The Zero Signal, the first Science Crimes Division mystery, officially releases today in paperback and digital. Here’s what readers are saying: “The imaginative worldbuilding, the complex characters and the sheer scope that’s both shown and […]
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(Fiction) The Red King
Anders Benet had murdered his mother in the womb. He had no memory of this, nor could he say he intended the woman any harm. Indeed, it wasn’t until his fourteenth year that he killed […]
(Fiction) Evidences
In the midst of the scuffle, none of the chanting protesters noticed the man in the ball cap weave between the police barricades and trot up the steps to the government building. No one glanced […]
(Fiction) The Bell Tower
In the 18th year of my exile, I fell in love with a Brabian woman who was neither wholesome nor chaste but who evinced in me a kind of dread. I had been so long […]
(Fiction) The View From Space
After the events of this week, it only seems appropriate to share this one again… In 1848, I was living in Hungary—or what was then Hungary. That was the year people across Europe finally imagined […]
(Fiction) The Most Dangerous Man in the World
The ruined church had been swept clean of dust and cobwebs but still smelled faintly of earth and mildew. The altar was bare. There was a stack of wooden pews in the knave. I heard […]
(Fiction) A Minor Exorcism
He was making a proper nuisance of himself, whoever he was. I could hear the screams from the street. I stepped from the car and met the officer in charge, a woman named Ballantine. I […]
(Fiction) As If To Swallow Me
Bistro Indigenes was packed with the dinner crowd. Male and female servers scurried about in neat black aprons and matching bandannas. By the time I got there, Amber was already waiting, which embarrassed me a […]
(Fiction) You Don’t Even Wanna Know
We tracked the kidnapper to a swanky private club on the Upper East Side. The old stone building looked like any other row mansion on the street—walled and immaculate and seemingly impenetrable. The only hint […]
(Fiction) This is kidnapping, you know that right?
I tripped hard that night. I don’t remember all of it. Supposedly, I freaked out at some point and told everyone death was stalking me, that it was coming, that I could feel it. I […]
