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Carless me bringing copies of The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder, for signing at #WordFantasy2025 (not at big signing session). Stop me and buy one for all your sapphic spiritualist skullduggery.

Or it can be delivered signed to your home, or via eBook. Details on my website.

#fantasy #sapphic #murder #mystery #womensleuths #British #books #SFFbookclub

A book cover surrounded by the following aspects in matching Victorian lettering - spooky / Vicious Baronet / Spiritualist Scammers/ Hidden Crimes / older grumpy sapphics / snarky dock-lass/ twisty mystery / Lady in Danger/Queer Found Family
The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Murder by Stephen Cox
A striking book cover with the title and author name dominating.
A rich dark blue background, and a touch of mist. The text appears in gold in a gold rectangular frame, the font is old fashioned implying C19th century. The frame has three rondels or cameos each containing a picture. Top right is a golden bee brooch with the body and one wing streaked with red blood. Middle left is foxgloves, spires of small bell flowers in pink, white and purple. Bottom right is a dark brown medicine bottle, with a pale label. The word LAUDANUM is just visible.
There are pink highlights on some of the letters.
Taken together it is bold, mysterious, and Victorian.

My local London bookshop
@allgoodbookshop.co.uk
has sold 35 copies of The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder - crikey!! They sell my signed copies. It's also in the Quaker Book Centre, Euston Rd, London.

Check out this "astonishing feat" "absolute perfection" "fun read" of a novel

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As September draws to a close, the Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder is getting love! It's the spooky sapphic twisty surprising read you need as the days draw in.

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a devilish dance through Victorian fakery… a story that's mysterious, driven and, above all, great fun to read.

The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Murder by Stephen Cox
A striking book cover with the title and author name dominating.
A rich dark blue background, and a touch of mist. The text appears in gold in a gold rectangular frame, the font is old fashioned implying C19th century. The frame has three rondels or cameos each containing a picture. Top right is a golden bee brooch with the body and one wing streaked with red blood. Middle left is foxgloves, spires of small bell flowers in pink, white and purple. Bottom right is a dark brown medicine bottle, with a pale label. The word LAUDANUM is just visible.
There are pink highlights on some of the letters.
Taken together it is bold, mysterious, and Victorian.

Publication Day The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder

“It's deliciously twisty, with women who won't be told, a young bride in peril, and the delicate art of a con.”

“A book I've been looking for all my life. Queer found family all wrapped up in a supernatural murder mystery. Absolute perfection.”

“a brilliant, gripping story. .. if you're looking for a great new book to read, I encourage you to check it out.”

#bookstodon #books #reading #historical #sapphic #spooky #womensleuths

A striking book cover with the title and author name dominating.
A rich dark blue background, and a touch of mist. The text appears in gold in a gold rectangular frame, the font is old fashioned implying C19th century. The frame has three rondels or cameos each containing a picture. Top right is a golden bee brooch with the body and one wing streaked with red blood. Middle left is foxgloves, spires of small bell flowers in pink, white and purple. Bottom right is a dark brown medicine bottle, with a pale label. The word LAUDANUM is just visible.
There are pink highlights on some of the letters.
Taken together it is bold, mysterious, and Victorian.

Hi Masto, for a brief period you can download my book The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder as an ePub here. It's Bookfunnel so sound, and should work on many platforms. Please boost!

Victorian England and an older sapphic couple, running a spiritualist scam, try to prevent a murder.

https://BookHip.com/CNCQTCB for download

https://stephencox.co.uk/books/upcoming/

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#WordWeavers 19. Could you imagine a story in the same world where your MC is the antagonist?

Already have. Mrs Ashton and Braddie started out as the antagonists in a short story - at least, close alt-versions.

They interested me more than the protagonists. after another false start, The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder was born.

I have another story in which the narrator believes they are the bad guys.

#Victorian #spooky #Murder #amwriting #WomenSleuths #writingcommunity #books #booksky

Two weeks before #TheCrookedMedium... I write about how C19th tech leaves plenty of room for the gifted amateur.
Yuckiest fact.

Smell/taste stomach contents etc / feed to rats - tests for poisons + sedatives. Eww.

