In order to celebrate the new cover (and new minor edition) of Murder In Absentia, I will be hosting a Cover Reveal party on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/events/1103905369642703/ There will be games, giveaways, trivia and general fun! I’ll be answering questions in real time, giving away ebook and paperback copies, and generally being my over-caffeinated excitable self […]
Ancient Rome
Fifty Grey Shades
This story is a product of prodding from Julia, my wife and inspiration. Her insistence that “sex sells” has led me to do a market research into the currently highest-trending mass-market erotica (dreadful stuff, which left me feeling dirty). I give you now the result, my own take on this popular trope with a uniquely […]
Quora Top Writer
Quora is an amazing site of questions and answers. Unlike a few other I can name, the quality of the community and the responses is amazing. University professors, astronauts, artist and people from all walks of life make it – and keep it – at a very high quality of answers. As of yesterday, I […]
Giveaway! Free signed Copy!
Hi guys, I’m running a giveaway on Goodreads for Murder in-absentia! Enter for a chance to win a free signed copy of the most exciting fantasy murder mystery (with an historical bent and a splash of horror) released this year! Go here to enter: www.goodreads.com/book/show/26867372-murder-in-absentia Winners will be announced on Jan 1st – […]
New Directions – Part I
The story takes place about twelve years before the events of Murder In Absentia and during 63 BCE in Rome (just after the events of Catilina’s Riddle by Steven Saylor). This story is fan-fiction. Gordianus the Finder is © Steven Saylor, and is used without permission but with much love and admiration. Egretia, 523 AUC Never practice […]
The Detective and The Toga
The Detective and the Toga, one of the Internet’s best troves for ancient Roman detective novels, has included Murder in-absentia in his listing! http://histmyst.org/miscellany.html#murderinabsentia
Celebrating Murder In Absentia now fully available
Murder In Absentia is now fully available for Kindle and in print. To celebrate I will be posting some more Felix short stories I have been preparing for this day 🙂 A new story will be coming every week.
Burnt
The events in this story take place about three years before those of Murder In Absentia. Felix is hired to deal with some strange sanitation issues. I pushed the burnt body with the toe of my boot. The charred remains shifted, slid, turned over. The face was still barely recognisable, as the burns were from […]