Created by Michael Nava (1954 --) HENRY RIOS's a gay, Hispanic, heart-on-his-sleeve criminal defense lawyer and recovering alcoholic (whew!) from San Francisco. He's got quite a rep as a ''rescuer,'' a ''fixer of broken lives'' who's willing to do things his way. But this ain't no Pollyanna feelgood series. Here there be darkness... Henry went … Continue reading Henry Rios
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Clyde Smith
Created by Garrick Jones "... to be brutally honest, I couldn't be fucked playing the game." -- Clyde on why he left the Sydney police department In The Cricketer's Arms (2019), the first in a proposed series by Garrick Jones, it's 1956 Sydney, Australia where we meet CLYDE SMITH, an ex-cop and current freelance restaurant reviewer (having … Continue reading Clyde Smith
Dan Sharp
Created by Jeffrey Round When we first meet him in Lake on the Mountain (2013), winner of the 2013 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery, DAN SHARP is a single dad and missing persons investigator in Toronto who offers a few twists. Not only is he gay, but more amazingly, perhaps, his child is a boy! In … Continue reading Dan Sharp
Jimmy McSwain
Created by Adam Carpenter Pushing thirty when we first meet him, in Hidden Identity (2014), Hell's Kitchen private investigator JIMMY McSWAIN is still haunted by the unsolved murder of his father, NYPD officer Joseph McSwain -- a shooting he witnessed when he was fourteen. Fourteen years later, he's still working the case... With or without the help … Continue reading Jimmy McSwain
Nick Williams & Carter Jones
Created by Frank W. Butterfield Ever since Hammett dropped Nick and Nora on an unsuspecting world, we've had dozens, if not hundreds, of couples trying to fill their well-to-do detecting shoes. But Frank W. Butterfield's private investigator NICK WILLIAMS, and his "husband" CARTER JONES , a firefighter originally from Georgia, are horses of a different colour, in a … Continue reading Nick Williams & Carter Jones
Slater Ibáñez
Created by George Bixley SLATER IBÁÑEZ is an ill-tempered, violence-prone insurance investigator has two problems: alcohol and keeping it zipped. He prowls the streets of LA, looking for insurance fraud and sex, "keeping his balance with the jobs that his employer, Della, throws his way, and the back-channel support he gets from his idiot cop … Continue reading Slater Ibáñez
North & Shaw (Borealis Investigations)
Created by Gregory Ashe St. Louis private investigators NORTH McKINNEY and KINGSLEY SHAW WILDER ALDRICH, commonly referred to by readers as simply "North and Shaw," are best friends, who run their own small their agency, Borealis Investigations. They're also both gay, but so far, they're just best friends, in this proposed trilogy from Gregory Ashe, which … Continue reading North & Shaw (Borealis Investigations)
Dave Brandstetter
Created by Joseph Hansen Pseudonyms include Rose Brock & James Colton) (1923-2004) "My joke was to take the true hard-boiled character in an American fiction tradition and make him homosexual. He was going to be a nice man, a good man, and he was going to do his job well.” -- Joseph Hansen "But with … Continue reading Dave Brandstetter
Neil Patrick Rafferty
Created by Josh Lanyon Pseudonym of D.L. Browne "It was always a dame, wasn't it?" That's the opening line in This Rough Magic (2011), a classic bit that wouldn't have been out of place in a Black Mask story 75 years earlier, but of course in Josh Lanyon's books, it's rarely a dame that the … Continue reading Neil Patrick Rafferty
Rory Byrne
Created by C.S. Poe "Dress like a PA. That was an easy enough instruction—if I knew what the hell a PA was." Prickly, workaholic Big Apple private eye RORY BYRNE of Dupin Private Investigations may not be the most likable guy in town, but he's gained a solid rep over the last twenty years as someone the New York's … Continue reading Rory Byrne