Triangulation

Borealis Investigations, Book 2

De: Gregory Ashe

Narrado por: Charlie David

After a recent case with a treacherous client, North and Shaw are ready to go back to work building Borealis Investigations. They’re also ready to go back to dodging their feelings for each other, with neither man ready to deal with the powerful emotions the Matty Fennmore case stirred up.

Everything is getting back to normal when their secretary asks for help: her girlfriend’s boss has gone missing. Shep Collins runs a halfway house for LGBTQ kids and is a prominent figure in St. Louis’s gay community. When he disappears, however, dark truths begin to emerge about Shep’s past: his string of failed relationships, a problem with disappearing money, and his work, years before, as one of the foremost proponents of conversion therapy.

When Shep’s body turns up at the halfway house, the search for a missing person becomes the search for a murderer. As North and Shaw probe for answers, they find that they are not the only ones who have come looking for the truth about Shep Collins.

Their investigation puts them at odds with the police who are working the same case, and in that conflict, North and Shaw find threads leading back to the West End Slasher - the serial killer who almost took Shaw’s life in an alley, seven years before.

As the web of an ancient conspiracy comes to light, Shaw is driven to find answers, and North faces what might be his last chance to tell Shaw how he really feels.

©2019 Gregory Ashe (P)2020 Gregory Ashe

Loved it! (cliffhanger warning)

Also available via KU.

The is the second book in the Borealis Investigations series and it feel like a middle book. I read the first book and was thrilled to get to listen to this one. I *think* it's the center of a trilogy and I don't believe it would work for someone to jump in with this one. Ashe did give a little back story, but not enough for this to be a standalone. This absolutely ends on a HFN for Shaw & North as well as a cliffhanger for the mystery/suspense.

It was missing a little something as far as connecting with the characters as I felt I did in the first book. But I'm still going to round 4.5 stars up to 5, because I'm invested in the story and characters. The big question is whether I'll be able to wait for Declination on audio or I'll just break down and read it.

This was my first narration by Charlie David and I really enjoyed his style. I do feel like there were times where the secondary characters could have more unique voices ~ because there were a few places in the story where a conversation involving several people was going on and it was a bit difficult to tell who was speaking. Besides that, it was fantastic and I'm definitely looking forward to him in the future. Again, I'm rounding up.

I received a free copy of this audiobook and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Amazing

This book had me engaged from the very beginning. It's gripping and intense. It forces you to pay attention because there's so much going on. This book is so much more than a murder mystery, it's full of so much emotion. Shaw and North's story continues in book 3 and I can't wait to dive in.
Narrator Charlie David does an amazing job in bringing the characters to life.

Another winner for Gregory Ashe!

While this book start like a crime mystery, it becomes a tense relationship story that tears at everything the characters in the story believe. Well done, you will ache for more!

Loved this!

Ok, wow. This blew me away.

First off, I hadn't read the first book. I feel as though there were things that I'd missed, but I caught on and it didn't really impact my experience... I still loved this!

North and Shaw had been friends/partners in their PI Firm for 8 years. They knew each other like brothers, yet there was something sparking between them.

There was a lot going on in this book. They each were in relationships that had some drama, they each suffered from past abuse, and there were 2 current cases and an old case that they were working on. For as much action as there was, I was immediately sucked in and on the edge of my seat.

Trying to solve a murder, trying to figure out different relationships, hoping for things to blossom, this book was fast-paced and sweet, funny and intriguing. I absolutely loved this listen.

Charlie David is a narrator that I've enjoyed before, but this was brilliant. He performed magic here, delving deep into the emotions and scenarios with ease. I loved every voice!

Loved it!!!!!

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Triangulation by Gregory Ashe
Triangulation (Borealis Investigations, #2)
by Gregory Ashe (Goodreads Author)
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Victoria Loves Books's reviewSep 28, 2019 · edit
it was amazing
bookshelves: mm-romance, mystery-crime, best-reads-2019, favorite-author, 5-star, banter, audiobooks
Read 2 times. Last read January 20, 2020 to February 1, 2020.
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Loved the audiobook just as much as ebook!!!

The book is narrated by Charlie David who does an awesome job bringing this book to life. Sexy smooth voice that matches what you would expect from North and down to earth voice that matches Shaw's authentic self. I loved it and can't wait to hear the next one!!!

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I haven’t read all of Greg’s books yet, but every time I finish one, I’m surprised at how well-written each is. This was another awesome book and I liked it better than the first one. The characters are well-written and come alive. The plot and mystery are alive and well in this book, as it has been in the other books I have read. He has a real talent for drawing you in and keeping you there and I’m a huge fan of his storytelling ability (in case you couldn't tell). The MC's are well developed and come with a lot of baggage however, these two had me laughing out loud with their banter.

What’s even better is we have a Hazard & Somers sighting in this book! Wouldn't it be great to see a future book with North/Shaw and Hazard/Somers?

Highly recommend for murder mystery fans!

A sequel that is every bit as good as the first!!!

