Dirty Kiss
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Cole Kenjiro McGinnis, ex-cop and PI, is trying to get over the shooting death of his lover when a supposedly routine investigation lands in his lap. Investigating the apparent suicide of a prominent Korean businessman’s son proves to be anything but ordinary, especially when it introduces Cole to the dead man’s handsome cousin, Kim Jae-Min. Jae-Min’s cousin had a dirty little secret, the kind that Cole has been familiar with all his life and that Jae-Min is still hiding from his family. The investigation leads Cole from tasteful mansions to seedy lover’s trysts to Dirty Kiss, the place where the rich and discreet go to indulge in desires their traditional-minded families would rather know nothing about. It also leads Cole McGinnis into Jae-Min’s arms, and that could be a problem. Jae-Min’s cousin’s death is looking less and less like a suicide, and Jae-Min is looking more and more like a target. Cole has already lost one lover to violence—he’s not about to lose Jae-Min too.
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6 primary books10 released books#1 in Cole McGinnis
Cole McGinnis is a 10-book series with 6 primary works first released in 2011 with contributions by Rhys Ford.
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WOW!!! I freakin' loved this book. It's happy combination of some of my favorite things: the hard boiled detective novel a la [a:Raymond Chandler 1377 Raymond Chandler https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1206535318p2/1377.jpg] or [a:Dashiell Hammett 16927 Dashiell Hammett https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1287255332p2/16927.jpg]. An un-easy love, M/M and to gild this lily the audio is done by [a:Greg Tremblay 8108759 Greg Tremblay https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1484561919p2/8108759.jpg] who can read me and Ikea assembly booklet and make me happy. Like many of these detective novels the case is almost incidental and it's resolution an afterthought. Instead we are granted entree into the world of our PI, in this case Cole McGinnis an Irish/Japanese former police officer (aren't they all) who after events that I'm sure will be more amply fleshed out in future books, has left the department with a nice bundle of cash & some enemies and has hung his shingle as a PI. Cole feels like a fully fleshed person from the get go with an office manager/surrogate mother in the person of Claudia, an older brother Mike who loves him but needs to work on accepting Cole as an out and proud gay man and the wonderful Scarlett, a trans Pilipino woman who is a performer and mother hen to Jae-Min, Cole's reluctant love interest, because what's a good PI story without a hard to pin down lover. Did I say I loved this book? Yes. I did. I do. I love Cole's voice, his sly and self deprecating humor but also how he can be vulnerable in front of Jae and basically beg him to love him back without appearing weak or clingy.I'll be inhaling the rest of this series ASAP but I can't break my addiction to [a:Greg Tremblay 8108759 Greg Tremblay https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1484561919p2/8108759.jpg] so it'll have to be at the audio pace which is always slower but in this case also delicious.
