2021 fantasy short story, side story in the Harwood Spellbook series. After the events of the novels, Honoria Cosgrave has retired in disgrace, abandoned by her husband as well as all her former friends. But the faerie realm has not forgotten her.
More gaming with nearby friends.
2019 historical thriller, fourth of its series. Veronica Speedwell is invited to a castle on a Cornish island: the lord's wife vanished on her wedding day, the brother's widow is making a living as a medium, and altogether there are a lot of puzzles to be untangled.
2016 Ruritanian fantasy-romance, third of its series. Luzie Valorin, sill mourning her late husband, ekes out a living by teaching music and letting out rooms in the family house; Serafina Talarico came to Roteken to study magic, but can't break through to the talent for it. And something has gone awry up in the mountains, and the annual flood is not coming…
This is part of an ongoing series about the preparations I've made to run Mongoose's revised edition of the Bayern campaign for 2300AD. Spoilers for Interlude 3.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved list processing and string assembly. (Note that this ends today.)
2024 supernatural mystery in modern Edinburgh, thirteenth in Oswald's Inspector McLean series. An old man has a heart attack in an abandoned church; barely worth the police's time. But he turns out to have been a retired criminal, and then one of his old friends dies in the same way…
It is a programming truism that dealing with time is hard; "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time" comes back round every so often, and I've certainly made my share of errors. But there was one Windows bug that doesn't seem to have been widely discussed, and I observed in person.
2002 mystery, twenty-first in Muller's series about Sharon McCone, private investigator in San Francisco. Sharon looks into the suicide of an old friend's godson, who was working at a high-pressure internet lifestyle magazine.
2025 science fiction mystery novella. Dorothy Gentleman, ship's detective aboard a starship on a thousand-year voyage, suddenly finds herself incarnated in the body of a stranger, as a result of an emergency backup program she wasn't even aware of. Someone aboard the ship has just been murdered, and Dorothy's main recorded personality has been erased. So now what?