So when a spring thunderstorm uproots a tree in Madison Square Park, unearthing a crate with human remains inside, the best Cold Case detective is assigned the job. And when a death mask, like those prominent during the Victorian era, is found with the body, Larkin requests assistance from the Forensic Artists Unit and receives it in the form of Detective Ira Doyle, his polar opposite in every way.
Factual reasoning and facial reconstruction puts Larkin and Doyle on a trail of old homicide cases and a murderer obsessed with casting his victims’ likeness in death. Include some unapologetic flirting from Doyle, and this case just may end up killing Everett Larkin.
Also available as an audiobook!
Memento Mori series reading order:
#1 Madison Square Murders
#2 Subway Slayings
#3 Broadway Butchery
#4 Hudson River Homicides
Same Universe Spin-offs:
Southernmost Murder (standalone)
Snow & Winter series reading order:
#1 The Mystery of Nevermore
#2 The Mystery of the Curiosities
#3 The Mystery of the Moving Image
#4 The Mystery of the Bones
#5 The Mystery of the Spirits
#1 Interlude (Snow & Winter short story collection)
An Auden & O'Callaghan Mystery series reading order:
#1 A Friend in the Dark
#2 A Friend in the Fire
#3 A Friend in the Glass
Keywords: gay romance, police procedural, slow burn, opposites attract, detective, whodunit, serial killer, partners-in-crime, mm romance, medical condition, grumpy sunshine, workplace romance, lgbt mystery
C.S. Poe is an author of gay mystery, romance, and speculative fiction. She’s a winner of the Next Generation and e-Lit book awards, as well as a finalist of the Lambda Literary award.
She resides in New York City and is a Gilded Age New York historian and board director for the Victorian Society of New York. She loves Romanticism artwork, the films of Buster Keaton, coffee in the morning and whiskey in the evening, true crime, and cats. She’s rescued two cats—Milo and Kasper do their best to distract her from work on a daily basis.
C.S. is an alumna of the School of Visual Arts.
Her debut novel, The Mystery of Nevermore, was published 2016.