Gay psychological thriller books
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
The Home
- By: Judith Sonnet
- Narrated by: Lila Kerry
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early '60s, in a seemingly more "innocent" time, a group of teenagers were lured into a supposedly haunted residence. The place on Sycamore Lane has a morbid history, but that's just hearsay and rumor, isn't it?
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17 LGBTQ+ Thrillers To Find Your Pulse Racing This Pride (And Beyond)
The debut novel from LGBTQ+ creator William Friend, Let Him In is truly chilling. In it, we encounter Alfie and his twin daughters, who are currently suffering the sudden decrease of their mother, Pippa, who died nine months ago.
Alfie isn't immediately concerned about his girls' modern imaginary friend, as he assumes it's their coping mechanism; but everything begins to change when they wake him up one night claiming “Daddy, there's a man in our room.”
He initially assumes its a nightmare, but the girls begin setting a place for him at the table, whispering to him, saying he's going to take them away…
Alfie asks Pippa's sister, Julia, a psychiatrist, for aid. But then Alfie himself starts seeing visions of someone watching him at night, and he begins to question the insidious behaviors his girls are exhibiting.
Whoever this “friend” is, he doesn't seem to want to leave; and Alfie will have to confront his own shameful secrets, Hart House's black past, and even the bounds of reality to save them all.
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Available at TCCL as a book; it is also available through hoopla as an ebook. This is the first book in the Campbell & Strauss series. MC rep: lesbian female x lesbian female LI
Available at TCCL as a novel and ebook. This is the second book in the A Shay O'Hanlon Caper series. MC rep: lesbian female x lesbian female LI
Available at TCCL as an ebook. This is the first book in the Sidewinder series. MC rep: demisexual biromantic male x bisexual male LI
Available at TCCL as an ebook. This is the second book in the Sidewinder series. MC rep: bisexual male x demisexual biromantic male LI
Available at TCCL as an ebook. This is the third publication in the Sidewinder series. MC rep: bisexual male x demisexual biromantic male LI
Available at TCCL as a publication. This is the first book in the Luce Hansen series. MC rep: lesbian female x wlw female LI
Available at TCCL as a book and ebook. This is the third publication in the Queers of La Vista series. MC rep: Mexican/Italian straight gender diverse male x female homosexual female LI who then IDs as queer after falling
In the past few years, books written by and about gay characters have become more noticeable to the general reading widespread. Gradually, straight, cisgender readers are discovering the pleasure of reading books by authors whose identities are different from their hold. This is true in the mystery and thriller reading planet as well.
In my new novel, Hall of Mirrors, a mystery set in Washington, D.C., about two gay writers who co-author hard-boiled detective fiction under the macho moniker Ray Kane, I explore writing from the closet, the complexity of inventing a false persona to sell books, which in the s was often necessary to find broad appeal to consumers, not to mention to avoid being discriminated against and persecuted. Thankfully, today, things have changed (for the most part), and readers of all types are reaching for queer books precisely because they want to read LGBTQIA+ characters (assuming a book ban doesn’t block their ability to access these books).
Of course, prejudice still exists, and the grooves of unconscious bias take time to change; the specious idea th