Series Name: Frey & McGray - Oscar De Muriel Length: 6 books, all 400-500 pages Time Period: 1880s-1890s Edinburgh Shipping Potential: potential m/m, f/m and f/m/m What Do I Ship? Frey/McGray to an admittedly slightly frenzied degree. Frey is a prissy English detective, who is ABSOLUTELY a dick on every level but who is still somehow a good human being underneath. McGray is a Scottish detective who is loud, brutish, and with a worryingly intense belief in the supernatural… Which was born from great tragedy in his personal life, and doesn’t stop him from being incredibly kind to people who deserve it. They just have a dynamic that's absolute catnip to me. They're a historical detective duo, they're forced into close proximity to each other while solving cases, they have a certain amount of loyalty to each other... But at the same time they have an interesting amount of hostility between them, a large amount of mistrust and a lot of things to work through. They obviously care about each other a little while still finding each other incredibly difficult, and I LOVE it.
I also ship Frey/McGray/Caroline Ardglass. Frey and McGray remain Frey and McGray. Caroline is the granddaughter of one of the most prominent women in Edinburgh, she’s just as much of a jerk as the other two and also has rather rebellious views on how a woman should behave in society due to her rather complicated family background. I just think they'd be really interesting (and funny) together! Frey is a stuck up jerk with a surprising amount of heart, McGray is an overly impulsive jerk who has a surprising core of kindness and Caroline is a spiky jerk who has a surprising level of loyalty to those she truly loves. I think the combination of all of them together would really piss everybody around them off, and would also lead to all of them having a better time in general! Summary: Ian Frey, English detective and jerk, loses his fiance and his job on the same day and ends up sent to Edinburgh to help head up a department focused on solving supernatural crimes. There he meets Adolphus “Nine Nails” McGray, Scottish detective (and jerk) with an extremely tragic family history. Together they have to solve potentially supernatural crimes, all while resisting the urge to murder each other. Why Do I love It?: I just found these books so incredibly gripping. The cases are really interesting, the setting (with its slightest edge of paranormal stuff) is excellent and I just really love all the characters.
Frey & McGray
Length: 6 books, all 400-500 pages
Time Period: 1880s-1890s Edinburgh
Shipping Potential: potential m/m, f/m and f/m/m
What Do I Ship? Frey/McGray to an admittedly slightly frenzied degree. Frey is a prissy English detective, who is ABSOLUTELY a dick on every level but who is still somehow a good human being underneath. McGray is a Scottish detective who is loud, brutish, and with a worryingly intense belief in the supernatural… Which was born from great tragedy in his personal life, and doesn’t stop him from being incredibly kind to people who deserve it. They just have a dynamic that's absolute catnip to me. They're a historical detective duo, they're forced into close proximity to each other while solving cases, they have a certain amount of loyalty to each other... But at the same time they have an interesting amount of hostility between them, a large amount of mistrust and a lot of things to work through. They obviously care about each other a little while still finding each other incredibly difficult, and I LOVE it.
I also ship Frey/McGray/Caroline Ardglass. Frey and McGray remain Frey and McGray. Caroline is the granddaughter of one of the most prominent women in Edinburgh, she’s just as much of a jerk as the other two and also has rather rebellious views on how a woman should behave in society due to her rather complicated family background. I just think they'd be really interesting (and funny) together! Frey is a stuck up jerk with a surprising amount of heart, McGray is an overly impulsive jerk who has a surprising core of kindness and Caroline is a spiky jerk who has a surprising level of loyalty to those she truly loves. I think the combination of all of them together would really piss everybody around them off, and would also lead to all of them having a better time in general!
Summary: Ian Frey, English detective and jerk, loses his fiance and his job on the same day and ends up sent to Edinburgh to help head up a department focused on solving supernatural crimes. There he meets Adolphus “Nine Nails” McGray, Scottish detective (and jerk) with an extremely tragic family history. Together they have to solve potentially supernatural crimes, all while resisting the urge to murder each other.
Why Do I love It?: I just found these books so incredibly gripping. The cases are really interesting, the setting (with its slightest edge of paranormal stuff) is excellent and I just really love all the characters.