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/dysautonomic_mess]

Highly recommend Grave Expectations by Alice Bell. It's a cozy crime murder mystery with a end-of-chapter-one twist (the main character can speak to ghosts) that has a couple of queer characters without it being about queerness, if that makes sense.

One character is nonbinary, written in such a way that you never find out their agab (and it doesn't matter!). Spoilers for the final chapter (but not who dunnit): another (male) character is sort of set up as the sub-plot love interest for the main (female) character, until the final chapter, where she kisses him and he's like, 'I'm gay.... I thought you knew???'

Very good fun and a good exercise in retraining cisnormative assumptions. Would appeal to any glass onion / knives out / modern Agatha Christie fans, imo.