Queer Chaos: Mystery & Thriller Edition

Sometimes my entertainment takes on an accidental theme, and I’m left craving more. This was the recent case when I watched Netflix’s Big Mistakes (“Yeah, I’m okay. I ran over Max by accident.”) and read Samantha Allen’s, Puck.

One might be a crime series and the other a romance novel, but they each bring the queer chaos front and center. And now I want all the queer chaos—messy, sad, funny, unaware, self-aware, petty, mean, kind...all of it! I’ve got some mystery books to fit the theme and energy in different ways. There’s a hot mess PI series, a short story anthology, and a crew of drag queens stealing from the rich.

Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos, edited by Molly Llewellyn, Kristel Buckley *Chandler Bing voice* Could the title be more perfect?! In the tiers of crimes you can be convicted of, we’re more in the shallow end of the pool with petty crimes with this one. There’s an evil twin impersonating her sister for revenge, an adult who fraudulently enters contests for children, a lesbian couple who find an abandoned baby and adopt it, skipping the actual legal process of adoption, and more tales that range in mood from mischief with laughs to somber and literary.

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