Neil Plakcy: 77 books

What if the one who got away came back-and you had to work together to achieve your dreams? Eddie Gonzalez and Darren Carter had a hot college romance, derailed when they graduated and went in different directions. But now they're both on South Beach, both trying to start gourmet tea...

It's mid-May, and Manny Garcia has just graduated from Florida University (FU) with his bachelor's degree in construction management, and landed his dream job, working for handsome Walter Loredo on a warehouse project just west of downtown Miami. He's living in a condo on South Beach with two of his...

Handsome South Beach model/barista Gavin Kaczmarek wonders if someone will ever see beneath his exterior to the real him. How can they, when he doesn't know what he wants himself? Then he launches a musical career with the help of experienced producer Miles Goodwin. The obvious attraction between...

Mahu---a generally negative Hawaiian term for homosexuals---introduces a unique character to detective fiction. Kimo Kanapa'aka is a handsome mixed-race surfer living in Honolulu a police detective confronting his homosexuality in an atmosphere of macho bravado within the police force.A man of intelligence...

One day I looked up and realized that I had written a whole lot of erotic fiction for anthologies and magazines. I thought I'd put together a collection of those stories myself. Then I realized I'd written even more than I thought, and that I had enough stories for three different collections. Each...

Warren Updegrove's best "friend with benefits" is Thom Lodge, a geeky grad student who tutored him in math when he was a struggling undergrad on the football team. After playing in the NFL for a year, Warren is released from the team and returns to South Florida, where he drinks too...

Two words describe the appeal of skateboarders: barely legal. Skateboarding is not allowed on most public property, so it takes a tough and independent young man to find the best places to shred. No wonder skaters have become the object of fantasies by gay men: brimming with attitude and sexual confidence,...

Living in the awesome gay candy store called South Beach Brian Cohen laments his inability to score a great job or a sexy boyfriend--until he lands at the website GayLife.com where his hunky boss may want more from him than just his management skills.

Aidan Greene and Liam McCullough feel like they've aged out of the bodyguard business—but a desperate call from former client Slava Vishinev draws them back. In a story ripped from the headlines, Slava's gay son Arseny has vanished in Chechnya, where homosexuals are persecuted and imprisoned. What...

A famous, erotically charged painting called The Russian Boy depicts a nude Russian noble named Alexei Dubernin, younger lover of painter Fyodor Luschenko. Their affair takes place in the elegance of a lost world, the Russian enclave on the Cote d'Azur in  the years just before the revolution of...

Bodyguard partners Aidan and Liam are deeply in love, living as expatriates in Nice, France. When Aidan's distant cousins in Istanbul need protection from dangerous adversaries he and Liam are on the the next plane to Turkey – but the real danger to their relationship may come from their very different...

Now that he's been forced out of the closet and moved to Monaco, retired Russian oligarch Slava Vishinev longs for a sexy new life. An assassination attempt forces him to hire bodyguards Aidan and Liam to protect him. Who could be after him – his estranged son, who has joined an anti-capitalist...

MAHU FIRE, the third Mahu Investigation from Lambda Award finalist Neil S. Plakcy, begins as openly gay Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa'aka attends a local charity event in support of gay marriage. When a bomb disrupts the gala, Kimo, his family and friends are thrust into a deadly contest...

MAHU SURFER, thesecond book Neil Plakcy's Mahu Investigations mystery series, sends gay Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa'aka back to his surfing past. His new boss asks the former competitive surfer to go undercover on Oahu's North Shore to find the killer of three surfers. The catch: he can't...