{"id":12290,"date":"2019-11-27T18:10:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T23:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=12290"},"modified":"2022-08-28T18:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T22:17:57","slug":"murder-takes-the-high-road-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12290","title":{"rendered":"Murder Takes the High Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murder Takes the High Road<\/em> (2018) Josh Lanyon<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Murder<\/a>I believe this is the first story I read by Josh Lanyon. IIRC I chose it because it was a mystery, and had a M\/M romance.<\/p>\n

Carter Matheson is on a Tours to Die For trip through Scotland that was supposed to be a birthday present for him and his boyfriend. Now Carter is on his own and Trevor is there with the guy who replaced Carter. But Carter loves Vanessa Rayburn’s mysteries, and is not interested in giving his ticket to Vance, the New Guy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s St. Patrick\u2019s,\u201d the cabbie said. \u201cA Polish girl was murdered there about ten years ago. Her killer buried her under the confessional.\u201d <\/p>\n

If he\u2019d hoped to shock us, he was talking to the wrong bunch of tourists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If that isn’t difficult enough, he ends up with a roommate at the last minute, and has to share a room with a stranger for the rest of the trip.<\/p>\n

There is a fascinating thread to this story, which is that as a teenager, Vanessa Rayburn killed her boyfriend, and served time for the murder. The obvious parallel here is Anne Perry, and there is a lot of discussion about guilt, culpability, time served, and if you can ever move beyond your past.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want to say what I was thinking, which was I\u2019d somehow\u2014 although I knew it was illogical\u2014 expected someone more… quiet, penitent. Someone who seemed to show awareness and regret for having committed the ultimate offense of murdering another human.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The other thread is what an asshole Trevor is. And BOY is he a complete jerk.<\/p>\n

Despite having been the one who had the affair and was breaking off our relationship, he had continually treated me like the bad guy, the villain, the untrustworthy one. I didn\u2019t know if that was his way of handling guilt\u2014 convincing himself that even his infidelity was somehow my fault?\u2014 or if he just really was a complete jerk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But that’s fine, because Carter is adorable, things work out for him in the end, and the mystery is pretty good. That combined with the other threads made this a really interesting story, and one I enjoyed re-reading.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Carina Press
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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