Please just for gosh sake, start with the first book of the series (Orientation: Borealis Investigation, Book 1) because of the complexity of the story, you simply must. And you'll be so very glad you did as it will increase your enjoyment immensely. Let's start with the synopsis, shall we? In Gregory Ashe's 'Triangulation: Borealis Investigations, Book 2', Shaw and North are approached about the disappearance of Shep Collins, who runs a halfway house for LGBTQ kids. Shaw looks into the man's background, they discover working with LGBTQ youth is nothing new for Shep as he has run a Conversion Therapy camp sometime in the past, though at present Shep Collins is an openly gay, happily married man. It seemed that the man had a habit of picking up and running when he decides to remake himself, so the guys are hard-pressed to determine if this is just another example of the same. When he is found stabbed to death and placed in the trunk of the car of the very person that hires Borealis to locate him, North and Shaw are divided on who is the likely culprit, especially when it is discovered that one of the Conversion Camp's past clients is currently working at the youth center. North and Shaw unearth additional information that Shep Collins wasn't as upstanding as was initially believed. This constitutes the major plot for Triangulation, Book 2.
Continuing with the plot for the series arc is Shaw's belief that the wrong man has been convicted and imprisoned as the West End Slasher. He goes to visit the prisoner only to find that he conveniently died the night before. North and Jadon Reck of the St. Louis Police Department (Shaw's current boyfriend), are not particularly thrilled about Shaw's decision to visit the convict but both agree that the wrong man was punished for the crimes. This prompts Jadon to do some digging on his own, as he is certain a coverup concerning the police department is at the heart of the prisoner's death.
As for Shaw's current boyfriend, things between them are complicated by Shaw's love for North that has continued unabated since their time in college. By North looking after Shaw during his physical and mental recuperation from the West End Slasher attack, his love is completely relatable. It is compounded by North's continued willingness to save Shaw's life, as was the case in the previous book when the betrayal results in an understandable setback concerning Shaw's disposition towards sexual intimacies. As demonstrated in the first book, Shaw is quite willing to protect North, too and he does so in a way that gives readers a glimpse of the ferocity of which Shaw is capable. For the most part, things do not work out with Jadon and their relationship ends while Shaw and North become lovers at last!
North's other relationships continue to an extent that other glimpses of his past and therefore insights into his character are on offer. There's the very crocked Uncle Ronnie who trying to track North down to have that favor returned. There's the truly despicable Tucker who is trying to get back together with North after he leaves. There's the father whose relationship with North is purely dysfunctional, being absent of anything remotely resembling paternal love. All give us empathy and admiration for North McKinney that is, in my humble opinion, the brightest spot of the series thus far.
Writer Gregory Ashe has this way of giving readers a blatant glimpse of 'who done it', yet he blind-sides us with so very many other titillating and tantalizing details that fully flesh out the narrative and leave one second-guessing. As is his usual, there is dynamic progress with the subplot in the novel as well as along the series arc. The resolutions of the subplots are satisfying without the conclusion of the conflict in the series. Yet again, he's given readers much to look forward to! Damn, the man is good.

Another brilliantly narrated installment in the North/Shaw series

Beautifully narrated by Charlie David, Triangulation is the second, very successful installment in Gregory Ashe’s Borealis Invesigations series (so far, my favorite series from this author - although he's been on a roll recently with new book series, so I have a bit of catching up to do).
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​​There's a certain misanthropic thread that runs throughout Ashe’s detective novels, both this one about North and Shaw but also in the Hazard and Somerset books. In some ways, I associate it with a kind of grim, mid-western American Gothic, where very few of your neighbors are really the nice people they try to pass themselves off as. That so many of the unpleasant characters in this book are LGBTQ could be off-putting if it weren't for the fact that almost no one comes off in a good light (except poor Jadon, a cop dating Shaw at the start of the book, maybe a couple secondary characters, and the kids struggling to grow up at a LGBTIQ youth center, which is central to the story).
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​​Scanning the other reviews of this book, is clear Ashe has hit a sweet spot among his fans. The reparte and dynamics between North and Shaw have a lot to do with this - they may each be dealing with their own, albeit different, traumatic pasts, but they're love and concern for each other shines through every page, more often than not with a humor that is both a mask and balm.
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​​I read the books out of order, so I've finished the first three - but the next book in the North and Shaw series, Indirection, is finally out! And, just as important, narrated by Charlie David, whose stamped his unique talents on this series to such an extent I can't envision anyone else ever narrating them.
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​​I'd like to thank the author for providing an ARC of the audiobook for an unbiased review of Triangulation. It's fantastic - time well spent.
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Don't let the boring cover and name fool you

Another great book by Gregory Ashe. I liked this one better than the previous book. It gets much deeper into the storylines and characters and all the back stories start making sense. A great listen excellently narrated. Cant wait for the next one!

Whoo Ha!

This just gets better and better. Wild, crazy, but so brilliant. Love these two, so hard. Charlie David is perfect.

Best Friend PI's Hilarious Angsty Slow Burn

Mystery set in St Louis with gay best friends as partners of a investigation agency specializing in helping queer clients.

This is the second series by Gregory Ashe I’ve checked out and like the first it is flawless and I recommend it highly. Like the Hazard and Somerset series, it centers queer men working as partners, investigating complex mysteries that end up involving police corruption and touches on issues relating to either their pasts or issues for queer individuals at large.

The two partners have years of past (platonic) history and their own personal traumas, flaws, and hang ups, but an attraction and potential for romance simmers under the surface. While angst and corruption and challenges fill the novel, at its core is a devoted and unconditionally supportive friendship between the two that often contains a great deal of jokes and humor that provides a balance to stop the novel from being too dark.