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|  | | A World Ago: A Navy Man's Letters Home, 1954-1956
A personal, intimate story of young man's experiences in the U.S. Navy at the height of the cold war
It's not often one has the chance to become 20 again...
A World Ago chronicles, through one young man's journal and vivid letters to his parents, his life, adventures, and experiences at a magical time. It follows him from being a Naval Aviation Cadet to becoming a “regular” sailor aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga on an eight-month tour of duty in the politically tense Mediterranean Sea.
Learn to fly a plane, to soar, alone, through a valley of clouds, experience a narrow escape from death on a night training flight, and receive the continent of Europe as a 21st | |  | | Aaron's Wait
The second book in Dorien Grey's new Elliott Smith Mystery series
Aaron Stiles is holding up contractor Elliott Smith's plans to renovate the building in which Stiles has an apartment. He refuses to move because he's waiting for someone, and because he is dead and doesn't know it.
Who Aaron is waiting for and why form the foundation of "Aaron's Wait." | |  | | Caesar's Fall
Book #3 of the Elliott Smith Mystery series.
The story of building renovator Elliott Smith's new neighbor--an average guy who suddenly found himself the winner of a $57 million lottery. Elliiott tries to protect him from the predators and con men who immediately begin circling and scheming to get as much of the money as they can. Following a tragic death, Elliott once again joins forces with his non-corporeal friend, John, to determine if the death was an accident or a murder, while at the same time juggling his work restoring a classic old building and his developing relationship with painter Steve Gutierrez.
The video book tr | |  | | Calico (Print Version)
A multi-genre novel (western/romance/adventure/mystery) with a twist--in thatthe protagonist just happens to be both a cowboy and gay.
Calico Ramsay finds himself with the responsibility of escorting two 17 year old orphaned twins from Chicago, Josh and Sarah Howard, safely from the rail line's end in Ft. Collins to their aunt's isolated Colorado ranch. But things have begun to go terribly wrong even before the twins arrive, and it doesn't take Calico long to realize that someone does not the trio to get to their destination.
There is enough action, adventure, and mystery to satisfy both diehard western fans and even those who don't normally care for the genre. The gently developing romance is non-threatening to those willing to acknowledge that every human being has a right to love and be loved.
BRIEF EXCERPT:
The train came chuffing and wheezing into the station like some asthmatic dragon, wreathed in smoke and steam. The great black wheels slowed wearily to a crawl, bell clanging in unnecessary notification of its arrival.
Calico stood on the platform, watching the grimy windows move past.The train ground to a sqeaky, grinding halt and the clouds of steam slowly disappeared like ghosts at dawn.
Calico tried to watch in both directions as the train emptied around him: men in derbies with long, straight cigars, cowboys toting saddles and saddlebags, gloved a | |  | | His Name is John
What happens when an ordinary guy who does not believe in spirits encounters a spirit who believes in him?
"His Name is John" is the first in the new Elliott Smith Mystery series by the author of the 12-book Dick Hardesty Mystery series.
To get a better idea of the book and the series than can be given here, please go to http://www.doriengrey.com to view the video trailer for "His Name is John" and to read the first chapter (on the Books page). | |  | | Short Circuits: a Life in Blogs
The first of two e-book compilations of blogs from prolific mystery writer Dorien Grey
Anyone curious about the people, the experiences and circumstances, the events and mindsets that combine to produce another human being will find the 172 blogs, culled from five years of three-times-a-week blogs in this e-book both informative and entertaining, and may well find echoes of themselves.
To learn more go to http://bit.ly/m8CSO1 | |  | | The 9th Man
Gay private investigator Dick Hardesty sets out to find who or what killed the roving lover of an obnoxiously swishy Kyle Rholfing, and soon finds himself caught up in a string of similar deaths the police have largely ignored.
Tracking down the link that tied all the victims together leads Dick and the reader through a string of interesting characters, a new love, and a shattering resolution. | |  | | The Angel Singers
Death in a gay men's chorus.
Jonathan Quinlan's joining a gay men's chorus created a number of logistical problems for his partner, p.i. Dick Hardesty, when it came to caring for five-year-old Joshua. But they managed until a murder of one of the chorus members set Dick off on the trail of the murderer. | |  | | The Bar Watcher
The third in the Dick Hardesty Mystery series follows Dick as he sets out to find the self-appointed vigilante determined to take out the gay world's trash. Whether you're a new reader or a devoted fan, you'll find plenty of humor, suspense, colorful characters, and action (both horizontal and vertical) to keep you thoroughly entertained.
When Dick is hired by Barry Comstock, former-porn-star owner of the city's hottest bathhouse, to find out who's making threats against the place, the first thing Dick discovers is that Comstock is a first class scumbag. When Dick turns him down and Comstock ends up dead, Dick finds himself drawn into a chain of deaths of similarly dispicable characters and determined to find out who is responsible.
The trail leads Dick to and through a cast of interesting and attractive characters, and to the fringes of a new and more terrifying threat to the gay community.
Once again, th | |  | | The Bottle Ghosts
P.I. Dick Hardesty finds himself trying to discover why the members of a counseling group for gay alcoholics and their non-alcoholic partners are disappearing without a trace--and why it's only the alcoholics who are missing.
| |  | | The Butcher's Son
Set for release in mid-June of 2001, the prequel to "The 9th Man", "The Butcher's Son" tells how Dick Hardesty, caught in a web of burning gay bars, a rabidly homophobic police chief running for governor, and the chief's identical twin sons, Kevin and Patrick, decides to become a private investigator.
