crime fiction Archives

Cover of The Savage Kind by John Copenhaver. Woman in Black and White photo looking at reader.

October 14, 2021 7 min read

Two teenage girls in 1940s Washington, DC, become unlikely friends and unravel a dark mystery in The Savage Kind by John Copenhaver. Read More

“Let it bother me? Not so’s you’d notice.” Three Queer Women of Color Writers Talk Crime Fiction

John Copenhaver

author interviews

August 10, 2021 14 min read

As with the transgender crime writers who featured recently in a roundtable, queer women of color are strikingly underrepresented in...

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Edit Team

Features

June 15, 2020 1 min read

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A New Publishing Venture Reissues Gay and Lesbian Crime Fiction from 60s-90s

John Copenhaver

Interviews

August 24, 2019 3 min read

ReQueered Tales acquires the rights to notable gay and lesbian mystery and suspense novels from the 60s-90s Read More

‘Murder in the Closet: Essays in Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall’ Edited by Curtis Evans

Kevin Killian

Nonfiction Reviews

February 8, 2017 4 min read

Murder in the Closet allows like-minded scholars and laypersons to recognize and celebrate the queer underpinnings that have lain dormant, hidden in plain sight, in the works of a range of authors from Agatha Christie to Arthur Conan Doyle to Raymond Chandler, all the way through to Stonewall and a little beyond. Read More

GunnShots: Summer 2010

Drewey Wayne Gunn

Mystery

June 24, 2010 10 min read

Bullets . . . DATE WITH A SHEESHA By Anthony Bidulka Insomniac Press ISBN 9781897178904 Paperback, 262 p., $16.95 Was...

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

How The Dead Teach the Living: A Dying Reader’s Guide

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

Read This! Excerpt of The Savage Kind – John Copenhaver’s New Thriller

“Let it bother me? Not so’s you’d notice.” Three Queer Women of Color Writers Talk Crime Fiction

Join us! LGBTQ Crime Writers Throw a Benefit for Lambda Literary!

A New Publishing Venture Reissues Gay and Lesbian Crime Fiction from 60s-90s

‘Murder in the Closet: Essays in Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall’ Edited by Curtis Evans

GunnShots: Summer 2010

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta