#queer murder mystery

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✨ BOOK REVIEW ✨

Murder at the Matinee by Jamie West

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Jamie West has delivered another fun, cosy, exciting murder mystery with Murder at the Matinee.

I loved being back with Bertie and Hugh and the theatre. I was so sad when I thought they weren’t going to be working together and was so glad when I’d been over dramatically wrong.

Bertie is such an easy character to love. He’s gentle and affable and I think it’s him more than anything that makes me classify these books as cosy. It’s like settling in with an old friend.

The murder mystery was fun. Another somewhat closed-door mystery, which I don’t read nearly enough of. I didn’t pick the murderer at all, though I’m never very good at that to begin with, but it sure kept me guessing.

If you’re looking for a light murder mystery to read in the upcoming season, I definitely recommend picking this one up.

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Queer Books for Pride Month:

"Death in the Spires" by KJ Charles

This book is a murder mystery rather than romance.

It's still queer of course, but it focuses entirely on solving the murder of Toby Faysham.

Our narrator, Jeremy Kite, has only one thing in mind, so he begins to track down people who might've been connected with Toby's death.

This is a cleverly done dual-timeline story, told entirely in Jeremy's POV.

We start in 1905, ten years on from the murder. 

The book forces us to sit with questions of justice, forgiveness and who can truly judge people's sins.

This is definetly a more serious read, but nonetheless absolutely worth it.

[stxrdust-widow]

What if I choose to write the literature I wish to see in the world and write that queer homicide detective slowburn murder mystery that all the wlw (me) crave?

Already got characters and their backstories partially plotted and a scene and a half written and-

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A Queer Historical Murder Mystery To Fall In Love With

How could I resist Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen after hearing it was a historical fiction murder mystery where the main character is a gay man in the 1950s who gets employed by the wife of a soap dynasty businesswoman to investigate the death of said businesswoman? Not only is it LGBTQ representation, but its representation given by an author who identifies with the LGBTQ community. Someone who…

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BENOIT MY BELOVED

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If you vote please reblog if you can because I wanna see how stupid and niche this idea actually is :)

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"Wicked," investigator Trait from Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. Every investigator has 3 to 6 Traits!

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Hello Tumblr friends! I just wanted to let you know that DEATH AT MORNING HOUSE, my new, stand-alone MURDER MYSTERY will be out on AUGUST 6th. Do you like MURDER? A queer ROMANCE? A MYSTERY MANSION? A SCENTED CANDLE DISASTER? All of these things are contained within.

And if you pre-order ANYWHERE IN THE US, ANY FORM OF THE BOOK, you can have a FREE SET OF COOL MAGNETIC BOOKMARKS. Seriously. Just click and submit your receipt and that’s it. FREE COOL THING. Then MURDER MYSTERY.

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Do you know this queer character?

Mac is a Lesbian and uses she/her pronouns!

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[noahhawthorneauthor]

Also known as: different ways to say I loved all of these and please don't make me choose.

For real, I read 108 books this year and enjoyed nearly all of them. Some of them stayed with me more than others, looking at you, Big Bad Wolf Series and Liar City. Murder mysteries, historical fiction, and queers finding love were the major themes. Audiobooks and libraries kept me alive this year, without a doubt.

My TBR is never ending, but I have most of these already and the others I'm chomping at the bit to read. I really struggled with holding books and reading books on a screen these past few months, so fingers crossed I'll be able to do either long enough to finish a book or three.

Happy New Year friends!

[sillyh0uette]

Hey guys great day to be a multishipper

[hivemindclown]

The king and his jester

Characters belong to @totallyottie99

Grrrrrgrrrrrrrr I need them to have more content GRENDJDJDJJSJXJD TOTTIE PLEASE

GIVE US THE REFORMED VILLAIN AND HIS SILLY JESTER BF CONTENT AND MY LIFE IS YOURRRRRSSSSSSS

YOU CANNOT INTRODUCE ME TO THIS TROPE AND LEAVE ME WITH LITTLE TO NO CONTENTTR

Shaking the bars of my enclosure TOTTIE I SWEAR TO YOU ONE DAY I WILL COMMISSION YOU TO DRAW THESE TWO BEING CUTE AND LOVEY TOGETHER!!!

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KJ Charles is an absolute liar, pass it on.

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“Rough Pages” by Lev C. Rosen

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️/5 Stars

Thanks to Tor Publishing Group/Forge Books for the eARC of this book. It dropped last week! All opinions are my own.

“Rough Pages” is the third book in the Evander Mills noir-ish, queer, historical fiction detective series set in 1950s San Francisco. Outside of the murderous plots, the series provides a well-researched look into how queer people lived during that time period. I adore this series. I already had pre-ordered this book before I even read the ARC and I never do that.  

Evander “Andy” Mills is a gay private detective for queer people who can’t go to the police because the police are not friendly to the LGBTQ community. He was a cop for the San Francisco Police Department before he was fired after they found out he was gay. 

A friend of Andy comes to him with a case. The two owners of a queer-friendly bookstore have gone missing. Along with selling queer books from a store front, they have a mail-order service where they mail queer books to subscribers. And the fear, along with the safety of the owners, is that the list of subscribers could fall into the wrong hands and at the worst, those people’s lives could be in danger and at best, they could become the object of blackmail. Also, at this point in history, mailing queer books is a federal crime.

And this list potentially puts people that Andy’s holds dear at great risk. And he wants to do everything he can to keep them and their newly adopted baby safe.

Were the bookstore owners arrested by the Feds? Was this a Mafia hit done out of fear of the possible outing of one of their own? Was there a crime at all and are they just on vacation?

Andy also has to deal with a reporter who is getting a little too close for comfort and his former boss, who is making implicit and explicit threats to Andy’s safety. And is his own romantic life falling apart?

“Rough Pages” comes during the current political climate of banning books. And it has beautiful things to say about representation in books, why books are dangerous (in a good way), and books as a whole.

What’s more important truth or secrets? Especially if the truth puts peoples’ lives in danger.