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

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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.

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.

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!

This book, oh, God, this book...

This book is the beginning of a love with the ending being a promise. It has taken me so long to find a gay romance that I'd almost given up...Then I found Krandall Kraus's beautiful novel.

This novel shines so brightly that I didn't need my nightlight at night, it glowed from its place on my bedside table. I cried when it started, and I cried when it ended. Kraus reminds me of Peter McGehee. McGehee didn't write mysteries but absolutely beautiful novels.

But Kraus...he pulled something off that isn't easily...pulled off...This is to write a gay mystery without the content being trashy. This book is so far away from "trashy" that you can't even see it from here. Nickey's and Nigel's love transcends boundries of sexuality...If you've ever been in love, you will know that special language with which this book is talking to your heart.

This is a lovely blend of mystery and romance. Nigel and Nicky
are two of the most colourful and interesting characters I have
encountered in gay mysteries. Witty, humourous, sexy and loving they are a joy to read. The mystery itself is fast paced and exciting enough to keep the reader guessing. Coupled with the intense relationship development between Nigel and Nicky this romantic mystery is definitely a class by itself. Hope that Mr Kraus will deliver another story on these two adoring characters.

Ok..lately I haven't found a great Gay mystery. So, I read some of the reviews and picked Love's Last Chance and boy I was I in for a treat. I just ordered some more of his books. Great story, well written...wow..