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Read with PRIDE: Mystery and thriller, from Multcolib

These suspenseful stories feature LGBTQIA+ characters.

Multnomah County Library

23 items

  • A chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, Sister Holiday launches her own investigation when Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, pitting her against colleagues, students and fellow Sisters.
    Book, 2023New York : Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint, 2023. — FICTION DOUAIHY 2023
  • A cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — FICTION OLDER 2023
  • A queer, modern Arthurian tale set in contemporary Vancouver. An autistic college student who is the latest reincarnation of Sir Gawain is drawn deeper and deeper into the family secrets and round table feuds
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  • When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in rural Australia, the community is thrown into a maelstrom of suspicion and grief. As Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels arrives in town and begins her investigation, Esther’s…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2022. — MYSTERY SCRIVENOR 2022
  • While investigating the mysterious death of matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of a famous soap empire, Andy Mills is seduced by the safety and freedom found in Lavender House, where a queer family lives honestly and openly, until he becomes a pawn in…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : A Forge Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates, 2022. — MYSTERY ROSEN 2022
  • Heritage Camp is a summer retreat for international adoptees can explore their identities and bond over shared experiences. When camp counselor Paul goes into fatal anaphylactic shock one evening, everyone believes it to be a tragic accident. But…
    Book, 2021Portland, Oregon : Ooligan Press, [2021] — MYSTERY WILDE 2021
  • Oliver shouldn't be visiting a gay bathhouse, but he just wants one last jolt from his old, transgressive life, one new secret to remind him of the good life he has created with Nathan. What he finds is a nightmare encounter and a searing moment of…
    Book, 2021New York : Doubleday, [2021] — FICTION VERNON 2021
  • When a trans woman pleads guilty to killing her millionaire businessman father, transgender attorney Erin McCabe, determined to clear her name when the facts don’t add up, becomes trapped in a web of human exploitation, unchecked greed and murder…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2022. — FICTION GIGL 2022
  • A detective novel set in 1945, about two female private investigators trying to solve the locked-room murder of a society widow.
    Book, 2020New York : Doubleday, [2020] — MYSTERY SPOTSWOOD 2020
  • A queer coming-of-age novel about a girlhood interrupted by an eating disorder, only to twist into a genre-bending excavation of gender, identity, and literary mystery.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Feminist Press, 2021. — FICTION MILKS 2021
  • A group of right-wing Christians is campaigning to put people with HIV into quarantine camps. Rios, now living in LA, agrees to be counsel for a group of young activists who call themselves QUEER [Queers United to End Erasure and Repression]. QUEER…
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  • Two lonely teenage girls in 1940s Washington, DC, discover they have a penchant for solving crimes—and an even greater desire to commit them.
    Book, 2021New York : Pegasus Crime, 2021. — MYSTERY COPENHAVE 2021
  • Follows the release of a best-selling book about an early 20th-century New England boarding school where gender-diverse students died under suspicious circumstances.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — FICTION DANFORTH 2020
  • A new historical mystery series set during the Harlem renaissance featuring speakeasies and black queer characters.
    Book, 2021New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2021. — MYSTERY AFIA 2021
  • A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too close to home.
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2022. — MYSTERY AFIA 2022
  • Fadeout

    A Dave Brandstetter Mystery

    Hansen, Joseph
    A reissue of the first volume in the groundbreaking hardboiled series, featuring gay sleuth Dave Brandstetter, first published in 1970.
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  • A DACA/Dreamer is missing, so his recent crush teams up with his two lesbian besties and his dog to find him.
    Book, 2022New York : Crooked Lane, 2022. — MYSTERY OSLER 2022
  • A gay private eye locked room mystery set in 1946 that looks to be the start of a new series.
    Book, 2022Valley Falls, NY : Bold Strokes Books, 2022. — MYSTERY PEDERSON 2022
  • A Chinese-American lesbian starts a new job doing background checks into online daters and falls into a murder mystery.
    Book, 2022New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022. — MYSTERY PEK 2022
  • Former go-go dancer turned sleuth Scott Bradley is part of a threesome solving crimes in New Orleans.
    Book, 2019Valley Falls, NY : Bold Strokes Books, Inc., [2019] — MYSTERY HERREN 2019