A Selected List of New Gay Mystery Titles for 2019
New Gay Mysteries Jan – June, 2019:
January –
Abaddon’s Locusts (BJ Vinson Mystery Book 5) by Don Travis – Confidential Investigator, B. J. Vinson, learns his young friend, Jazz Penrod, has disappeared and has not been heard from in a month.
Impressions: (Carpenter/Harding Series Book 8) by Barbara Winkes – Jordan and Derek are investigating a double homicide that confronts them with the ugly realities of human trafficking.
February –
Shadow Puppet: A Dan Sharp Mystery by Jeffrey Round – A serial killer is preying on Toronto’s Gay Village and police seem reluctant to take the case seriously. PI Dan Sharp starts investigating after three closeted gay Muslim men disappear.
Drama Castle: A Nicky and Noah Mystery (Nicky and Noah Mysteries Book 7) by Joe Cosentino – Theatre professor Nicky, is directing a historical film at a castle in Scotland, co-starring his spouse, theatre professor Noah Oliver, and their son Taavi, when men in kilts start disappearing.
March –
A Body in a Bathhouse (A Mitch O’Reilly Mystery) by Brad Shreve – PI Mitch O’Reilly takes on a case looking into the shocking murder of a beloved comedy scriptwriter, whose body is discovered in a bathhouse.
Boystown 12: Broken Cord (Boystown Mysteries) by Marshall Thornton – In the latest installment of the Lambda Award-winning Boystown Mysteries, it’s summer 1985. PI Nick Nowack investigates the murder of a woman married to a much older, wealthy man. It appears that only her husband could have killed her, but Nick isn’t so sure.
April –
Fresh Kill (The Jimmy McSwain Files Book 6) by Adam Carpenter – PI Jimmy McSwain passes on a client Philip Connelly request to find proof of his wife is cheating, A week later, Philip is dead, an apparent suicide, but his wife—a self-admitted adulteress—is convinced her husband was murdered
Killer Reunion (Donald Strachey Mystery Book 16) by Richard Stevenson – What could possibly go wrong at a family reunion in the era of American tribal politics? PI Donald Strachey attends his husband’s family reunion in a New England country inn, and the most politically outspoken relative becomes the victim of a bizarre poisoning.
May –
Orientation (Borealis Investigations Book 1) by Gregory Ashe – PIs Shaw and North accept a case to help foil a blackmail scheme and are caught in a web that touches politicians, the local LGBT community, and the city’s police department.
Cold Steele: A Hard-Boiled Police Procedural (The Jasmine Steele Mystery Series Book 4) by Kimberly Amato – In this fourth installment Detective Jasmine Steele, a three-year-old cold case comes back hot when New York City’s “Carnation Killer” returns.
June –
Obsessed to Death (a Jamie Brody Mystery) by Meg Perry – When academic librarian Jamie Brodie’s dog sniffs out a corpse at a campsite on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, Jamie assumes it’s a natural death. Not so fast, Jamie—the dead man is freelance investigative reporter Danny Norman, who was on the trail of a major story.
A Body To Dye For (Stan Kraychik Book 1) by Grant Michaels – Re-release of book one in a classic gay mystery series – Boston Hairdresser Stan Kraychik is called to a client’s home asking for help, but when Stan arrives to finds dead body, police suspect he’s the killer!
Compiled by Jon Michaelsen, Pretty Boy Dead and forthcoming: The Deadwood Murders
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