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Anna Haycraft (September 9, 1932 - March 8, 2005) was an English writer and essayist who wrote under the nom de plume Alice Thomas Ellis. She was the author of numerous novels, and also of some non-fiction, including cookery books. Born Anna Margaret Lindholm, she was half-Finnish, half-Welshian and spent part of her childhood as an evacuee in North Wales, a period she later wrote about in A Welsh Childhood. She later moved to North London.
Haycraft's parents belonged to the positivist and atheist Church of Humanity founded by Auguste Comte, but she left to become a Roman Catholic at the age of 19. Shortly afterwards, she entered a convent as a postulant, but had to leave due to a health condition.
In 1956, she married Colin Haycraft, owner of the publishing company, Duckworth. They were happily married until his death, in 1995. The couple had seven children, raised in Anna's religion, but they were also struck by tragedy: their daughter Mary died in infancy at the age of two days, and their son Joshua was killed in an accident while still in his teens.
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First Book - The Sin Eater (1977)
Last Book - Hotel Lucifer (1999)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Haycraft
The first book I read in this series was for sure good but in the end I wasn’t sure if it was a romance; that story indeed was more about the BCPI agency than the relationship between Sam and Bo. More than once I had to go back reading some chapter to actually pick up the sign of a blossoming love relationship between the two men, and when the novel reached its end, the love relationship didn’t, on the contrary it was more or less at its beginning and it was not even sure being long-lasting. That was the situation at the beginning of book 2, with Bo still in the closet, his marriage in crisis but not closed and Sam who had his moments of discouragement, so much that he was even tempted by another man. Starting book 3, this book, Sam and Bo are still plodding up an hard path, but I’m finally seeing some light at the end of that path. 
The first book I read in this series was for sure good but in the end I wasn’t sure if it was a romance; that story indeed was more about the BCPI agency than the relationship between Sam and Bo. More than once I had to go back reading some chapter to actually pick up the sign of a blossoming love relationship between the two men, and when the novel reached its end, the love relationship didn’t, on the contrary it was more or less at its beginning and it was not even sure being long-lasting. That was the situation at the beginning of book 2, with Bo still in the closet, his marriage in crisis but not closed and Sam who had his moments of discouragement, so much that he was even tempted by another man. Starting book 3, this book, Sam and Bo are still plodding up an hard path, but I’m finally seeing some light at the end of that path. 
