Loves Last Chance: A Nigel and Nicky Mystery (Nigel and Nicky Mysteries) [Paperback]

Krandall Kraus (Author), Kandel Kraus (Author), Krandall Kraus (Author)

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Publication Date: November 1, 2000 | Series: Nigel and Nicky Mysteries

Fate has strange and wonderful plans for wisecracking Nigel Adams and cynical, aristocratic Nicky Borja, who are accidentally thrown together in a Tuscany villa, where they have both fled to escape from life and its heartbreaks. But just as a fiery romance is kindled from oil and water, Nicky and Nigel discover that a friend they recently met, the publishing heiress Evelyn VanDeventer Iversen, has been drowned in a remote Arizona lake while camping with her new and much younger husband. Suddenly, the newly-in-love and eager-for-adventure pair find themselves in the deserts of Utah and Arizona on the trail of the truth in this delightfully poignant and funny blend of mystery and romance.

Krandall Kraus is the author of The President's Son and Bardo and is at work on the second Nigel and Nicky Mystery.

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Krandall Kraus and his partner, Paul Borja, spend most of their time with their Doberman pinscher, Harry, trying to solve the mystery of life, which usually means digging for gophers, chasing birds, and twitching in their sleep. He is also the author of The President's Son and Bardo and is at work on the second Nigel and Nicky Mystery.

Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Alyson Books; 1st edition (November 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555835058
• ISBN-13: 978-1555835057
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,981,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Welcome a new pair of gay sleuths!, February 22, 2001

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This review is from: Loves Last Chance: A Nigel and Nicky Mystery (Nigel and Nicky Mysteries) (Paperback)

Since Love's Last Chance is both a romance and a mystery it takes a while for the plot to get rolling. The story opens with writer, Nigel Adams in his third year of the funk of the millennium. In order to get away from it all, he runs off to a villa in Tuscany, where he depletes the wine cellar while watching it rain every day. Jeez, he's so depressing you find yourself shouting, "Get a life." Actually, it takes the first third of the book before this begins to take place. The exotic Nicky (Nicholas Rosario di Medici Borja from the Spanish branch of the Borgia family by way of Guam) shows up at the villa one night and it is hate at first sight. With the help of Nonna, Nicky's grandmother, a relationship is sparked between them and they return to San Francisco where the mystery begins.

It seems that publishing heiress, Evelyn VanDeventer Iversen, has drowned while on a camping trip with her new, younger and poorer husband, who happens to be a bull-riding cowboy. Suspecting something out of the ordinary Annarita, her daughter and a college classmate of Nicky asks the pair to investigate.

Their investigations take them and their budding romance from the hills of San Francisco to Arizona and Utah. Along the way we meet studdly cowboys, truck-driving females and their co-sleuths, Matthew with his unending supply of adult-sized, kiddie-themed robes and pajamas and Thao, whose boxes of doughnuts will have you raiding the cupboard for midnight snacks.

Love's Last Chance was a very entertaining read, and I look forward to more Nigel and Nicky mysteries. As developed so far, the characters are very real and believable. They are fun and interesting and they have the potential for becoming the stars of a must read, gay mystery series.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love's Last Chance -, December 3, 2001

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This review is from: Loves Last Chance: A Nigel and Nicky Mystery (Nigel and Nicky Mysteries) (Paperback)

An excellent blend of romance, mystery with a touch of the mystical.

I loved this book, and read it in one sitting. Nigel and Nicky are two wonderful characters whom you can't help but love. Nonna was also a very entertaining character, and look forward to seeing them all again in another novel.

You can clearly see the differences in these two men, but at the same time, see how well they compliment each other. The mystery of the death of Evelyn VanDeventer Iversen is a wonderful mix with the story of Nigel and Nicky's relatiosnhip.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Romance, Travel, Murder: Unbeatable Combo!, October 2, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Loves Last Chance: A Nigel and Nicky Mystery (Nigel and Nicky Mysteries) (Paperback)

When Nigel, deep in self-doubt and despairing over the death of his partner, goes to Tuscany he little expects to find a stranger in the shower a few days after he arrives. And from there it is a short step into a glittering world of privilege and money in Italy, and then again in the Bay Area. And Nicky, now fresh from the shower, is astonishingly patient while gently helping Nigel get on with life. The murder seems incidental--the growing relationship is the thing set against the crime which means that the heroes must fly around the West to solve the puzzle. Ah well, with that kind of money, who needs an advance purchase ticket? They and their friends are a lively community but it is the Nicky and Nigel that are the centrifugal force that keeps it all balanced beautifully. I hope they will be soon off on another adventure. Who could resist their company and generous friendship? Not me!