Bold Strokes Books has discounted the price of many of its gay and lesbian mystery titles to just 99 cents and MystereBooks is pleased to feature three of these titles by authors familiar to us. Use this link to see a list of all mystery, suspense and thriller titles from Bold Strokes Books.
All three of our featured authors are previous winners of a Lambda Literary Award, which recognizes excellence in LGBT literature. The winners of this year's awards will be announced this coming Monday, June 3rd, 2013 in New York City.
The ebook format of the titles shown below was priced at $0.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (06/01/2013 at 5:00 PM ET). Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.
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Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson
A Benjamin Justice Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Winner of the 1997 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery
When a pretty-boy cokehead is murdered outside a gay bar in a working class district of Los Angeles, and a young Latino quickly confesses to the crime, it appears the case is closed. Benjamin Justice, a disgraced former reporter with the Los Angeles Times, is lured out of his alcoholic seclusion to look more deeply into the murder. But why would a teenager confess to a brutal gang initiation killing he didn't commit? Only Benjamin Justice understands, but with his credibility shattered, no one's listening.
As Justice threads his way through a colorful gallery of suspects, he's thrust back into the world of gay bars and haunting memories that he's tried to put behind him since the death of his lover from AIDS six years earlier, an event that precipitated the Pulitzer scandal that destroyed his promising career.
With Justice teetering on an emotional brink, his reluctant new partner, Los Angeles Sun reporter Alexandra Templeton, must solve the riddle of Justice's own dark past to save him. Together, with her deadline looming, they confront the real killer, using every bit of journalistic skill they can muster to pin that person to the crime.
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Death by the Riverside by J. M. Redmann
A Micky Knight Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Among the moss-covered trees and wrought-iron balustrades of southern Louisiana, Detective Michele Knight — Micky to her friends — takes on the seemingly simple job of shooting a few photos for a client, but the going gets rough as Micky finds herself slugging through thugs and slogging through swamps in an attempt to expose a dangerous drug ring.
The trail leads to the Hundred Oaks Plantation, a transvestite named Eddie, a beautiful doctor named Cordelia, and memories Micky thought she had buried twenty years ago.
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Vieux Carré Voodoo by Greg Herren
A Scotty Bradley Mystery (4th in series)
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Winner of the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery
When an old family friend apparently commits suicide from his French Quarter balcony, Scotty's life accelerates from boring to exciting again in a nanosecond. Why would anyone want the old man dead, and what were they looking for in his ransacked apartment?
It's up to Scotty, Frank, his crazy family, and friends to get to the bottom of this bizarre mystery — and when an old, all-too-familiar face turns up, it's not just Scotty's life that's in danger, but his heart.
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