Summer brings the grisly discovery of human remains in the subway system, but the clues point to one of Larkin’s already-open cases, so he resumes active duty. And when a postmortem photograph, akin to those taken during the Victorian Era, is located at the scene, Larkin requests aid from the most qualified man he knows: Detective Ira Doyle of the Forensic Artists Unit.
An unsolved case that suffered from tunnel vision, as well as the deconstruction of death portraits, leads Larkin and Doyle down a rabbit hole more complex than the tunnels beneath Manhattan. And if this investigation isn’t enough, both are struggling with how to address the growing intimacy between them. Because sometimes, love is more grave than murder.
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.