A body recovered from the Hudson River bears a message addressed to Larkin and another token from Victorian mourning culture. As nineteenth-century hair jewelry leads Larkin deeper into the growing tangle of interconnected crimes, it becomes evident that solving these mysteries will come at a profound cost. To be a good detective, Larkin will have to endure sleepless nights—lest the sender act on their threat against his partner—as well as put his relationship on the line when clues lead in the direction of Doyle’s past.
What began as a game of cat and mouse has turned into a fight for love and life itself.
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.