Undecember Short Stories

A senator dies on the steps of the British Museum - stabbed twenty-three times, a Roman coin on his tongue, and a Latin phrase written in his blood on the columns. His killer has no memory of the act. Silas Thorne, a disgraced ex-MI6 operative turned...

The first thing you notice is the cold. Not the honest, biting cold of a Port Sterling winter, but a dead, sterile cold that seeps up from the concrete floor and into your bones. It’s the cold of a morgue, a place where things end. The light is just...

The diplomat's body was arranged like a museum exhibit - antique car, antique gun, antique bullet. Every camera in three city blocks had been blinded before the first shot. Someone was committing murders from another century in the most surveilled...

Two years ago, they closed the case. They were wrong.Jack Ryker was a decorated detective until his partner Caleb turned up dead in an alley, ruled a mugging gone wrong. He knew it was a lie, but no one would listen. Now he's a washed-up private eye...

The titles on the forum were a litany of predictable vulgarity. Then came Still Life #1.In this macabre psychological thriller, Jennifer discovers a new breed of killer - one who trades rage for meticulous, cold-blooded artistry. The video doesn't...

The killer was already caught. The city had its hero. All Jasper Finch had to do was write the legend.But when Port Sterling's celebrated psychiatrist sits across from him in an interrogation room and chooses the word "composed" to describe how he...