then found out the actor Rick Copp, who plays Reggie, is also a writer.  And I had one of his books in my library.

"An Actor's Guide to Murder" reads like an episode of "Bears", a mystery laced with a mix of action and comedy.  Jarrod Jarvis, a former child star, is trying to make a come-back, auditioning for bit parts and walk-ons.  At one such audition, he bumps into an old flame, another former child star, Willard.  When they were in their teens, their love affair went public and snuffed out their successful careers.

They reconnect and Jarrod decides to throw Willard a birthday party but his former lover dies just before the celebration.  Everyone, even Jarrod's current boyfriend Charles, a detective for LAPD, says it was an accident.  Willard got drunk, tripped and feel into his pool, and drowned.

Jarrod believes differently.  He is convinced Willard's death was no accident.  Despite popular opinion and overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Jarrod presses on.  Soon he is attacked and threatened, and only then, people begin to take notice.

Copp peppers his story with sarcasm, wit and plenty of pop culture references to keep the reader entertained and interested.  I devoured it, reading most of it in one afternoon.  I could see it easily becoming an episode of "Where the Bears Are", campy, funny and sexy men.  Despite the comedy, it is a good cozy mystery.  I'd definitely read more of his works.