The Body Plot: A Crossroad City Tale

by Rebecca M. Senese

Called to a crime scene, Detective Maeve Hemlock identifies the body as a faerie. A faerie dead in the normal world. No identification. No obvious cause of death. As a faerie herself, Maeve feels obligated to investigate. But that means crossing back into the Nether Realm. The one thing she hates. All because of a dead faerie. Visit the strange world of Crossroad City, where magic and the normal world collide. And where detective Maeve Hemlock and the Spells and Misdemeanours Bureau struggle to keep the law and the magic in check to save all.

47 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 18, 2018

About the author

Based in Toronto, Ontario, I weave words of horror, mystery, contemporary fantasy, and science fiction. I am the author of the contemporary fantasy series, the Noel Kringle Chronicles featuring the son of Santa Claus working as a private detective in Toronto. Garnering an Honorable Mention in “The Year’s Best Science Fiction” and nominated for numerous Aurora Awards, my work has appeared in Bitter Mountain Moonlight: A Cave Creek Anthology, Promise in the Gold: A Cave Creek Anthology, Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Home for the Howlidays, Unmasked: Tales of Risk and Revelation, the Obsessions Anthology, Fiction River: Superpowers, Fiction River: Visions of the Apocalypse, Fiction River: Sparks, Fiction River: Recycled Pulp, Tesseracts 16: Parnassus Unbound, Ride the Moon, Tesseracts 15: A Case of Quite Curious Tales, TransVersions, and Storyteller, amongst others.

Reviews

[Skip · Rating 4 out of 5]

A noir-ish story taking place across the mundane and faerie realms. I enjoyed it, though there were some tiresome bits - "what the spell" isn't nearly as funny as the author seems to think. Fun overall, though.