Books like A Body to Dye For by Grant Michaels

An epic gay romance saga, starting in 1920 through 2021! In 1941, Brandy Mirakle witnesses the violent deaths of his bigger-than-life parents, Laura and Milo Mirakle. His mother opens a free medical clinic in Georgia and staffs it with black nurses and help. The Ku Klux Klan murders her and her workers but Brandy survives, actually killing three of the Klansmen. His father, Milo Mirakle, takes his traumatized son back to Pearl Harbor where President Franklin Roosevelt has appointed the handsome military expert to report back the morale of the gigantic base. Brandy meets the love of his life, beautiful island boy, Rudy--but Rudy and Milo Mirakle perish along with 3,000 military personnel when the Japanese attack. Through the decades, Brandy becomes a fiery advocate for civil rights along with the LGBT communities and becomes a famous a famous movie director. In 2021, he is 97 years old and dying but forces himself to attend the75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. But there, he meets a strange young man--who changes Brandy's life in a profound way.

447 pages : 24 cm

After a chance online meeting, book manager Ralph Eckhart finds himself entangled with his new lover, the closeted Republican Thersites, whose gossiping book threatens Washington politics and ultimately leads to a murder arrest.

A Lambda Literary Award winner and debut novel, Simple Suburban Murder follows a gay high school teacher investigating a colleague's murder.