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Subway Slayings

(Memento Mori: Book Two)

By
C.S. Poe

Subway Slayings

By: C.S. Poe

Detective Everett Larkin of New York City’s Cold Case Squad has been on medical leave since catching the serial killer responsible for what the media has dubbed the “Death Mask Murders.” But Larkin hasn’t forgotten that another memento—another death—is waiting to be found.

Summer brings the grisly discovery of human remains in the subway system, but the clues point to one of Larkin’s already-open cases, so he resumes active duty. And when a postmortem photograph, akin to those taken during the Victorian Era, is located at the scene, Larkin requests aid from the most qualified man he knows: Detective Ira Doyle of the Forensic Artists Unit.

An unsolved case that suffered from tunnel vision, as well as the deconstruction of death portraits, leads Larkin and Doyle down a rabbit hole more complex than the tunnels beneath Manhattan. And if this investigation isn’t enough, both are struggling with how to address the growing intimacy between them. Because sometimes, love is more grave than murder.

Copyright Page

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Subway Slayings

Copyright © 2022 by C.S. Poe

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Edited by Tricia Kristufek

Copyedited by Andrea Zimmerman

Published 2022.

Printed in the United States of America

Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-952133-41-1

Digital eBook ISBN: 978-1-952133-40-4

Dedication

For Kale.

Thank you for elevating this series to something more.

AUTHOR’S NOTE

Detective Neil Millett hails from the Snow & Winter series. The Memento Mori series can be read without any prior knowledge, but for his character origin, begin with Book 1, The Mystery of Nevermore.

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Subway Slayings

Copyright Page

Dedication

Author’s Note

Memento Mori

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

CHAPTER NINETEEN

CHAPTER TWENTY

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About C.S. Poe

Also by C.S. Poe

MEMENTO MORI

Remember that you must die.

CHAPTER ONE

It was Tuesday, May 19, 4:57 p.m., and there was a body in a blue IKEA tote bag.