You're listening to All the Backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new. I'm your host,

Danica Ellis. This is episode number 500.5, which is hard to believe, but there we are. Let me know if you've

listened to all 500 episodes, because that would be very impressive. And today I am recommending

some queer graphic novels. Usually, we just talk about two books, but I just find with graphic novels,

I can't talk about them for very long because so much of it is the art. And if I try to

summarize the plot, I'm going to accidentally spoil things. Like you really need to actually

look at it to understand

the visual component of it. So I think for me, they benefit more from quick recommendations.

So I'm going to talk about, we'll see if I run out of time, but I'm planning to talk about

five queer graphic novels.

For some of them, I might be fudging the timeline slightly.

They might not have been out for an entire year, but they haven't been talked about on the pod

before, especially because, again, it's hard to talk about a graphic novel for a long time. At least I finds it.

So even if I read a graphic novel before it comes out, I probably won't recommend it on the regular All the Books episodes because I'll be worried about giving away too much if I'm trying to talk for a solid five minutes

about it. Today's episode is brought to you by Mirror Books, publisher of the Dark Hours by Amy Jordan.

30 years ago, Julia helped to bring down the most prolific serial killer Ireland had ever seen.

And while that case spurred a successful career in a bestselling book, it's also the reason

she's in hiding now.

She's all alone and she's haunted by the things that happened all those years ago and she's

without the husband she had depended on.

When a copycat killer strikes, Julia is called back to active duty, but this time, she's not the young naive officer she was back then.

She knows killers like this one who hunt for sport, and she's determined to put a stop to his plans or die trying.

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