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C.S. Poe is an author of gay mystery, romance, and speculative fiction. She is a Lambda Literary and two-time EPIC award finalist, and FAPA, Indie, and two-time e-Lit award winner.

She resides in New York City, but has also called Key West and Ibaraki, Japan, home. She loves Romanticism artwork, Gilded Age New York, the films of Buster Keaton, coffee in the morning and whiskey in the evening, true crime, and cats. She’s rescued two cats—Milo and Kasper do their best to distract her from work on a daily basis.

C.S. is an alumna of the School of Visual Arts.

Her debut novel, The Mystery of Nevermore, was published 2016.

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	Madison Square Murders (Memento Mori, #1) 4.40 avg rating — 3,198 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mystery of Nevermore (Snow & Winter, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 3,211 ratings — published 2016 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Subway Slayings (Memento Mori, #2) 4.44 avg rating — 2,152 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mystery of the Curiosities (Snow & Winter, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 2,123 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broadway Butchery (Memento Mori #3) 4.44 avg rating — 1,713 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mystery of the Moving Image (Snow & Winter, #3) 4.29 avg rating — 1,694 ratings — published 2018 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mystery of the Bones (Snow & Winter, #4) 4.33 avg rating — 1,408 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Engineer (Magic & Steam, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 1,225 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mystery of the Spirits (Snow & Winter, #5) 4.41 avg rating — 1,067 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Southernmost Murder 4.09 avg rating — 1,111 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sale: Snow & Winter series

The entire Snow & Winter series is on sale until Friday, September 20, in celebration of National Forensics Week! Sure, Sebastian Snow is a meddlesome sleuth who defies the rules, but Homicide detective Calvin Winter and Crime Scene Unit detective Neil Millett both put up with this colorblind antique dealer's antics because they love him. (Or don't—depends on who you ask.) So I decided to show Read more of this blog post »

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C.S. Poe wrote a new blog post Sale: Snow & Winter series The entire Snow & Winter series is on sale until Friday, September 20, in celebration of National Forensics Week! Sure, Sebastian Snow is a meddlesom Read more of this blog post »
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C.S. Poe answered James Garman's question: I have read 3 of the Memento Mori series but can't find the last one Hudson River Homocides either in digital fomr via my library, physically as a paper and cover book at my library or even on Amazon. How would you suggest I find a copy? I would love to complete the series, or at least I think the fourth one might be the end of the series. Hi! Hudson River Homicides hasn’t been released yet—I’m still writing it. There was a pre-order that was cancelled over the summer to allow me more time to finish, so that’s probably why it shows as unavailable in some places. Stay tuned because more See Full Answer
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C.S. Poe rated a book it was amazing The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief by Ben Macintyre	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief by Ben Macintyre is an engrossing and well-researched account of a man who, while little more than a footnote in history today, had taken the Victorian world by storm and left his ...more
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Absolutely gripping, brutally honest, and entirely unputdownable, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara Butcher is an intoxicating autobiography of true crime and one woman’s journey through the city ...more
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Status update for Hudson River Homicides (not cancelled, only delayed!) coming soon... French edition with Juno Publishing, Italian edition with Quixote Edizioni ...more
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C.S. Poe rated a book it was amazing 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Bruce Goldfarb puts the spotlight on the mother of crime scene forensics for the general public in this, 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics, the intensely readable, utterly fascinating, and ...more
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C.S. Poe made a comment on her review of Among the Living (PsyCop, #1) " Noir.Deer wrote: "oh wow this is great to know!! I've been recc this series before but I was hesitant to pick it up" It’s one of my favorites! I hope y ...more "
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Among the Living by Jordan Castillo Price—the novella introduction of what quickly became a cornerstone series in the gay romance genre—is a book I’ve read and listened to so many times I can no longer re-read any of the titles without hearing Gomez ...more
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Alexa Hagerty’s debut title, Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains is incredibly profound, poignant, and a poetic masterpiece of storytelling that’ll undoubtedly hold a place of honor among not only this year’s best reads for m ...more
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“Mr. Snow.'
'Detective Winter.'
'Do you give all of the men in your life a murder case for Christmas, or just the really special ones?”
― C.S. Poe, The Mystery of Nevermore

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“We’re not dating. We’re still performing some weird mating ritual.”
― C.S. Poe, Southernmost Murder

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“People don’t want to know,” he whispered, not looking up.

“Know what?”

“What makes them uncomfortable,” Larkin specified. “Sometimes they don’t know what to say, don’t want to make a bad situation worse. Other times, they only pretend to not know because the empathy required is too big a burden. They pull back. They become distant. They ask how you are the same way they ask if it looks like rain or if you watched that Mets game on TV. People don’t really want to know.”
― C.S. Poe, Madison Square Murders

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“Why can't you say it?" I hardened my voice. "Because I'm telling you, you never have. I'd have remembered."
He stared at me with disbelief. [...]
"Love you? Of course I love you. Baby, I fucking worship you.”
― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide

tags: adrien-and-jake, confession, josh-lanyon, m-m-romance

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“Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?"

"I'm not usually suspected of murdering them."

"You have been as long as I've known you.”
― Josh Lanyon, A Dangerous Thing

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“I know you've all heard the advice, "Show, don't tell." The best writers don't tell you, and quite frankly they don't just show you -- they make you feel it, live it, taste it, touch it. Storytelling is about being in the moment with the characters.”
― Josh Lanyon

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“A psycho murderer who lubed. How considerate.”
― Jordan Castillo Price, Among the Living

tags: jordan-castillo-price, m-m-paranormal, sarcasm, victor-bayne

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“I will not surrender my profession simply because men throughout history have been unduly enamored of their penises!" - Dr. Christine Putnam”
― Jordan L. Hawk, Widdershins

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