The fact that the team ended up being gay probably just reflects the fact that I'm more comfortable writing about a romantic gay relationship than I would be writing about a straight one.ĬW: Is it much different than doing a 'straight mystery'?įH: Yeah. Just like Tuppence, poor Alex ends up getting involved in a foreign plot simply because of a chance encounter. One of my favorite sleuthing teams is Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Since I was already doing standard murder mysteries, I decided to tackle something that had more to do with espionage. I wanted to create another series and make it as different as possible from the Ransom books. Why was it important for you to write a gay mystery?įred Hunter: Well, it wasn't important to me to write a specifically 'gay mystery' it was only important to me to do something new. Cynthia White, an avid reader of mysteries, resides in Chicago and writes for Outlines, Chicago's gay & lesbian newspaperĬynthia White: In your new book, amateur sleuth Alex Reynolds is gay. An Interview with Fred Hunter Author of Government Gayįred Hunter is the author of Government Gay as well as three previous mysteries in a separate series.
