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Pat Riley enjoys frequenting the leather club near his flat. Jim Almonds runs a bakery nearby. In the wee hours of the morning when Pat is walking home and Jim is opening the bakery, he and Jim cross paths.
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"What is it?" Jim says. "Flour on my face?"
"No— well, yeah." Pat notices quickly that Jim does have flour on his face, a dusting across his nose, a smear just under one of his eyes, now that he gets a closer look. As he lets his eyes linger, Pat makes note of two moles on Jim's left cheekbone, a couple centimeters apart, another just to the right of his nose. Pat swallows, dryly.
"That wasn't… why I looked," Pat says, feeling suddenly very self conscious about what he's wearing and if he has any come drying in his hair or if he looks like he just got his face fucked kneeling on the floor of a sex club's bathroom or anything else that is equally improbable. He looks at Jim, really looks at him — putting his cigarette out on the brick wall at their backs — and opens his mouth to say something more when a timer dings from inside the bakery.
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02 Aug 2026
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A giant, sprawling modern au with interlocking stories from different points of view.
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30 Jul 2026
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When two teenage boys from two powerful families disappear, Detective Inspector Paddy Mayne and Detective Sergeant Bill Fraser are on the case. While the investigation leads them to an unexplained murder, espionage and new political danger, both policemen start to question their place in 1950’s London, their own relationship and what the future means when the remnants of war are still affecting the innocent.
A sequel to The Lavender Boys.
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- Part 2 of Fraser and Mayne Mysteries
Bookmarked by HiddenAutumn
28 Jul 2026