In Josh Lanyon"s "A Dangerous Thing", the second in his on-going series of Los Angeles based thrillers, featuring bookseller Adrien English, a holiday trip, following directly on from the ‘Gay Slasher Killings" narrated in "Fatal Shadows" proves far less relaxing than English anticipates. But one corpse is not enough and as the body count mounts, so does the excitement. Adrien English is the latest in an honourable tradition of LA tecs. Josh Lanyon lives in Los Angeles.