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Ep:053 Born in the early 70s, Dieter grew up in a little village in Austria. At the age of 18, he moved to Vienna to get his master’s degree in Political Sciences, French, and Spanish. Today, he is living in Paris, France, with his boyfriend and works as a graphic designer. In his spare time, he writes, reads, cooks fancy recipes, takes photos, and travels. He is more a hoodie/jeans/sneakers kind of guy than a suit-and-tie chap. So far, he has published two short-story collections, three poetry collections, as well as two murder mystery novels in French, German, and English, the first of which has won the French Gay Crime Fiction Award 2019. You can also find him on Rainbow Book Reviews, where he writes book reviews under the pseudonym of ParisDude. Last but not least, together with his boyfriend he runs the website Livres Gay (in French), where they review and discuss gay novels.

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Dieter's novel Til Death Do Us Part
Dieter's novel The Stuffed Coffin
Website: Deitermoitzi.com

The Yellow Canary by Steve Neil Johnson
Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson

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Ep:052 Lev Raphael has wanted to be an author since he was in second grade, and he's not only achieved his dream, he's published twenty-six books in genres from memoir to mystery to erotic vampire tale; had his work translated into fifteen languages; seen one sell close to 300,000 copies. He also appeared in two documentaries.

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Raphael's The Death of a Constant Lover
Author website: http://www.levraphael.com
Teaching/editing/mentoring website: http://www.writewithoutborders.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/levraphael

Meredith Doench's Dead Eye

Felice Picano's The Book of Lies
Lauren Wright's The Always Anonymous Beast

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Ep:051 Greg Herren is an American writer and editor, who publishes work in a variety of genres, including mystery novels, young adult literature and erotica. He publishes work both as Greg Herren and under the pseudonym Todd Gregory. His novel Murder in the Rue Chartres won a Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Mystery category at the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards, and his anthology Love, Bourbon Street: Reflections of New Orleans, co-edited with Paul J. Willis, won in the anthologies category at the 2007 Lambda Literary Awards. He has also won several other awards, including an Anthony, and been nominated for another Anthony, a Macavity, and a Shirley Jackson Award, among many others. He is currently the Executive Vice President of Mystery Writers of America.

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Greg via Bold Stroke Books
Greg's Blog: Queer and Loathing in America
Greg's Facebook Page
Greg's Twitter: @scottynola

James Woodall's Website: picadillydetectives.com

Grant Michael's Time to Check Out

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Ep:050 After a thirty year career as a professional opera singer, performing as a soloist in opera houses and in concert halls all over the world, I took up a position as lecturer in music in Australia in 1999, at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, which is now part of CQUniversity.

Brought up in Australia, between the bush and the beaches of the Eastern suburbs, I retired in 2015 and now live in the tropics, writing, gardening, and finally finding time to enjoy life and to re-establish a connection with who I am after a very busy career on the stage and as an academic.

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Link to Wheelchair by Garrick Jones
Garrick Jones' Blog

The Butcher's Son by Dorien Grey
Time to Check Out by Grant Michaels
Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson

A huge thank you to Graeme Cheater for his hard work on creating a listing of books from all Gay Mystery Podcast episodes. You can visit his site at Judge a Book by its Gay Cover

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Ep:049 By the age of 30, Christopher Rice had published four New York Times bestselling thrillers, received a Lambda Literary Award and been declared one of People Magazine’s Sexiest Men Alive. His two novels of dark supernatural suspense, THE HEAVENS RISE and THE VINES, were both finalists for the Bram Stoker Award. He recently entered the erotic romance genre with three works in all new series called The Desire Exchange. They include THE FLAME, THE SURRENDER GATE and KISS THE FLAME. His debut novel, A DENSITY OF SOULS, was published when the author was just 22 years old. A controversial and overnight bestseller, it was greeted with a landslide of media attention, much of it devoted to the fact that Christopher is the son of famed vampire chronicler, Anne Rice. Together with his best friend, New York Times bestselling novelist Eric Shaw Quinn, Christopher launched his own Internet radio show. THE DINNER PARTY SHOW WITH CHRISTOPHER RICE & ERIC SHAW QUINN.

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Website for The Dinner Party Show

Christopher Rice's Website

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Ep:048 Born to Dutch parents and raised in Colombia and England, Oilvier Bosman is a rootless wanderer with itchy feet. He’s spent the last few years living and working in The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sudan and Bulgaria, and has every confidence he will now finally be able to settle down among the olive groves of Andalucia.

He’s an avid reader and film fan (in fact, his study is overflowing with his various dvd collections!)

Olivier did an MA in creative writing for film and television at the University of Sheffield.  After a failed attempt at making a career as a screenwriter, he turned to the theater and wrote and produced a play called ´Death Takes a Lover´ (which has since been turned into the first D.S.Billings Victorian Mystery). The play was performed on the London Fringe to great critical acclaim.

