2011 tartan noir, collection of loosely-linked short stories. It's a few days before Christmas in Oldcastle, and several people won't be having a merry Christmas.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved quinelikes and list processing. (Note that this ends today.)
1973 collection of short supernatural and mystery stories
2019 fantasy. Cassandra Harwood has got her magical school for young ladies, but many people would like it to fail.
2023 SF. Enitan is a scribe and tea cultivator on Koriko, conquered a few years ago by the Vaalbaran Empire. But when her sibling disappears, and her highly-placed friend promises to help her in the search and promptly winds up dead, she volunteers to travel to the mother world as a hostage…
2017 historical thriller, second of its series. After a planned expedition has to be abandoned, Veronica Speedwell and her undeclared beau Stoker are bored in London, and easily lured into investigating a Bohemian murder…
1987 sf. On the gas giant moons of Orestes and Electra, a harsh honour code has been mellowed by allowing "social death" to replace execution. But the system still isn't stable.
2023 gothic fantasy, first of a planned series. Winifred Hall takes up a position as governess at Witchwood Manor, complete with brooding lord, old lady in the attic, enigmatic butler, and other traditional strangenesses.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved network analysis and change calculation. (Note that this ends today.)
2012 fantasy, last of its trilogy. Moon is taken from his adoptive court by what may be his birth family, but it's all much more complicated than that.
2024 short romantic SF novel, side story in Galactic Bonds. Zane Zimmer tries to juggle his position as chief hatchet-man to a psychotic emperor with the demands of his highly-placed family…
More gaming with some nearby friends.
2014 Ruritanian fantasy. Barbara is the elderly Baron's bodyguard-duellist, and after his death is passed on with most of his property to his distant niece Margerit—who mostly wants to study miracles at the university…
Hexicon is a small church-hall convention held quite close to me.
2020 science fiction, second in the Time Police sub-series in the Chronicles of St Mary's continuity (time travel). Team Weird continues to be the dangerous intellectuals of the Time Police.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a list search and an unusual sort. (Note that this ends today.)