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Garry Ryan

In 2004, Garry Ryan published his first Detective Lane novel, Queen’s 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 Calgary’s Freedom of Expression Award. His series of World War II aviation adventure stories began publication in 2012 with Blackbirds with the second instalment, Two Blackbirds, releasing in Spring 2014.

Books by Garry Ryan

Sea of Cortez

The Detective Lane Casebook #2

Matanzas

Indiana Pulcinella

The Lucky Elephant Restaurant

Glycerine

Two Blackbirds

Two Blackbirds

Foxed

The Detective Lane Casebook #1

Blackbirds

Malabarista

Smoked

Hummingbird Dance, A

A Hummingbird Dance

Lucky Elephant Restaurant, The

Queen's Park