Review: Above average and enjoyable.  Mostly mystery solving, some good action scenes and a few intense M/M sex scenes.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2010
FAIR GAME by Josh Lanyon.STORY BRIEF:Elliot and Tucker were FBI agents.  They had an intense sexual relationship for three months until Elliot was shot in the knee.  At that time they broke up.  (The reader doesn't know why until later in the book.)  It is now 17 months after their break-up.  Elliot has an artificial knee which restricts his movements, requires weekly therapy, and is painful at times.  Elliot didn't want a desk job with the FBI so he now teaches history at a university.  He misses Tucker.A student Terry is missing.  His parents are friends of Elliot's father.  They feel the police and FBI aren't doing enough and ask Elliot to look into the disappearance.  Tucker is the FBI agent in charge of the case.  Elliot and Tucker interact regarding the case.  A second student Gordie goes missing.  The university president asks Elliot to look into that as well.  Elliot suspects a serial killer.REVIEWER'S OPINION:This is mostly a mystery.  There is suspense because the killer knows Elliot is investigating and wants him dead.  There is not much relationship development between Elliot and Tucker.  Their interaction on the case is the catalyst for them to start talking to each other.  As they forgive each other, there are a couple of intense sex scenes.  While I was reading it, I was little impatient with the mystery solving - wanting more time with the relationship.  But on hindsight, the mystery solving was ok.  I really liked the action scenes.  My favorite scenes were a sniper shooting at someone and an attack in a parking lot.I would have liked seeing Tucker's feelings and point of view about their past and at other times.  The story is told in third person from Elliot's perspective.Sex scenes include anal.  There are two short scenes where Elliot is remembering or dreaming.  There is a hot kissing scene.  And then there are two longer scenes at about  of the way through which are passionate and tender.POSSIBLE SPOILERS - UNANSWERED QUESTIONS  (I DON'T give away whodunit):There are some things I would have liked explained.  Where did the killer put the dead bodies?  Why did he put one of them in the place it was found and not with the others?  Did he kill men and women or just men?  What did he do with the bodies during the time he had them - before he disposed of them?  Were they dead, alive, drugged?  I wanted to know how the killer first attacked and subdued his victims.  Did he use a knife, gun, rope?  The only one I know about had him wrestling the victim with a hypodermic needle in his hand.DATA:Kindle count story length: 4052.  Swearing language: moderate, including religious swear words.  Sexual language: moderate.  Number of sex scenes: 5.  Setting: current day Tacoma and Puget Sound area in Washington State.  Copyright: 2010.  Genre: gay male mystery suspense romance.