Subway Slayings: MM Slow Burn Romantic Mystery

C.S. Poe

Oct 2022 · Memento Mori Book 2 · Emporium Press

About this ebook

Detective Everett Larkin of New York City’s Cold Case Squad has been on medical leave since catching the serial killer responsible for what the media has dubbed the “Death Mask Murders.” But Larkin hasn’t forgotten that another memento—another death—is waiting to be found.

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

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

Keywords: gay romance, police procedural, slow burn, opposites attract, detective, whodunit, serial killer, partners-in-crime, mm romance, medical condition, grumpy sunshine

About the author

C.S. Poe is a Lambda Literary and two-time EPIC award finalist, and a FAPA award-winning author of gay mystery, romance, and speculative fiction.

She resides in New York City, but has also called Key West and Ibaraki, Japan, home in the past. She has an affinity for all things cute and colorful and a major weakness for toys. C.S. is an avid fan of coffee, reading, 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.

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