In "The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks," Josh Lanyon does it again, he combines murder, mystery and romance all in the same book! So far of all Lanyon's book, this is the one I have enjoyed most (although "Dangerous Ground" is a close second). The story starts as Perry, a struggling artist comes home from a vacation to find a dead body in his bathtub. Running downstairs to tell the landlady and his fellow neighbors, one a very sexy ex-Navy SEAL named Nick, he has an asthma attack. But by the time the cops arrive, the body has disappeared. The next 150 pages are excellent as Lanyon moves all the players around like a good game of Clue while attempting to throw the reader off the trail of who the killer is.

However, the best part of the book was the romance of Nick and Perry. While I would have enjoyed a little more sexytimes between the two, the romance angle worked just fine for me too. Nick is coming out of a bad divorce and is reluctant to get involved with the inexperienced Perry, whose flaws and quirks are a great part of his charm, but the two cannot resist each other.

While I might have figured out the killer half way through the book, I still enjoyed the romance of the story. Pick up this title, you won't regret it! ( )

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. The mystery plot is quite good, a nice little who-done-it. There is a fun grab-bag of eccentric characters as well as a creepy, old boarding house. Perry is young and a little naive at times, but he’s likable. Nick is tough, but he has a gentle side, too. He’s older and more experienced than Perry, so the two characters balance each other quite well. The story is light, suspenseful, funny, sexy, and sweet.http://iheartpaperbacks.wordpress.com/ ( )

Set in Vermont in a weird old boarding house, Perry returns early from the worst weekend ever to find a dead man in his bath tub. He rushes out and bumps into Nick - tall, dark and hostile, ex SEAL. And the journey commences. A lot of time is spent on the mystery and the history of the house, but the book sparked for me with the interactions between Nick and Perry. I enjoyed this book. I wasn't as enamored with it as I was with the PsyCop series, but it had a sweetness to it that I didn’t expect, and was happy spending time with it. ( )

It was just okay for me truthfully. Lots of lenghts that got a little boring and as always, the romance with Lanyon is very strained, stretched and sometimes awkward. Lots of confusion when the straight ex-marine announces that he's really gay. That seemed absolutely out of nowhere from the mouth of someone who sounded near homophobic at the beginning. It didn't work at all for me. The one sex scene, was pretty disappointing too. I absolutely loved Perry's asthma though. Not as much as Tim's epilepsy (From Partners in Crime) but a close second nonetheless. So, I still liked it overall but yeah, it wasn't extraordinary. I just don't believe Josh Lanyon will ever be a romantic author, I doubt that's the goal anyway and I think that's how everybody likes it but it's not really the style for me. Too many mysteries suffer from this bad relationship syndrome to keep me interested despite the author's undisputed ability to hold a thrilling, bone chilling suspense. ( )

Classic murder mystery in a boarding-house setting. There's suspense, humor, and heart as the story unravels the heroes' dilemmas, the tenants' quirks, and interesting facts about the historical home in which they all live. Alongside the mystery plot, a relationship begins to form between the main character, an asthmatic painter/librarian who found the first body, and an former Navy SEAL.

I thought the story was fun and Lanyon does a nice job of having a main character who walks the line between (male) damsel-in-distress and very-capable person. If Lanyon decides to turn this into a series, I'd definitely buy the next one. ( )