2025 fantasy. The Cloak of Sunset and Starlight is a major artifact—meaning it has a mind of its own. It's been sitting in the vault of the Order of the Open Eye since its last wielder died, but here comes an apprentice wizard who looks interesting…
2024 fantasy, linked to the Uncertain Sanctuary series. Raisa is a lawyer who gets tapped as the advocate for a newly-discovered alien species. By the time she gets to the world, one of them has been killed…
1943 mystery/thriller, fifth in the Miss Silver series. Laura Fane is newly of age, and in London to take charge of her inheritance. She meets a smashing young man, and all seems promising; but her distant cousin and social butterfly Tanis Lyle seems to regard the chap as her property. Oh, and there will be a murder.
I went back to camp at Shrewkfest.
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.