Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Take a look. It’s in a book.

Rough Pages by Lev A.C. Rosen

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  This is the third book in the Evander Mills mystery series. Evander “Andy” Mills is a disgraced former cop turned private investigator who takes on cases for members of the local gay community who can’t go to the police. In this story, Andy investigates the missing proprietors of a gay friendly book shop along with their mailing list, which could ruin the lives of a lot of his friends and loved ones. In addition to the mystery, we see Andy learn to live (somewhat) […]

Your Buddy Misses You

The Bell in the Fog by Lev A.C. Rosen

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  This is the second book in the Evander Mills series so there will be slight spoilers for the first book, Lavender House. The series takes place in the early 1950s San Francisco and is centered mainly in the underground queer subculture. The main character is Evander “Andy” Mills, a disgraced former SFPD officer who was disgraced and fired when he was outed in a raid on a gay club. Andy now works as a private investigator for a community that often can’t go through […]

An Amazing Queer Historical Mystery

The Bell in the Fog by Lev A.C. Rosen

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When I heard there was going to be a sequel to Lavender House, I knew I had to get my hands on it. Plus I love that Rosen writes such complex, messy queer characters who aren’t necessarily good people, but their queerness isn’t why they’re not good people. I really love Andy, his community, and the ways he’s growing since leaving the police force and finding a family that accepts him for who he is, no hiding needed. This story especially shows him making so […]

I don’t understand why people like this one, either!!

Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen

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Thanks to NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. I’m not sure how much help my review is going to be here, because I’m pretty certain I would have given it a different rating (though maybe not that different) had I not done the audio. I really wish I hadn’t jumped on this ARC instead of waiting for the hard copy to come in to my library. This is a queer murder mystery. It is not like Knives […]

Queer Historical Murder Mystery

Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen

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I don’t know how to feel about this book, but also it was utterly compelling and hard to put down. When Andy is caught with his pants down in a gay bar, he feels like his whole life is over – he’s lost his job with the San Francisco police department, lost his housing, and knew the cops who caught him intended to spread his truth so he’d never get a job again. But before he can follow through on ending things, Pearl offers him […]



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