La Farge is wonderfully skilled at revealing the textured psychology of obsession, while making us as readers complicit Read More
Ellen Hart knows how to write a damn good mystery, and Fever in the Dark is no exception. By way of a twisty mystery plot, Hart is reminding us that we should be keenly aware of the dehumanization in the world around us—and those responsible for it. Read More
Against all odds, Bobbi Logan, a statuesque transgender woman, has become one of Chicago’s most celebrated hair stylists and the owner of one of the city’s poshest salons. She is finally comfortable with who she is, widely admired in her community, about to enjoy the success she deserves.
Then her impossibly perfect life falls apart.
In the space of a few weeks, the Great Recession drags her business to the brink of failure, her beloved ex-wife needs help in facing a terrible tragedy, and a hateful police detective storms back into her life, determined to convict her of the five-year-old murder of John Strand—pillar of the community—and a sexual predator.
Blacklight: James’ A Kind of Justice depicts the compelling struggle of a shrewd transwoman accused of a vicious crime.
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Scott Alexander Hess’ The Butcher’s Sons is not so much a crime novel in the traditional sense, as a novel about the violent bonds of brotherhood Read More
Clinch is a vivid blood-soaked noir set in 1930s Stockholm. Read More
Blacklight: Porto’s ‘Sergio Y’ Renders a Compassionate but Incomplete Exploration of Gender Identity
Sergio Y explores the limitations of truly knowing another person Read More
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
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
Highsmith's best known novels are psychological thrillers in which she aligns us with a criminal protagonist, implicating us by blurring the thin line between desire and immoral behavior
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In his first Pancetta Brulée mystery, Casey McKittrick pays homage to the Golden Age mysteries of the ‘20s and ‘30s, but with twist Read More
