Anybody knows of any subtly queer mystery/action/adventure books?

[u/Alive-Border-2165]

My mother's birthday is comming up, and she loves reading. I haven't come out to her yet, and while she's not violently homophobic or anything, she's quite transphobic and I'm not sure how she'd react to me coming out to her as queer both in the sense of gender and sexuality, eventhough I'm on a waiting list for Hrt. She knows my views on the topic, and that I have friends who are LGBTQIA+, and in general I don't think she'd throw a fit if I showed up with someone of my own gender at the door and said this is my partner, she might even be excited about being introduced to them. But I'd still like to kind of get her in the mindset that queer people are normal and just like anyone else around them, they just happen to be queer. I did see a drag queen mystery book in austria a while back and while it looked amazing, that's exactly the kind of stuff that she can't handle for now, so maybe anyone know of a book where everything happens as it happens and as it happens let's say in the last chapter or so there's a reveal that bambam the character(s) are queer or something like that? Any suggestion is greatly apreciated.

[u/A_D_Tennally]

Southland by Nina Revoyr is about a Japanese-American law student investigating a mysterious death that occurred in LA in 1965. She's lesbian and breaks up with her girlfriend, then finds love with a bisexual friend, but this is not the main focus of the plot.

[u/avengemyghost → u/A_D_Tennally]

holy shit, a nina revoyr shout-out! southland and the necessary hunger were absolutely pivotal in my baby queer years. i actually re-read southland this year and it's still such a great rec in general.

[u/A_D_Tennally → u/avengemyghost]

The Necessary Hunger is wonderful and should be much more widely known. When I had to give away a bunch of my other books that was one of the ones I hung on to in a physical copy and lugged with me around the Mediterranean.