Mystery

October 25, 2016 2 min read

Clinch is a vivid blood-soaked noir set in 1930s Stockholm. Read More

‘Leaving Paris’ by Collin Kelley

Steven Reigns

September 14, 2016 2 min read

Collin Kelley has created a trio of interlocking novels that can be read in any order. Read Leaving Paris first and you’ll know the “end” of the story. Read them backwards and the characters become richer and the intricate plot lines reveal their origins Read More

Blacklight: Porto’s ‘Sergio Y’ Renders a Compassionate but Incomplete Exploration of Gender Identity

August 14, 2016 3 min read

Sergio Y explores the limitations of truly knowing another person Read More

‘Sleeping Dogs Lie’ by E.J. Cochrane

Anna Furtado

Mystery Romance

July 9, 2016 2 min read

Cochrane has given us an endearing, though somewhat self-deprecating sleuth, in Maddie Smithwick Read More

‘Final Cut’ by Lynn Ames

Anna Furtado

June 16, 2016 3 min read

Jamison Parker is a best-selling novelist. Her wife, Katherine Kyle, was former Press Secretary to President Charles Hyland. In a...

Blacklight: Crime Fiction Makes Hidden LGBTQ Histories Visible

April 29, 2016 5 min read

The LGBTQ historical crime novel has a dual function: first, to uncover the particular past, true actions and motivations of a set of characters; and second, to re-insert queer characters back into a time period that has excluded them Read More

Blacklight: J. Aaron Sanders’ ‘Speakers of the Dead’ Recasts an American Literary Giant as a Crime-Fighting Journalist

February 28, 2016 2 min read

Sanders’ Speakers of the Dead traces the beginnings of Walt Whitman’s evolution into the father of free verse by way of a mystery story Read More

‘Murder Under the Bridge’ by Kate Jessica Raphael

Steve Susoyev

January 13, 2016 4 min read

Murder Under the Bridge is a complex murder mystery, a chaotic police procedural, and a juicy clandestine lesbian romance Read More

Blacklight: Is Patricia Highsmith’s Lesbian Classic ‘The Price of Salt’ Crime Fiction?