Murder at the Hotel Orient by Alessandra Ranelli
A Murder Most Camp by Nicolas DiDomizio
Don’t Cross Mo Ellery by Birdie Horne
All We Hide by Robyn Gigl
The Disaster Gay Detective Agency by Lev AC Rosen
Bonus: These are all either standalones or series openers, but for two series continuations, continue Tom Ryan’s Treasure Hunters Club series with Return to Breakneck Island, and Holly Stars’ Misty Divine series with Missing in SoHo
Today on the site, we’re welcoming Travis Warman, author of Serial Husbands, to discuss writing moral complexity in queer characters, particularly as it relates to this thriller set prior to Obergefell. Before we get to the post, here’s the story:
Michael Denton and Ryan Hayes are the perfect neighbors. They are also judge, jury, and executioner. The two devoted husbands have spent years secretly hunting the predators who walk free from courtrooms, logging every kill in a heavily encrypted dark web archive called The Ledger.
When a sixteen-year-old girl goes missing in their town, a local detective starts working the timeline, finding gaps in the story the town believes. As the investigation gets closer to home, Michael and Ryan find their system unraveling, forcing them to protect what they have built at all costs.
Serial Husbands is a character-driven psychological thriller featuring a dark, LGBTQ-centered narrative. It blends suburban realism with high-stakes suspense, exploring themes of vigilantism, the cost of secrecy, and dual identities.
Buy it: Amazon
And now, here’s the post!
For Part I, click here.
I Think They Love You and Last First Kiss by Julian Winters
American Love Story by Adriana Herrera
I’m So (Not) Over You by Kosoko Jackson
More to Love by Georgina Kiersten
One and Done and Love is a Contact Sport by Frederick Smith
It’s Disability Pride Month, and we’re celebrating with books that have queer disabled main characters! For more books with queer disabled MCs, or to look for specific conditions, check out our Disability/Neurodivergence page, linked here, as well as past years’ posts.
If you have a visual disability and are looking for more accessible titles, you can find lists on the site of books available in Large Print or Braille under those hyperlinked words.
Note: For more Autism rep, check out this Autism Acceptance Month post. For more Cerebral Palsy rep, check out this World Cerebral Palsy Day post.
A middle-grade short story anthology featuring disabled kids, written by disabled writers, and edited by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp.
Imagine the boundless experiences of disabled kids: A Deaf Southerner who solves local mysteries. A young diabetic plant mage encountering magical mishaps. A girl with epilepsy discovering a hidden world in her grandmother’s garden. A chronically fatigued gamer saving the day―and their team―during an epic VR space race.
From juvenile arthritis to asthma and from wheelchairs to neurodiversity, Boundless: 17 Stories Starring Disabled Kids writes disability back into the mainstream narrative of the commercial genres we love, with an inclusive and intersectional lens.
