Dead On Your Feet (Stan Kraychik Mystery Book 3) by Grant Michaels – A cute guy is killed; an unappealing one makes advances; and Stan and Rafik have relationship tussles. Then, Stan and the killer meet up in a fabulous balconied penthouse one last time … and discovers life is more complex—and deadly—than art.
The Voxlightner Scandal (BJ Vinson Mystery Book 6) by Don Travis – No good deed goes unpunished, as investigator BJ Vinson is about to discover. Writer John Pierce Belhaven was murdered before he could reveal the name of another killer—one connected to the biggest scandal to rock Albuquerque in years.
November –
Loud Pipes Save Lives by Jennifer Giacalone – A tangled web ensnares an unlikely group of New Yorkers unaware that they are connected, from cops to criminals to corporate shills, in this thrilling tale…
Australia’s Son by Garrick Jones – A wrongly delivered letter sparks a chain of events that threaten the life of Edward Murray, “Australia’s Son”, the most renowned operatic baritone of his day. It is 1902, and Edward has returned to the Metropole Hotel after a performance of La Bohème at the Theatre Royal in Sydney, when the manager phones his apartment to tell him the police have arrived with bad news.
October –
ChoirMaster: A Mister Puss Mystery by Michael Craft – Local architect Marson Miles puts two and two together and figures out that Mother Hibbard’s husband is none other than his long-ago college friend, Curtis Hibbard, who is now a prominent New York attorney. And unless Marson is mistaken, Curtis and Joyce must have a marriage of convenience. But then, in a god-awful development, someone turns up dead.
Carved in Bone: A Henry Rios Novel (Henry Rios Mysteries Book 2) by Michael Nava – The first new Henry Rios novel in 20 years from six-time Lambda Literary award winner Michael Nava is a brilliantly plotted mystery that weaves together the gripping story of two gay men against the backdrop of 1980s San Francisco as the tsunami of AIDS bears down upon the city.
September –
Royal Street Reveillon (A Scotty Bradley Mystery) by Greg Herren – It’s Christmas time, but the last thing in the world Scotty Bradley wants under his tree is a murder case that strikes close to home. The premiere party for a new reality show sets the stage for a murder, and Scotty’s sort-of nephew is the prime suspect. As more and more cast members fall victim to a cold-blooded killer, Scotty and the boys must figure out what is real and what is scripted, and have to exhume some long-buried secrets in order to bring the killer to justice.
The Mystery of the Bones (Snow & Winter Book 4) by C.S. Poe – It’s been a full year since the mystery that brought antique shop owner and part-time amateur sleuth Sebastian Snow together with NYPD homicide detective Calvin Winter. The clock is ticking to recover a long-lost artifact linked to paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope and to capture a murderer. But it’s not Sebastian who may become the next target—it’s Calvin.
August –
Twisted at the Root: A Jane Lawless Mystery (Jane Lawless Mysteries Book 26) by Ellen Hart– Everyone thought Rashad May and Gideon Wise were happily married until Rashad was convicted of his husband’s murder. Four years later, Rashad’s brother contacts Ray Lawless – the original defense attorney on the case and PI Jane Lawless’ father – with potential evidence of a wrongful conviction.
Triangulation (Borealis Investigations Book 2) by Gregory Ashe – PI’s North and Shaw are asked by their secretary to help find her girlfriend’s missing boss, but when the body of Shep Collins, who runs a halfway house for LGBTQ kids turns up at the halfway house, the search for a missing person becomes the search for a murderer.
July –
Death Takes a Bow by David S. Peterson – Alan Keyes takes a break from his police duties to scratch his acting itch in a local stage production. But when the leading man is murdered during the opening night performance, his partner Detective Heath Barrington is thrust into the limelight to find the killer.
The Monuments Men Murders: The Art of Murder 4 by Josh Lanyon – Special Agent Jason West has attracted the attention of a dangerous stalker while working his latest case implicating one of the original Monuments Men in the theft and perhaps destruction of part of the world’s cultural heritage.
** Compiled by Jon Michaelsen, author of The Deadwood Murders (a Kendall Parker Mystery Book 2) releasing Dec 2019 – Homicide Detective Kendall Parker is recruited by the FBI to go undercover as bait to catch a savage killer targeting Atlanta’s gay community.