Dick is smart, funny, and sharp, and guides the reader smoothly through a series of adventures and characters to an ending few readers will anticipate.
Stuck in a job he hates and in a crumbling relationship, Dick Hardesty is assigned to be his company's P.R. liason with Chief Terrance Rourke, the city's rabidly homophobic police chief, who is rumored to have been responsible for the death of one of his identical twin sons after finding out the young man was gay. The surviving son, Kevin, is married, the father of a young son, and a minister at a homeless shelter who desperately needs a friend and sees one in Dick.
When a series of fires in gay bars suddenly strikes tragically close to home, Dick's innate curiousity drives him to | |  | | The Dirt Peddler
Scandal, blackmail, and murder are not only the subjects of best-selling muckraking author Tony T. Tunderew, they are his own fate. Follow gay p.i. Dick Hardesty in this eighth novel in the Dick Hardesty Mystery series to find out who is responsible...and why.
| |  | | The Dream Ender
In the terrifying early days of the AIDS epidemic, as hundreds die, private investigator Dick Hardest tracks a man deliberately spreading the disease
The 11th book in the popular Dick Hardesty Mystery series (four of which have been finalists for a Lambda Literary Award), "The Dream Ender" presents Dick with challenges he's never had to face. Luckily, he has the support of his partner Jonathan and the circle of friends regular readers of the series have come to know and like, and the heaviness of the theme is lightened with the usual humor, clues, and red herrings for which the series is noted.
Its appeal extends beyond the gay community to all mainstream mystery fans.
Potential readers are encouraged to visit Dorien Grey' | |  | | The Good Cop
P.I. Dick Hardesty finds himself trying to head off open warfare between the police and the gay community over the issue of gays on the police force. Dick has a very personal interest, and things are spinning out of control.
When Dick's old college friend Tom Brady moves into town with his "protective coloration" wife--Tom's gay and Lisa is lesbian-- and announces he's planning to join the police force, Dick knows there's trouble ahead.
And later, when Officer Brady, off duty and with Dick in a gay bar, responds to a vicious attack on several lesbians and gay men by gang members, it sets off a chain of events that sets the police against the community in ways no one could have foreseen. | |  | | The Hired Man
One dead bisexual businessman, one dead male escort, one dead female prostitute, all unknown to one another. What's the link? Gay p.i. Dick Hardesty invites you to join him in finding out.
When gay p.i. Dick Hardesty meets up with an old friend, a former street hustler now working for a very high-class male escort service he opens the door to this latest adventure. When one of his friend's wealthy clients is found dead, Dick is hired by the escort service's owners to try to keep the police at bay. But when one of the service's escorts also turns up dead, things really start to get complicated.
And then there's that dead female prostitute....
Dick and the reader have their hands full sorting through the suspects and the various paths the story takes them dow | |  | | The Paper Mirror
Death in a research library leads Dick on a trail of intrigue, a 50-years-past suicide, and lost love
Words are humanity's most versatile tool, and our civilization could not exist without them. Stung together, they can be stronger than steel or as light as dreams. We use them to teach, and to learn, and to record our past.
Libraries are the repositories of workds, and I think it's because I have always been aware of the power of words that I find libraries so fascinating.
But just like the books they house, libraries sometimes have secrets within, and secrets are not always good things. While we use words to record facts, we also use them, consciously or unconsciously, to rec | |  | | The Peripheral Son
This is book #14 in the popular Dick Hardesty Mystery Series.
Hired to find a missing reclusive writer, Dick finds himself enmeshed in a mystery involving the writer, a closeted contender for the middleweight boxing title, an enigmatic accountant, a scandal-plagued construction union, and a toy truck.
The entire first chapter can be read at http://www.doriengrey.com | |  | | The Popsicle Tree
Dick and Jonathan take on four-year-old boy and the murder of a day-care mom.
No one had ever seriously tried to kill me before--and I had to assume cutting someone's brake linings had to be considered serious. "Nothing gets by you, does it, Hardesty?" a mind voice observed. And if whoever did it knew I would be going down that hill toward a train track, I'd say it was pretty damned serious.
My second reaction was anger, which blossomed into near fury. What if Jonathan and or Joshua had been in the car with me? If anyone has a grudge against me, let them take their best shot...but they'd damned well better keep everyone else out of it, especially people I care ab | |  | | The Role Players
Gay p.i. Dick Hardesty and his partner Jonathan take a "vacation" to New York City and become involved in a show-biz murder and backstage intrigue. Book #8 in the Dick Hardesty Mystery series.
| |  | | The Secret Keeper
Book #13 of the Dick Hardesty Mystery series
When P.I. Dick Hardesty's partner, Jonathan, goes to work helping an elderly multi-millionaire work in his garden, Dick finds himself on a trail of greed, dysfunctional families, a possible murder, a missing will, and a secret Jonathan does not know he is keeping. | |  | | The Serpent's Tongue
How does a private investigator handle a case that hits far too close to home?
When ex-priest Dan Stabile begins receiving death threats, possibly from a child killer whose confession he heard before leaving the priesthood, p.i. Dick Hardesty sets out to find who is making the threats and why.
However, what starts as a simple investigation soon leads to death and imminent danger to his own family...his partner Jonathan and their 6-year-old charge, Joshua.
Read the entire first chapter at www.doriengrey.com and view the video trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ougiGfX09I&feature=em-uploademail |
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