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John Copenhaver is a crime fiction writer, Lambda columnist, blogger, photography lover, film noir enthusiast, high school English teacher.
Awards: Macavity (2019) see all
Genres: Mystery
Books containing stories by John Copenhaver
Happiness is a Warm Gun (2023)
Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles
(Inspired by anthologies)
edited by
Josh Pachter
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John Copenhaver recommends
The Night of Baba Yaga (2024)
Akira Otani
"Part kick-to-the-solar-plexus martial arts thriller and part poignant queer love story, Akira Otani's spare, tightly plotted The Night of Baba Yaga is a violent and transgressive marvel. The two women at its center - the tough bodyguard Yoriko Shindo and Shoko, the yakuza 'princess' she's charged with protecting - couldn't be more different on the surface, but they awake in each other a desire to live free from the yakuza's cruelty. I read the novel in a breathless flash and still can't shake the sheer power of its ending."
Windhall (2021)
Ava Barry
"At once a cold case mystery and a love letter to Hollywood during the height of its golden age, Windhall is a dark romance of place, from its shimmering Gatsby-esque parties to the shadowy mise en scène of its crime scenes. Barry’s prose is precise, vivid, and seductive; the lure of the past is so potent in the mind of the main character, the intrepid journalist-on-the-case, that you feel his obsession deepening page after page. It's a gorgeous, bedeviling, and compulsively readable debut not to be missed fans of historical mysteries and Hollywood lore."
World War Zero (2019)
(Adventures of Marah Chase, book 1)
Jay Stringer
"Marah Chase is cunning, empowered, and queer, a Lara Croft for the 21st century."
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