2025 fantasy mystery, second in the series. On the border of the Empire, a new member of the mission negotiating with a petty kingdom has disappeared from his room and later turned up, well, some of him has turned up, floating in the canals. But why would he even have been a target?
Well, it took longer to sort out than it should have.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved base conversion and string analysis. (Note that this ends today.)
2016 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, tenth in the Logan McRae series. A missing-persons investigation has just turned up a body in the woods, killed and arranged in a very specific way associated with a particular out-of-town drug boss. And Wee Hamish Mowat, who's ruled Aberdeen's underworld for years, is on his deathbed…
I had to be in London recently. I met an unexpected immigrant just off Russell Square.
2026 science fiction mystery novella. Dorothy Gentleman, ship's detective aboard a starship on a thousand-year voyage, is confronted with something that simply shouldn't be possible: a baby.
2025 fantasy-romance epistolary short story. The Wild Witch of the Withering Woods writes to the Wicked Wizard of the Westering Waste in order to get back the package that's been delivered to him in error.
There are already other ways to do this. Of course I had to do it the hard way.
1975 children's fantasy, first of a loose series but it stands alone. After the last king died, Dalemark was effectively divided between its Earls, and the South is more oppressive than the North, but that doesn't matter to Moril and his family of travelling musicians. Well, it shouldn't.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved list comparison and colour mangling. (Note that this ends today.)