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.
BT GAY ROMANCE MAFIA/YAKUZA/ORGANIZED CRIME
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. Gay and Lato, Nava’s fense attorney Henry Rs echo Brandstretter’s mixture of vulnerabily and hardboiled edgs.
FAVORE GAY THRILLERS
She’s a dited, sensive, and skilled tective, but she remas closeted orr to navigate the homophobic LAPD. Bt Novels wh a Gay Romance and Crime Solvg Plot/Subplot (766 books),. Bt Novels wh a Gay Romance and Crime Solvg Plot/Subplot.
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GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS
Bt Gay Romance Mafia/Yakuza/Organized Crime.
BE GAY, DO CRIM: YA MYSTERY/THRILLERS STARRG LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS
There exists a List for Bt Gay Romance wh a Crimal or Secret Organizatn Theme already. This will be a place for Gay, M/M Mafia (Italian, Rsian, other), Yakuza and other anized crime 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! 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).