Minotaur Books Archives

January 25, 2018 2 min read

Kristen Lepionka's new mystery launches a series featuring Roxane Weary, a bisexual private investigator whose complexities are engaging, realistic, and deeply human Read More

Blacklight: In Hart’s ‘Fever in the Dark’ a Viral Video Uncovers Dark Family Secrets

John Copenhaver

Reviews

May 29, 2017 2 min read

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

‘Taken By The Wind’ by Ellen Hart

Rita Salner

Mystery Reviews

September 17, 2013 2 min read

Ellen Hart is a Minnesota based author who has written twenty previous mysteries featuring Jane Lawless and her best friend,...

‘Rest for the Wicked: A Jane Lawless Mystery’ by Ellen Hart

Lori L. Lake

Mystery Reviews

December 20, 2012 2 min read

When Jane Lawless, newly minted private eye, receives a voicemail message from her PI partner’s nephew, she has no idea...

‘The Cruel Ever After’ by Ellen Hart

Victoria Brownworth

Mystery Reviews

April 12, 2011 3 min read

Lambda Literary Award Finalist Ellen Hart is reliable. That may sound like damning with faint praise, coming from a critic,...

Lesbian Mystery Roundup: May 2010

Victoria Brownworth

Mystery

June 2, 2010 1 min read

With summer just around the corner, we need beach reading. Since I was a child, beach reading has meant mysteries....

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

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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

Blacklight: Series Debut ‘The Last Place You Look’ Promises a Complex, No-Nonsense Bisexual Heroine

Blacklight: In Hart’s ‘Fever in the Dark’ a Viral Video Uncovers Dark Family Secrets

‘Taken By The Wind’ by Ellen Hart

‘Rest for the Wicked: A Jane Lawless Mystery’ by Ellen Hart

‘The Cruel Ever After’ by Ellen Hart

Lesbian Mystery Roundup: May 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