Category: LGBTQ+ Sleuths

• Edgar Awards 2026: What Mystery Writers Selected as The Best

  

  This year’s winners include an unofficial “problem-solver” in Silicon Valley and a zealous journalist pursuing a fugitive who confessed to killing nine people as a teen. Links to winners, nominees.

  N.K. Mitchell

  April 30, 2026

  Amateur Sleuths, Award winners, Best of …, Contemporary Setting, Cozy Mystery, Historical Setting, Law Enforcement, LGBTQ+ Sleuths, New Release, Private Investigators, Senior Sleuths, Traditional Mystery, Uncategorized

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• Left Coast Crime Awards 2026: Some Familiar Winners

  

  Two 2026 winners are repeats from last year for their most recent novels featuring female protagonists. See the results of this year’s first big mystery awards for work in 2025.

  N.K. Mitchell

  April 21, 2026

  Award winners, Best of …, Contemporary Setting, Cozy Mystery, Law Enforcement, LGBTQ+ Sleuths, New Release, Private Investigators, Traditional Mystery

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• Chicago’s First Female PI Will Bicycle Right Into Your Heart

  

  An unconventional young PI fights sexism, homophobia, a surly younger brother and a brutal gang lord in turn-of-the-century Chicago in Rob Osler’s second quozy, or queer cozy, mystery series. It’s a winner.

  N.K. Mitchell

  May 17, 2025

  Cozy Mystery, Historical Setting, Latest posts, LGBTQ+ Sleuths, Private Investigators

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• Murder Crossed Her Mind: A Series Keeps Getting Better

  

  I feel no regrets about stopping a series if my interest lags. But this fourth book in the Pentecost & Parker mystery series, featuring a Nero Wolfe-like detective pair in 1940s New York, is every bit as good as the first, second and third.

  N.K. Mitchell

  April 6, 2024

  Historical Setting, LGBTQ+ Sleuths, Private Investigators, Traditional Mystery

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• Scorched Grace: A Poet Pens a Lyrical Debut

  

  Lush language, an atmospheric setting and the most original protagonist in many a mystery. There’s so much to love in this intense noir debut featuring a queer punk rock nun in the sweltering heat of New Orleans.

  N.K. Mitchell

  January 6, 2024

  Amateur Sleuths, Contemporary Setting, LGBTQ+ Sleuths, Noir Mystery

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• A Welcome Holiday Puzzle: The Christmas Jigsaw Murders

  

  Edie O’Sullivan may be an elderly English amateur sleuth but she’s no Miss Marple. The acid-tongued puzzler loathes most people but she’s going to need help to stop the body count from climbing.

  N.K. Mitchell

  December 3, 2023

  Amateur Sleuths, LGBTQ+ Sleuths, New Release, Senior Sleuths, Traditional Mystery