He currently lives in Spain where he makes ends meet by teaching English.

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Olivier Bosman's Website

The Mystery of the Garish Garage by Jeffrey Sacks

Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson

Brad's Website: https://bradshreve.com/

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Ep:047 Often called the LGBTQ’s “answer to Agatha Christie,”  Ellen Hart is the author of thirty-five crime novels in two different series. She is a six-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery, a four-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Best Popular Fiction, a three-time winner of the Golden Crown Literary Award, a recipient of the Alice B Medal, and was made a laureate of  the Saint at the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans in 2005. In 2010, Ellen received the GCLS Trailblazer Award for lifetime achievement in the field of lesbian literature. In 2017, she became the first  openly LGBTQ author to be named a Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America, an award that represents the pinnacle of achievement in mystery writing, one that was established to acknowledge important contributions to the genre as well as for a body of work that is both significant and of consistent high quality.  (Other recipients have included Agatha Christie, Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, Alfred Hitchcock, Graham Greene, Walter Mosley, Ellery Queen, Evelyn Waugh, Elmore Leonard, and Sue Grafton.)

Since the publication of her first work in 1989, Ellen has spoken at conventions, conferences, libraries, bookstores, colleges, and writer’s workshops all over the country. She taught creative writing for sixteen years through the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, the largest independent (not associated with a college or university) writing community in the nation.  Her most recent mystery, In A Midnight Wood, was published in September of 2020.  Ellen lives in Minnesota with her partner of 42 years.

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Ellen Hart's Website
Macmillan Website for In A Midnight Wood
Ellen's Facebook Page

Fadeout by Joseph Hanson

Murder and Mayhem by Matt Lubbers-Moore

Brad's Website: https://bradshreve.com/

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Ep:046 David was born and raised in the Boston area, though he was fortunate to live in San Diego in the 3rd and 4th grades, where he was bullied into losing his "horrible" accent. His family moved a lot, but he considers his hometown to be Weston, MA, even though he was only there for 5 years of school.

He's published nine books, including seven featuring New Orleans-based detectives Michel Doucette and Alexandra "Sassy" Jones. The most recent, DEJA VIEUX, was published in May. He's a 5-time Lammy nominee, and won the 2010 Lammy for Gay Mystery for his second book, ECHOES.

He and his husband Brian moved to Kennebunk, ME, four years ago. His primary occupation is graphic design and branding strategy. In his spare time, he gardens, reads, watches the various permutations of LAW & ORDER, and practices guitar

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Deja Vieux by David Lennon

Soldier Down by Neil Plakcy

Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson

Brad's Website: https://bradshreve.com/

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Ep:045 Born 1938 Lock Haven, PA, Richard Stevenson graduated Lock Haven State College, did graduate work in American lit at Penn State.  He joined the Peace Corps and fled grad school to teach English in Ethiopia 1962-64---He says it's the best thing he ever did. Worked as Peace Corps program evaluator around the world 1964-67.  Ran the anti-poverty program in Pittsfield, MA, 1968-71.  Free-lance writer after that.  Wrote for magazines and newspapers, including 15 years as an editorial writer at The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, MA.  Won New England AP Press Association award for editorials on gay marriage.  Wrote a thriller, GRAND SCAM (Dial, 1979) with Peter Stein.  Wrote the 16 Strachey books under the name Richard Stevenson, starting with DEATH TRICK in 1981.  Four of them filmed by HereTV.  He has been reviewing books regularly for The Washington Post for many years and continues to do so.

He has two children, both excellent human beings now in their forties, one a teacher, one a writer and musician.  He's been with Joe Wheaton, sculptor and video artist since 1990.  Married since the first day it was legal in MA in 2004.

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Killer Reunion by Richard Stevenson

New Man in Town by Edward Kendrick

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Ep:044 : Laury A. Egan is the author of the madcap gay comedy, Fabulous! An Opera Buffa; an LGTBQ suspense set in Venice, Jenny Kidd; a mystery-romance, A Bittersweet Tale;  a YA novel, The Outcast Oracle; a collection, Fog and Other Stories; and two forthcoming novels, The Swimmer and Wave in D Minor. Four volumes of poetry have appeared in limited edition, and forty stories and poems have been published in literary journals. Her visits to Mykonos inspired The Ungodly Hour, and her fine arts photography teaching provided material for the main character’s workshops on the island.

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 Website: www.lauryaegan.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laury.egan

The book is available in Paperback and eBook from Interlude Press: https://store.interludepress.com, Amazon, or bookstores.

The Keeper of Bees by Gregory Ashe
The Lavender House Murder by Nikki Baker

Brad's Website: https://bradshreve.com/

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