Full post

https://stephencox.co.uk/the-sleuth-the-scientist-and-the-victorian-criminal/

#Victorian #Mystery #Historical #spooky
#sapphic #books #bookstodon #WomenSleuths

“The Paris Police Laboratory”, Ferdinand Gueldry, via artvee. (1887)

Several men, some in aprons, stand or sit at benches with old fashioned chemical equipment. Intent on their work, none wear police uniforms as such. A high ceilinged room, with an open door almost twice a man's height suggests they are keen to ventilate it. The colour palate is brown and yellow

Not sending this to the newspaper.

SIL pitching as pitch

"A highly readable Victorian mystery melodrama with a big heart, Sarah Waters meets Richard Osman."

https://stephencox.co.uk/books/upcoming/

#History #HistoricalMurderMystery #WomenSleuths #spooky #Victorian #Murder #booksky #amreading #reading# books #preorder #covers #NoAi

Stephen Cox pulling a face and showing a fan of three books, trees in the background. He's a genial, big, grey hair and beard guy pulling a silly mock serious face. The book alt text is A striking book cover mockup with the title and author name dominating.
A rich dark blue background, and a touch of mist. The text appears in gold in a gold rectangular frame, the font is old fashioned implying C19th century. The frame has three rondels or cameos each containing a picture. Top right is a golden bee brooch with the body and one wing streaked with red blood. Middle left is foxgloves, spires of small bell flowers in pink, white and purple. Bottom right is a dark brown medicine bottle, with a pale label. The word LAUDANUM is just visible.
There are pink highlights on some of the letters.
Taken together it is bold, mysterious, and Victorian.

The fantastic cover of The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder! Preorders open!

I have a deep dive on getting this cover on website - in thread.

#bookstodon #mystery #spooky #sapphic #Victorian #murder #womensleuths #indieauthor #books #reading #amreading #amwriting #writingcommunity

As of this morning there are only 6 coupons left for Wilde Accusation on Smashwords.

https://www.smashwords.com/book/view/1761057

Get your free ebook today!

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The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder
Advance copies available - DM's open

#Victorian Two older women, secret lovers living off their spiritualist scam; a beautiful young Lady lost in grief; and a Member of Parliament concealing a hideous crime. Can the lovers stop a murder?

"If you, like me, love a crook with a heart of gold, then these queer old birds are sure to capture your heart."

#MurderMystery #historical #spooky #sapphic #LGBTQ #WomenSleuths #paranormal #books #bookstodon

victorian cemetary angel statue, female, leading on a tombstone with eyes closed, beautiful and impassive. Winged. The grey pallet and image gives a spooky and or thoughtful impression

My spooky Victorian mystery THE CROOKED MEDIUM'S GUIDE TO MURDER is published 1st September.

eARCs will shortly be available
1) for bookbloggers, podcasts, etc
2) for subscribers to my free newsletter (no spam)

#HistoricalMurderMystery #womensleuths #sapphic #LGBTQ #paranormal #books #bookstodon #SFF

https://stephencox.co.uk/contactrules/

Victorian painting of a long haired woman with a pen and document, by a gloomy sea and a rising dark rock behind her. She has an owl behind her. Stern, youngish, thoughtful... she has some enigmatic power and significance (The Seeress by William Stuckleberg)

I want to get The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder out there, and I'm looking at stuff like Amazon keywords. I'm also looking at non-Amazon alternatives to everything.

#spooky #sapphic #LGBTQ #Victorian #MurderMystery #womensleuths #paranormal

There seems a debate what the boundaries of cosy/cozy are. This is probably cosy adjacent

"Abbie Bradford is at a crossroads."

Getting to Know You… Guest Post, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: The Everest Enigma (Abbie Bradford Mystery #1) by Jeannette de Beauvoir - #Mystery, #WomenSleuths,

https://archaeolibrarian.wixsite.com/website/post/guest-post-giveaway-the-everest-enigma-abbie-bradford-mystery-1-by-jeannette-de-beauvoir

Brotherhood in Death (In Death Series) by J. D. Robb (EPUB)
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Brotherhood in Death (In Death Series) by J. D. Robb (EPUB)
Author: Goodreads best books collection 2016
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/brotherhood-in-death-in-death-series-bde35b734e/
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