Do you have a preference of Lesbian or Gay fiction? Karen Kallmaker is a wonderful author in the lesbian category.

Val McDermid (or sometime VL Mcdermid) is a Scottish author who has written a vast number of murder mystery/thrillers. She is herself lesbian and one of her serial characters is a lesbian PI called Lindsay Gordon:

Lindsay Gordon series:
Report for Murder (1987)
Common Murder (1989)
Final Edition (1991) US Titles: Open and Shut, Deadline for Murder
Union Jack (1993), US Title: Conferences are Murder
Booked for Murder (1996)
Hostage to Murder (2003)

Her other books often have LGBT characters too and they are amazingly good reads. Some have been developed into TV series, notably Wire In The Blood based on the first three Tony Hill/Carol Jordan books and then developed a life of their own while Val continued writing new books with these characters that were not adapted for TV.

Another of my favourite Tartan Noir authors Stuart MacBride has also a recurring lesbian character DI Roberta Steel. Stuart's books are not for the faint-hearted.


I've read quite a bit of LGBT fiction over the years and some books start well, but then disappoint at the end.

Joe Keenan is a another great author and is also the producer of TV hit Desperate Housewives. His three books Blue Heaven, Putting On The Ritz and My Lucky Star feature various gay and lesbian characters in a sort of art-deco, post-modern world where you're never sure if the 1930s or the 1980s. Have yet to read the last one but the first two had me in stitches with their farcical capers.

I love to read. Normal I read computer books..kidding.. Not all the time. Most of the time I read historical books like bios. I think I need a change. I am going to look for some of these to read. Thanks for the postings

Jeanne

I love to read. Normal I read computer books..kidding.. Not all the time. Most of the time I read historical books like bios. I think I need a change. I am going to look for some of these to read. Thanks for the postings

Jeanne

I've just recently, finally, read the old classic 'The Well of Loneliness' by Radclyffe Hall. I found it really interesting for lots of reasons not least being the historical elements. Also recently enjoyed 'The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas' by Gertrude Stein. I'm now keen to read 'The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book'.

Great thread thanks to the OP.

I've managed to source a bunch of the recommendations here as eBooks. Many sleepless nights coming up. You know what they say... So many books, so little bed-time

Also, I was reminded of 'The Monkey's Mask' by Dorothy Porter. The story is a crime thriller written in verse and became an Australian classic. Well worth reading. It also was made into a movie starring (among a bunch of Australians) Kelly McGillis.

In case you don't know, Kelly - yes the one from Top Gun - recently came out, so a movie well worth watching also.

i haven't read any new lesbian fiction in a long time. i go back to reading my staples "dare, truth or promise" and "some girls." fingersmith is awesome for anyone who hasn't read it yet.

"choices" in the beginning was pretty good, too. i don't how i feel about the rest of the book though, lol.

Thanks for the Elite Op recommendation. I'm on the 3rd book very quick reads.

Laurie R. King - Kate Martinelli series. The main character is an LA cop. Really enjoyed that series.

In S.M Stirlings Island in the sea of Time trilogy (sci-fi) two of the main characters are gay.
And in his Dies the fire Books several of the secondary characters are gay as well.

These are all science fiction books.

Not fiction, but reads like it: Jeanette Winterson just came out with a new memoir, "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?"

Val McDermid (or sometime VL Mcdermid) is a Scottish author who has written a vast number of murder mystery/thrillers. She is herself lesbian and one of her serial characters is a lesbian PI called Lindsay Gordon:

My city's library only had Kate Brannigan books, not Lindsay Gordon. I'm enjoying those even without a lesbian PI!

I did run across a sentence that I can't make heads or tails of, though. Two peoples separated by a common language.

It's a myth about it always raining in Manchester--we only make it up to irritate all those patronizing *kitten* in the South with their hose-pipe bans.

I guessing a hose-pipe ban is a legal restriction on when you can water the garden during a drought. Am I close?

Thanks! It's from Crack Down: A Kate Brannigan Mystery, (c) 1994 by Val McDermid. The Kindle edition I'm reading was apparently published in 2006 by "Bloody Brits Press," an imprint of Bywater Books, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

I searched the text and found color, jail, realize, customize, and sympathize. They even Americanized the spelling of something as British as "Honors List"!

I loved The Persian Boy back in the day!

Thanks! It's from Crack Down: A Kate Brannigan Mystery, (c) 1994 by Val McDermid. The Kindle edition I'm reading was apparently published in 2006 by "Bloody Brits Press," an imprint of Bywater Books, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

I searched the text and found color, jail, realize, customize, and sympathize. They even Americanized the spelling of something as British as "Honors List"!

How could they do this to poor Val :sad:

I've never read any of Val's Kate Brannigan books. The hubster has, but he's not a big fan of those, preferring the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan and stand-alones as they seem to be more gruesome :laugh: