Garrick Jones

Gay Fiction, LGBTQ+, Crime & Mystery, Australian History, War, Spy Thriller, Adventure.

 

Garrick Jones
From the outback to the opera.

After a thirty year career as a professional opera singer, performing as a soloist in opera houses and in concert halls all over the world, I took up a position as lecturer in music in Australia in 1999, at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, which is now part of CQUniversity.

Brought up in Australia, between the bush and the beaches of the Eastern suburbs, I retired in 2015 and now live in the tropics, writing, gardening, and finally finding time to enjoy life and to re-establish a connection with who I am after a very busy career on the stage and as an academic.

I write mostly historical gay fiction in two distinct styles; books that are erotic and those that leave things up to the reader's imagination. The stories are always about relationships and the inner workings of men; sometimes my fellas get down to the nitty-gritty, sometimes it's up to you, the reader, to fill in the blanks.

Every book is story driven; spies, detectives, murders, epic dramas, there's something for everyone. I also love to write about my country and the things that make us Aussies and our history different from the rest of the world.

I'm research driven. I always try to do my best to give the reader a sense of what life was like for my main characters in the world they live in.

 

 

Praise for ‘My Name is Jimmy’ by Garrick Jones



Books by Garrick Jones

The Road to Montepulciano

The Road to Montepulciano

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Two years after finishing his tour of duty in the Occupational Forces in Japan, Damson O’Reilly arrives in Siena, Italy. Sight-unseen at a local auction, he buys an abandoned Tuscan farmhouse in which he aims to write, paint, and start a new life.

 
Farewell, My Boy

Farewell, My Boy

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From the deserts of North Africa to the dark forests in the Third Reich, Tommy Haupner together with his American lover, Henry Reiter, lead their team in a daring mission to rescue a gifted young savant from Nazi Germany's T4 euthanasia program.

 
The Grocers' Son: A Clyde Smith Mystery

The Grocers' Son: A Clyde Smith Mystery

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Wheels within wheels, lies, extortion, and coverups. The apparition of a man long dead leads Clyde Smith to a bloody confrontation on a deserted beach in the tropics. This time, it’s not only his own life at risk but also that of one of his most valued and closest friends.

 
My Name is Jimmy

My Name is Jimmy

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In 1947, 27-year-old war veteran Jimmy Bacon travels to Darwin, the shattered capital of the Northern Territory, to visit the grave of his best mate, Sandy, and find out how he died during the Japanese bombings of the city in 1942. What he discovers leads to him almost losing his own life.

 
Servants of the Crown: The Turkish Pretender

Servants of the Crown: The Turkish Pretender

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London, 1855. Britain is at war with Russia in the Crimea. The Foreign Secretary has tasked four men, friends for over twenty years, to uncover and destroy a plot to overthrow Queen Victoria and install a foreign pretender on the throne. He must die.

 
X for Extortion

X for Extortion

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X for Extortion is an action-packed WW2 spy thriller, in which kidnap, blackmail, torture, and death are not only possibilities, but also the modus operandi of a secret Nazi organisation that will stop at nothing in order to achieve its ends.

 
The Gilded Madonna: A Clyde Smith Mystery

The Gilded Madonna: A Clyde Smith Mystery

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The urgent plea for help by a friend and ex-colleague, now toiling under the man who replaced him as detective sergeant at his old lockup, has Clyde Smith reluctantly helping the local police once more—this time with a clear threat against his life.

 
The Seventh of December: The Czarina's Necklace

The Seventh of December: The Czarina's Necklace

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The Seventh of December is a boys’ own adventure style spy thriller novel set during the early years of WW2. Virtuoso violinist before the war, now army intelligence officer working for the SOE, Tommy Haupner is a man to be reckoned with. Political intrigues and blackmail take him on dangerous missions behind enemy lines.

 
Wheelchair: Antarctica. Snow and Ice

Wheelchair: Antarctica. Snow and Ice

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Wheelchair is a slow-burn contemporary psychological crime thriller about a man who suffers from both OCD and PTSD, a man who is unwittingly caught up in a cross-border war between rival crime gangs-a conflict that almost leads to his death, and more than once.

 
The House with a Thousand Stairs

The House with a Thousand Stairs

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In 1947, Peter Dixon returns from war, his family dead, the homestead locked up, and the property de-stocked. The House with a Thousand Stairs follows the story of Peter's struggle to re-establish a new life in the bush with the help of his neighbours and his childhood friend, Frank Hunter, the local Indigenous policeman.

 
Australia's Son

Australia's Son

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Set in early Edwardian Sydney, Australia's Son is a theatre murder mystery steeped in a world of class divides, of music and the theatre. A wrongly delivered letter sparks a chain of events that threaten the life of Edward Murray, "Australia's Son", the most renowned operatic baritone of his day.

 
The Cricketer's Arms: A Clyde Smith Mystery

The Cricketer's Arms: A Clyde Smith Mystery

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The Cricketer's Arms is an old-fashioned, pulp fiction detective novel, set in beachside Sydney in 1956. It follows the intricacies of a complex murder case, involving a tight-knit group of queer men, sports match-fixing, and a criminal drug cartel.

 
The Boys of Bullaroo: Tales of War, Aussie Mateship and more

The Boys of Bullaroo: Tales of War, Aussie Mateship and more

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Six tales of men and war, spanning sixty years, and linked by a fictional outback town called Bullaroo. From the deserts of Egypt in 1919 to the American R&R in 1966, the stories follow the loves, losses and sexual awakenings of Australians both on the battlefield and in the bush.

 
 
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