Memento Mori

A Halloween photo walk becomes a public trial-and by morning, Tara Linskey is dead.On a rain-slick Halloween night in Cork, a university photo walk turns into a public trial. Veiled frames flare with an unnatural white burn, and the crowd is forced to watch as a nude image of the club's star organiser appears-stamped with a sermon and a threat from an anonymous account calling itself The Judgement.Detective Bria Friday steps into a student house that feels sealed from the inside: four people grieving too hard, protecting themselves too fast, and a digital life already picked clean. Shannon, Declan, Finn, and Riku all had access and proximity-and reasons to reshape the truth. The key witness outside the suspect circle should steady the case; instead, Mason Maloney's panic, gaps, and guilt threaten to contaminate the investigation just as Bria needs him reliable. As Bria follows a trail through sextortion, jealousy, and spectacle, she faces a choice that cost her once before: decide too quickly who deserves blame-and let the real villain slip away, smiling.

The Cold Case Squad has a problem: Someone won't stop taunting Detective Everett Larkin. He's been able to apprehend some of the worst criminals to ever stalk the streets of New York City, thanks in great part to forensic artist and boyfriend, Ira Doyle, but after their last case, events have taken a turn for the worse.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. 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.