--- title: "Books" description: "All novels by Jern Tonkoi, grouped by series and standalone stories, with reading order, covers, blurbs, samples, and store links." canonical: "https://jerntonkoi.com/books/" html: "https://jerntonkoi.com/books/" type: "books" ai_usage: "welcome for search, AI input, and AI training" --- # Books All novels by Jern Tonkoi, grouped by series and standalone stories, with reading order, covers, blurbs, samples, and store links. ## Pages - [In the Shadow of Death](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/in-the-shadow-of-death/) -- When Death finds the newly dead trapped in a Birmingham hospital, Tobias and Stuart's fragile love is tested by violence, grief, and the terrifying difference between care and control. - [Judas and the Ghost](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/judas-and-the-ghost/) -- When Tara Linskey's private image appears in public under a threat signed The Judgement, Detective Bria Friday follows a case built from shame, grief, access, coercion, and performance. - [Lanta: Another Life](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/lanta/) -- One moonlit kiss on Ko Lanta binds Lester and Silom across years of family pressure, distance, silence, violence, and return in a bittersweet adult M/M romance about lost time and the life love can still claim. - [Metastable: Book One of Two](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/metastable-book-1/) -- After Carter Brent's carefully managed friendship with Tan Naiya breaks open over a stolen year, the two men turn London labs, queer nightlife, and dangerous lessons in desire into the first unstable step toward choosing each other. - [Metastable: Book Two of Two](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/metastable-book-2/) -- After Carter and Tan's first unstable commitment breaks under the weight of shame, desire, and old damage, a year of separation leads them back through London, Bangkok Pride, queer community, and the hard work of choosing each other without making love another form of control. - [Murder at Torre Manor](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/murder-at-torre-manor/) -- When Albert Hooper is found dead at Torre Manor with a crossbow bolt in his chest, Noah Yalland follows a tipped tumbler, fete photographs, property pressure, and village loyalties toward a secret someone is ready to kill for. - [Murder in Treggan Bay](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/murder-in-treggan-bay/) -- When journalist Noah Yalland returns to Treggan Bay to deal with Grannie Maggie's Saltwind cottage, a developer's death in the village library pulls him through old records, local protest, and family secrets he was never meant to read. - [The Boy the Wolves Took](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-boy-the-wolves-took/) -- Cassandra O'Neill's murder is solved on paper until suspicious money, broken laptop wreckage, and hidden evidence in a painting reopen the case. - [The Boy with the Crow](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-boy-with-the-crow/) -- When Cassandra O'Neill is pulled from the River Lee, a guarded Cork coder with a skull above his monitor is dragged into police pressure, old guilt, explicit intimacy, and an obsession that will not stay buried. - [The Curse of Time](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-curse-of-time/) -- When Time cheats and endings break, Tobias hears the Universe calling him home, and the family around him must turn love into action before the clock finishes its work. - [The Day Music Died](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-day-music-died/) -- When the world forgets music, a silent guitar and an impossible stranger draw Tobias into a queer speculative romance about grief, memory, desire, and bringing sound back to life. - [The Gravedigger's Handbook](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-gravediggers-handbook/) -- At St Aubin's Rest, a scarred gravekeeper's careful rules begin to fail when a restless young artist tied to a new grave starts seeing him too clearly. - [The Three of Us](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-three-of-us/) -- After one torchlit kiss complicates a campus friendship, Rumi, Kai, and Sam must face attraction, ambition, family pressure, illness, and the relief and risk of finally telling the truth. - [The Watchman's Secret](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-watchman-s-secret/) -- When storm-washed remains surface near Hollow Eye Lighthouse, Noah Yalland follows a Belgian pistol, a marked cigarette case, and a gold watch into Treggan Bay's older secrets. ## Source Links - Canonical HTML: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/ - Markdown companion: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/index.md