Can anyone recommend smart, lesbian mystery/thriller/crime novels.

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I'm looking for smart, lesbian mystery/thriller/crime novels. Can anyone recommend anything? 🐝

Sylvia · Accepted Answer

sarah waters

Mona · Answer

The Paying Guests is really suspenseful. I think it's being made into a movie.

Linda · Answer

Really, anything by Sarah Waters...

Mona · Answer

I was wrong, no movie. But when I read it, it was so vivid it was like a movie in my head. I could see every inch of that house.

Shirley · Answer

Check out the Ava Lee series by Ian Hamilton. Ava is a Chinese Canadian lesbian forensic accountant and the books are a lot more fun than that sounds! She is a proper kick-ass heroine. The first one is The Water Rats of Wanchai.

Steven · Answer

Val McDermid?

Maudia · Answer

The Dime. By Kathleen Kent. Lesbian cop moves to Texas.

Lynda · Answer

The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter. It's all in verse, but once you get going, you'll forget it's written like that and enjoy it.

Penelope · Answer

Laurie King (author of Mary Russell series) has a lesbian detective called Kate Martinelli. Five books I think.

Margit · Answer

Sandra Scoppettone
• Lauren Laurano: lesbian private investigator in Manhattan, New York

Kate · Answer

If you don't mind scifi in that mix, Slow River by Nicola Griffith

Kat · Answer

Tons! Anne Holt writes "Scandinavian Noir", has been working in police, law and politics (was Minister of Justice of Norway), is lesbian and one of her series is about a lesbian detective.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/54400-hanne-wilhelmsen

Colleen · Answer

'Passing Strange' by Ellen Klages might fit the bill.

Allyson · Answer

http://lesbrary.com/2015/03/18/megan-casey-writes-about-the-top-20-lesbian-mystery-novels/

Can anyone recommend smart, lesbian mystery/thriller/crime novels.

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