Mystery and Detective
Beware of Wolf (Underdogs #2)
The werewolf detective Ari and her sidekick Dale solve another mystery in Seattle (F/F)
Dog Biscuits (Book Six of the Underdogs Series)
Ari goes undercover when a pro hockey team comes to Seattle (F/F, Mystery)
Dogs of War (Underdogs #3)
Seattle is under siege. An ancient ceremony known as “wolf manoth,” in which human hunters kill as many canidae as possible, has been revived.
Kennel Club (Underdogs #7)
Underdogs #7, lesbian werewolf detective series - Ari goes to prison! (F/F, Mystery/Detective)
Lost and Forsaken
Detective Grace Halling has a nice ring to it, or so Grace thought, until she receives her first case. Grace has been visiting Harold Crighton for years, and when he suddenly goes missing from the Campbell Home with seemingly no trace, her world is thrown into a spin.
Red in Tooth and Claw (Underdogs #4)
Ari and Dale are back in a new adventure. (F/F, Mystery)
Riley Parra Season Two
The war between Heaven and Hell has been reignited, and Riley Parra is caught in the middle of it. Riley barely has time to recover before she’s thrown into the middle of a serial killer investigation. Dubbed the Angel Maker, the killer strikes seemingly at random and uses his victim’s blood to paint angel wings around the body.
Riley Parra: Season One
Demons Are Real. Riley Parra Plans to Give Them Hell. No Man's Land isn't the kind of place you go after dark, even if you have a badge. But Detective Riley Parra was born there, and she refuses to surrender it to the drug dealers, killers and criminals who have made it their home. The case of a body stuffed into a drainage pipe leads her to discover that there is far more at stake than she ever imagined.
Riley Parra: Season Three
Following the unexpected sacrifice at the conclusion of the Angel Maker case, Riley struggles to get things back to normal. While trying to pick up the pieces, Riley also must face the possible loss of her closest ally.
Riley Parra: Woman of the Apocalypse (Riley Parra #5)
With her own death now predestined, Riley has to work to restore balance in the devastation with the knowledge that she only has a set number of days remaining. Faced with a true deadline and unwilling to let Aissa face down one of the most devious champions Marchosias has ever chosen, Riley is determined to finish the job she started before time runs out.
The Fight in the Dog (Underdogs 9)
Ari and Dale return in adventure #9! (F/F, Paranormal Detective)
The Wolf Who Cried Girl (Underdogs #10)
Ari and Dale make a final stand against the Hunters in a battle to save their family, their city, and every wolf in it. (F/F, Werewolf detective)
Underdogs: The First Stories
Try this free prequel to the popular Underdogs series with lesbian detective Ari. (F/F, Mystery/Detective, FREE)
Underdogs: The Novel (Underdogs #1)
Ariadne Willow is a private investigator with a secret weapon. She’s a canidae, a person with the ability to transform into a wolf at will. (F/F, Mystery/Detective)
Let's talk about what Mystery and Detective at Supposed Crimes really is: Sexy lesbian cops. A lot of us grew up reading detective stories and that was the first genre to feature gay and lesbian characters. First as villains, then as victims, then as heroines in their own right with the advent of Laurie R King and Katherine V. Forrest and Rita Mae Brown.
Supposed Crimes is upholding a GLBT legacy here. C. E. Case even wrote her masters thesis on lesbian detective fiction. Back in 2000, so it's horribly out of date now.
There are two badass cops at Supposed Crimes that rule the roost, both of them women who love women.
The original woman is Riley Parra, who has a five "season" arc. She's a city detective who fights alongside angels against demons, and her lover is Gillian Ander--Gillian Hunt, the city's medical examiner. Cop / ME love is a familiar story, and here it's satisfying, on the page maintext. Riley Parra has such a following that she's becoming the star character in a lesbian webseries from Tello Films. Geonn Cannon, Riley's creator, got to watch the first table read of his script recently.
The point is, everyone loves detectives, and everyone here loves LGBT detectives.
Our other current star is Grace Halling, in the For By Grace series by Adrian J. Smith. She's a beat cop--she sees the action on the streets. She falls in love with the police chaplain, which introduces themes of Christianity and redemption into Grace's story. It doesn't keep her from being kick-ass or violent when she's working, or loving whiskey and long baths when she's not. Grace's story has really caught on--she's the centerpiece of Adrian's ever-exciting, developing work.
The other great thing about mysteries is that they come as series. Letting go of a stand-alone great novel can be hard, but Riley and Grace are always out there, working hard to change the world, one solved crime at a time.