Gay thriller books

books based on votes: Cut & Run by Madeleine Urban, Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville, Fair Game by Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows / A Dangerous Thing. Then there are those who have turned the classic queer villain in an anti-hero to celebrate, ready to fleece the intolerant and embrace the iconoclasts surrounding.

Russ Thomas, Firewatching Putnam. In Los Angeles, homophobia is an all-time high, and an ultra-conservative organization is ready to fan the flames of hatred with a ballot initiative to round up HIV positive Angelinos and put them in camps.

In U Up? A lot. Catie Disabato, U Up? Melville House. In the last few years, more LGBTQ+ authors are creating vivid, thrilling, and utterly haunting stories filled with incredible protagonists. But as Oliver makes a series of increasingly bad decisions while trying to hide the truth from Nathan, and Vernon peels back layer after layer to expose the power dynamics of their relationship, we realize that Oliver might be in more danger than even he realizes.

When the clone kills the husband, the scientist has to cover it up, or else the investigation might ruin her reputation and cause the community to question the efficacy of her research. Programmer Eliza Bright has just been promoted at her gaming company when she begins to encounter sexism from her coworkers.

After she reports the harassment, her attackers turn to their beloved gaming community for vengeance, assaulting her in-game character and doxing her in real life.

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Louise Luna was kidnapped at age 15, becoming a local hero after managing to save herself and several others from a terrible fate. We found 17 thriller books written by queer authors that feature LGBTQ+ protagonists to celebrate PRIDE—and to fill your TBR list all year long.

Hey, crime friends! Wendy Heard writes some of the coolest thrillers around, and her first YA novel continues the trend as we follow the destructive spiral of an intense romance between a mediocre photographer and an extreme performance artist.

These nine LGBTQ thrillers are the sort that are perfect for nights that you want to spend hours past bedtime glued to a book. Bath Haus begins with a bored night in—Oliver Park is happily dating trauma surgeon Nathan, so why is he swiping through dating apps?

Vernon, Bath Haus Doubleday. From obscure novels to modern bestsellers, these books offer a powerful and diverse representation of the queer experience. Innumerable plot twists ensue, leading to a perfect set-piece of an ending. He also makes a compelling case here for considering the femmes fatales of noir fiction as queer icons, reminding me of the final girls of horror in their potential for radical subversion of gender conventions.

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They’re compelling, twisty, and (best of all) gloriously queer. Starting in the s, however, queer crime writers and the small presses willing to publish them began to carve out their own space in genre fiction, and to reclaim the right to tell their own narratives.

This list features something for everyone, whether that be thrillers, chillers, mysteries, or historicals. Discover the top 10 must-read best gay thriller books! And of course, those concerned with the bleak facts of hateful violence can find crime fiction a cathartic space to confront the world in all its brutal realism.

A lovely, memorable novel about listening to the whispers of a wayward heart and claiming a place in the world. Happy Pride Month! Nora is pissed. Book lists, however, should be made from a place of hope, so with that in mind, I’ve culled a list of the most influential queer crime novels published in the past four years.

In The Echo Wife, a scientist renowned for her skills in cloning finds out that her husband has been cheating on her—with her clone.