Post by eclair on Jan 5, 2017 21:32:32 GMT -4
Hey, Bronze, I hope some of these interest you.
Re: mysteries with POC and (mostly) female detectives-
I liked the 2 Mahalia Watkins soul food mysteries I read recently. The author is A. L. Herbert. I hope this series continues. There are a lot more books in Sujata Massey's series about protagonist Rei Shimura. I haven't read Carolina Garcia-Augilera's books for a while, but she has a Cuban American private detective protagonist, Lupe Solano. Misa Ramirez has written a few books with a Latina protagonist, the first in the series is Living the Vida Lola, a Lola Cruz mystery.
Gar Anthony Haywood wrote only 2 cozy books about retired African American couple Joe and Dottie Loudermilk who sold their house to travel in an airstream (do not call it a Winnebago). They have 5 kids, only one is responsible enough to know where they are. I think there were meant to be more books, perhaps each one featuring a different child. The first book, Going Nowhere Fast, centers around the youngest child, Theodore aka "Bad Dog", and the mess he gets them into. I re-read these, they're light, very funny and enjoyable. Dottie Loudermilk is the narrator. I really wish he'd continued this series, instead of switching to thrillers.
Want a trilogy about a clairvoyant Chicana activist? Of course you do; we all do. Lucha Corpi's first book is Eulogy for a Brown Angel, introducing Gloria Damasco.
I absolutely love the series about Dr. Siri, an older doctor who fought for decades to make Laos communist. The series starts with The Coroner's Lunch soon after the revolution in the early 70s. Dr. Siri would like to retire, but the country needs a coroner. In the first book we meet most of the central cast of characters, Dr. Siri's assistants, a young man with down's syndrome and a young woman who hopes to be a dr. We, along with Dr. Siri, learn that he is the host of a 3000 year old Hmong shaman in the first book. The author and protagonist are male, though. Still, a great series.
So far How to Greet Strangers is Joyce Thompson's only mystery book featuring Archer Barron. He's an HIV+, gay, African American man working as a night watchman and volunteering at a free clinic. He was very involved with a Santeria priestess who promised to cure him, didn't, and he left the sect. When she is murdered he gets involved with her group again. I would read more in this series if she writes more.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head...
Re: mysteries with POC and (mostly) female detectives-
I liked the 2 Mahalia Watkins soul food mysteries I read recently. The author is A. L. Herbert. I hope this series continues. There are a lot more books in Sujata Massey's series about protagonist Rei Shimura. I haven't read Carolina Garcia-Augilera's books for a while, but she has a Cuban American private detective protagonist, Lupe Solano. Misa Ramirez has written a few books with a Latina protagonist, the first in the series is Living the Vida Lola, a Lola Cruz mystery.
Gar Anthony Haywood wrote only 2 cozy books about retired African American couple Joe and Dottie Loudermilk who sold their house to travel in an airstream (do not call it a Winnebago). They have 5 kids, only one is responsible enough to know where they are. I think there were meant to be more books, perhaps each one featuring a different child. The first book, Going Nowhere Fast, centers around the youngest child, Theodore aka "Bad Dog", and the mess he gets them into. I re-read these, they're light, very funny and enjoyable. Dottie Loudermilk is the narrator. I really wish he'd continued this series, instead of switching to thrillers.
Want a trilogy about a clairvoyant Chicana activist? Of course you do; we all do. Lucha Corpi's first book is Eulogy for a Brown Angel, introducing Gloria Damasco.
I absolutely love the series about Dr. Siri, an older doctor who fought for decades to make Laos communist. The series starts with The Coroner's Lunch soon after the revolution in the early 70s. Dr. Siri would like to retire, but the country needs a coroner. In the first book we meet most of the central cast of characters, Dr. Siri's assistants, a young man with down's syndrome and a young woman who hopes to be a dr. We, along with Dr. Siri, learn that he is the host of a 3000 year old Hmong shaman in the first book. The author and protagonist are male, though. Still, a great series.
So far How to Greet Strangers is Joyce Thompson's only mystery book featuring Archer Barron. He's an HIV+, gay, African American man working as a night watchman and volunteering at a free clinic. He was very involved with a Santeria priestess who promised to cure him, didn't, and he left the sect. When she is murdered he gets involved with her group again. I would read more in this series if she writes more.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head...
