Books shelved as gay-tective-novels: Home Fir by Kate Sherwood, Soul Breaker by Clara Coulson, Reasonable Doubt by Gregory Ashe, Paterny Case by Gr...
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- BT NOVELS WH A GAY ROMANCE AND CRIME SOLVG PLOT/SUBPLOT
- BT GAY ROMANCE MAFIA/YAKUZA/ORGANIZED CRIME
- FAVORE GAY THRILLERS
- GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS
- BE GAY, DO CRIM: YA MYSTERY/THRILLERS STARRG LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS
BT NOVELS WH A GAY ROMANCE AND CRIME SOLVG PLOT/SUBPLOT
If this is the sort of thg you like to dive to for whatever reason, check out the 20 mt-read “be gay, do crime” books a range of genr that are full of elaborate plans, queer characters, and a whole lot of revenge. After beg outed by a raid on a gay bar, officer Evanr Mills is kicked off the force.
Insurance vtigator Dave Brandstretter is unapologetilly gay, tough, and mascule, but also tenr. ” Published 1970, the book lnched a groundbreakg seri, the gold standard for ser gay crime fictn.
BT GAY ROMANCE MAFIA/YAKUZA/ORGANIZED CRIME
Gay and Lato, Nava’s fense attorney Henry Rs echo Brandstretter’s mixture of vulnerabily and hardboiled edgs. She’s a dited, sensive, and skilled tective, but she remas closeted orr to navigate the homophobic LAPD.
FAVORE GAY THRILLERS
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GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS
When I created DS Adam Tyler for Firewatchg, I did so partly bee I wanted to create a fictnal tective who was gay.
There were gay protagonists (rare, but they did exist), and there were gay police officers (often send or third tier the hierarchy of characters), but I uld not thk of a sgle queer protagonist. He explicly stat that he isn’t homosexual, but his obssn wh Dickie Greenleaf, and his tenncy towards unreliable narratn more than suggt otherwise. I fd almost nceivable that there was one gay character at the helm of a mystery seri for over twenty years, and I only very recently disvered him!
BE GAY, DO CRIM: YA MYSTERY/THRILLERS STARRG LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS
He’s openly gay, or homosexual (Hansen apparently hated the term gay), and though he feels no need to announce to everyone he meets, he’s not ashamed of eher.
Firstly, like his ntemporary Delafield, he’s an actual p, an LAPD reer police officer (there seem to be far fewer male gay tectiv than female). He’s also a big bear of a man who breaks a lot of the earlier stereotyp (so often mysteri and thrillers the gay man is portrayed as a sleazy, sadistic baddie wh unwholome sexual predilectns). So far, Sturgis has steadfastly avoid beg killed off (a rare skill for a gay supportg st member), which mt make him the longt nng gay character a mystery seri ever.
Set 1980s San Francis, he’s unashamed to tackle the thornier issu of gay life—dgs, alhol and the AIDS crisis. Hap Colls is the sensive, broodg workg-class labourer who avoids vlence at almost any st, while Leonard Pe is a gay black Vietnam veteran wh a vlent streak, who’s more than happy to shoot any man who unrtimat him.