Books, Gay & Lesbian, Mystery & Thrillers

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Gerri Hill
Partners
by Bella Books (Paperback)

Tori Hunter always worked solo, but in Samantha Kennedy she found a partner, in more ways than one. Casey O'Connor isn't thrilled to learn that she has a new partner on the way. It's been hard enough to transition from working with live victims to dead ones. Now Leslie Turner is going to slow down the process. Professional duty trumps personal issues as the detectives focus on their latest case, a killer whose choice of victim is solitary women. The investigation raises a lot of questions around the killer's means and opportunities. Leslie would be happy if the questions stopped there, but she's also wondering why she'd rather spend time with these women--specifically Casey--than with her fiance. Casey would also like to stick to business, but as the case intensifies she finds herself also watching Tori and Sam and wondering how they balance their public personas and private passions. Figuring it out is a pointless exercise, she tells herself, because that kind of lightning ...

Sarah Waters
Fingersmith
by Riverhead Trade (Paperback)

Nick Nolan
Strings Attached
by BookSurge Publishing (Paperback) (Release Date: 2006-04-19)

From BOOKS TO WATCH OUT FOR by RICHARD LABONTE, Volume 4 number 1 - Adolescence is a hazardous way of life for 17-year-old Jeremy Tyler; his father died in a mysterious accident when he was a child, and his mother has since descended into alcoholic hell and forced rehab; that's when he's sent from the Fresno slums of his childhood to the posh estate of his overbearing great aunt Katherine and her censorious husband - liberated from an economic prison, only to land in an emotional one - and is overwhelmed by the change. It's not easy for him to fit into the upper crust, particularly because he's trying to hide how much he's attracted to other boys. Jeremy's story of breaking free from the strands of dishonesty, deceit, and self-doubt has its parallels to the tale of Pinocchio, but Nolan's queer take is totally contemporary: think the TV series The OC - girls with mean cheekbones, well-built guys with snotty attitudes, and Jeremy in the role of a queer Ryan Atwood. He's a ...

Julia Spencer-Fleming
A Fountain Filled with Blood: A Mystery
(Hardcover)

In In the Bleak Midwinter, Julia Spencer-Fleming’s Malice Domestic–winning first mystery, Reverend Clare Fergusson was quickly introduced to a more eventful life than she had expected after moving to the small town of Millers Kill in upstate New York. But the Episcopal priest and former Army Air Force chopper pilot proved to her flockæ and to police chief Russ Van Alstyneæthat she could cope with the unexpected, even when it was as dire as murder. In this new adventure for the two ill-matched friends (who are gamely resisting something beyond friendship), evidence shows that a small town can hold just as much evil as the Wicked City.

Patricia Highsmith, W. W. Norton
The Price of Salt
by W. W. Norton & Company (Paperback)

Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's Lolita. "I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol's frenzied bid for freedom," writes Terry Castle in The New Republic about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. Soon to be a new film, The Price of Salt tells the riveting story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce. They fall in love and set out across the United States, pursued by a private investigator who eventually blackmails Carol into a choice between her daughter and her lover. With this reissue, The Price of Salt may finally be recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel.

E. M. Forster
Maurice
by Chivers Audio Books (Audio Cassette)

Written during 1913 and 1914, Maurice deals with the then unmentionable subject of homosexuality. More unusual, it concerns a relationship that ends happily.

Nick Nolan
Double Bound: a novel
by BookSurge Publishing (Paperback) (Release Date: 2008-10-22)

A lavish resort with Pentagon-worthy security is rising on a Brazilian island. Because of Katharine Tyler's investment there, her nephew Jeremy journeys with his lover Carlo Martinez, and former Marine Arthur Blauefee, to assess the resort's progress. But their visit is anything but safe-because when all seems well, they are swept into the clutches of a charming trickster, sensual temptation, kidnapping, murder, and an unexpected double-cross, with Aunt Katharine playing puppet master before getting tangled in her own strings. Although DOUBLE BOUND features the characters from the award-winning novel STRINGS ATTACHED, this is Arthur's story: his heartbreaking youth, his precarious years as a gay US Marine, then his treacherous journey to Brazil-where he is challenged to heroism, while agonizing between love and duty and his crippling personal demons. DOUBLE BOUND-when turning away from the truth only winds tighter the restraints of greed, of unspoken longing, and of lives unfulfilled.

Annie Proulx
Brokeback Mountain
by Simon & Schuster Audio (CD)

WINNER OF THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL GOLDEN LION AWARDAnnie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece.Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheep herder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer. Both men work hard, marry, have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.Brokeback Mountain was originally published in the New Yorker -- it won the National Magazine Award and was included in the O. Henry Stories 1998. In gorgeous and haunting prose Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives ...

Radclyffe
In Pursuit of Justice
by Renaissance Alliance Publishin (Paperback)

Rick R. Reed
Deadly Vision
by Quest (Paperback)

What If You Suddenly Became Psychic and Could Stop Two Cold-Blooded Killers? What if...No One Believed You? Small-town single mom Cass D'Angelo's life changes when a thunderstorm sweeps into her small Ohio River town. Cass must venture out in it to hunt for her son, seven-year-old Max. Lightning strikes a tree near her and a branch to the head knocks her unconscious. When Cass awakens a couple days later, she sees into the deepest secrets of those around her. Worse, some teenage girls have gone missing, and Cass sees their grisly fates. The discovery opens the door to a whole new life. The police are suspicious. The press wants to make her a celebrity. And the killers are desperate to know how she found their carefully concealed grave. Cass finds an ally in Dani Westwood, a local reporter. The two women begin to probe into the disappearances/murders and start to forge a romance. When Cass's little boy, Max, disappears, Cass must race against the clock to find him...before ...

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