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Geography of Murder by P.A. Brown
Release Date: 06/2009
Publisher: MLR Press
ISBN: 978-1-60820-054-2 (print)
978-1-60820-055-9 (ebook)
Publisher Link: http://www.mlrbooks.com/ShowBook.php?book=PBGM0001

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Blurb: Jason Zachary wakes in bed with a dead man. George Blunt was a person of interest to the Santa Barbara police for allegedly abusing young girls. Now he's dead and young Jason, with his record for hustling and drug abuse is charged with his murder. But something is off for Detective Alexander Spider. Can he clear the man he finds himself attracted to? Because Spider has a darker secret than the fact he's gay in the macho police world of the SBPD. Can he keep his secret but still get his man? Two strong willed men whose desires collide in the dark BDSM world of bondage and pain. One seeks to be controlled, one seeks control. Will they go too far?

Excerpt:

"Where to?"

"My place. I'll give you directions."

"Goleta, huh?"

He remembered. I nodded.

"I've never been."

"Not much to look at. It's home."

Home was a tiny Spanish-tile stucco-sided bungalow tucked at the end of a dead end street on the north edge of town. My two nearest neighbors were shift workers at a nearby hospital and it was rare for them both to be home. It was quiet. Just the way I liked it.
I led Jason into the front room and pointed at a stool beside my butcher block bar. I pulled a pair of Mexicalis out of the bar fridge and set one in front of him. He opened it and swung around to study my living room. It was small, like the rest of the house, small and sparse. I don't go for decorating much. I missed that part of the fabled gay gene. The focus of the room was a forty-two inch plasma TV and Blu-Ray system. Over the four years since the abrupt meltdown of my marriage, I had rebuilt and added to my movie collection. I mostly have old classics, a few hokey, old-style horror and sci-fi flicks like the original The Day the Earth Stood Still and Forbidden Planet. I stepped up behind him. He tensed briefly then relaxed again. I wanted to pull him into my arms and taste him. I resisted the urge. For now.

I waved my beer at the collection lining one whole wall. "Want to watch something?"

Along with Hollywood classics I had a pretty hefty collection of porn. Mostly bondage stuff. Covers full of big leather men in chains and bonds. I saw him looking them over but he didn't pick anything. I swung the swivel stool around to face me and slipped my hand behind his neck. I squeezed. He shivered and leaned into my hand. I shifted to lessen the pressure in my groin.

"Is this a good idea, Alex?"

I liked the way my name sounded on his lips. But at the same time I didn't want him getting the idea he was calling the shots here. Not when he'd surrendered those rights to me by coming here.

"I know what I'm doing, Jason Aaron Zachary. Do your friends call you Zack?"

"Jason," he said. "My friends call me Jason."

I stroked the soft skin below his ear, lightly touching the Chinese tat I had noticed earlier. It was about the size of a silver dollar and looked like a figure standing beside a tree. "What does this mean?"

"Fate," he murmured.

"Whose? Yours? What is your fate, Jason?"

"To be alone, I think."

"You're not alone." My fingers moved down to his collar bone and lingered over the grooves and bumps there.

"You're a cop," he said. "I just got out of jail. Is this a good idea?"

I pushed his legs open and moved between them. My hand moved down his arm, fingers caressing the curve of his biceps under the fine silk shirt he wore. The silk felt cool, his skin underneath was furnace hot. I smoothed the heel of my hand over his nipple until it poked into my hand and his breath came hard and fast.

"It's the best idea I've had all day."

I pressed closer, touching, my face less than an inch from his. His eyes dilated and I smelled his desire, felt his warm breath on my cheek.

"Take your shirt off."