About the Author

In 2004, Garry Ryan published his first Detective Lane novel, Queens Park. The second, The Lucky Elephant Restaurant, won a 2007 Lambda Literary Award. He has since published six more titles in the series: A Hummingbird Dance, Smoked, Malabarista, Foxed, Glycerine and the forthcoming Indiana Pulcinella. In 2009, Ryan was awarded Calgarys Freedom of Expression Award.

Reviews

Praise for Foxed

The sixth Detective Lane mystery is a very welcome edition to the series: a sometimes-fun, frequently-ballsy read with real life complications and characters who matter. It's also a stark reminder that there is life outside Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Add this one to your pile of recommended reading. Better yet, crack it open right away and be the first to say, Told you so!
~ Jeffrey Round, Lambda Award-winning author of Lake On The Mountain

"The sixth book in this series has a multicultural cast and seems modestly Canadian in other aspects: Ryan's prose is clear without being flashy, his antagonist is suitably villainous without descending into melodrama, the police themselves show a laudable diligence and the supporting characters are allowed their own flashes of competence and pluck. Even the minor antagonist of Robert Rowe, whose misguided quest for personal vengeance needlessly complicates Lane and Saliba's job, gets an unusually sympathetic treatment."
~ Publishers Weekly

"[a]bove all, it is his characters. One grows to love them, to admire them, and to realize that, as with all people whom one loves, sometimes one wants to shake them. Come to think of it, though, the last never happened, not even once, in this novel."
~ Drewey Wayne Gunn, Reviewing the Evidence

"[a] good, fast read with a pertinent story, believable characters, lashings of violence and consistent suspense..."
~ Caterina Edwards, Alberta Views