This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A genuinely eerie YA desert thriller about two grieving sisters and a town that will not let go of the past, held back by a slow middle, a lead who … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A genuinely creepy small-town ghost mystery with a strong father-daughter spine and a sharp eye for a community’s bigotry, let down by an ending a lot of readers found rushed … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A dazzling alternate-1912 Cairo and a genuinely charismatic queer detective, held back by a mystery most readers solve well before Fatma does. Best for: Readers who want worldbuilding, swagger and … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: An inventive, award-shortlisted Holmes-and-Watson mystery set on Jupiter, with two former lovers as the detective pair and a world readers keep calling brilliant, held back by deliberately formal prose that … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The book that launched one of lesbian fiction’s longest-running couples, a Secret Service bodyguard romance with real sexual charge and a hero readers have loved for twenty-five years, held back by a heroine many … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A tight Denver serial-killer procedural with a genuinely hot cop-and-therapist romance at its centre, let down by head-hopping POV and a 2006 closet politics that readers now find hard to sit through. Best for: … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A foundational lesbian cop romance with a magnetic loner detective, real partner chemistry and 4/5 heat, held back by 2005-era transphobic language and a sexual-assault storyline that many readers feel the book rushes past. … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A properly British village murder mystery with a warm lead detective and a coastline you can almost smell, held back by a case many readers solve early and a romance that stays on a … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A cold, elegant assassin thriller with some of the best-praised prose in lesfic and a genuinely unsettling lead, held back by a romance built on a power imbalance that not … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A sharp, funny literary mystery about a dating-app detective agency, with a narrator critics adored and a Chinese American family that readers love, undercut by a mystery that loses its … Read more