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March 06, 2023
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Melissa Scott
Biography
Melissa Scott is from Little Rock, Arkansas, and studied history at Harvard College and Brandeis University, where she earned her PhD in the Comparative History program. She is the author of more than thirty original science fiction and fantasy novels, most with queer themes and characters, as well as authorized tie-ins for Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Star Wars Rebels. She won Lambda Literary Awards for Trouble and Her Friends, Shadow Man, Point of Dreams (written with her late partner, Lisa A. Barnett), and Death By Silver, with Amy Griswold. She also won Spectrum Awards for Shadow Man, Fairs’ Point, Death By Silver, and for the short story “The Rocky Side of the Sky” (Periphery, Lethe Press) as well as the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She was also shortlisted for the Otherwise (Tiptree) Award. Her latest short story, “Sirens,” appeared in the collection Retellings of the Inland Seas, and her text-based game for Choice of Games, A Player’s Heart, came out in 2020. Her most recent solo novel, Water Horse, was published in June 2021. Her next solo novel, The Master of Samar, will be out in 2023.
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Where to buy in print
Series
Lynes & Mathey
by Amy Griswold
& Melissa Scott
Death by Silver
A Death at the Dionysus Club
& Melissa Scott
Murder, mystery and magic abound in an Edwardian London where partners in detection and romance, Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey, work together to unravel deadly puzzles.
Death by Silver
Price:
$6.99 USD.
A Death at the Dionysus Club
Price:
$6.99 USD.
Books
A Death at the Dionysus Club
by Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold
Series: Lynes & Mathey.
Price:
$6.99 USD.
Words: 103,190.
Language:
English.
Published: December 7, 2023
by
Queen of Swords Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey are back and this time, the stakes are everything they hold dear. A murderer is finding their victims in the London gentlemen’s clubs where gay men find refuge and each other. Julian and Ned’s friends, their former lovers and foes, are all under threat from both the murderer and the terrible risk of exposure. How high a price are they willing to pay to stop a killer?
Death by Silver
by Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold
Series: Lynes & Mathey.
Price:
$6.99 USD.
Words: 109,260.
Language:
English.
Published: April 13, 2023
by
Queen of Swords Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
When his nemesis from schoolboy days hires London metaphysician Ned Mathey to investigate his father’s murder, Ned turns to his friend and sometime lover, detective Julian Lynes, for help. Together, they must navigate a magical maze of deceit, danger, their painful past and, perhaps, a future together. Can they solve the mystery and forge a new kind of partnership or will the past prove too much?