A Lancaster Story Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Kneading You |
2020 |
Buy |
| Joy |
2020 |
Buy |
| Color of You |
2020 |
Buy |
An Auden & O’Callaghan Mystery Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Friend in the Dark |
2020 |
Buy |
| A Friend in the Fire |
2021 |
Buy |
| A Friend in the Glass |
2024 |
Buy |
| A Friend in the Wind |
2026 |
N/A |
Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Simmer |
2016 |
Buy |
| Once Upon a Time in the Weird West |
2016 |
Buy |
Magic & Steam Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Engineer |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Gangster |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Doctor |
2022 |
Buy |
| The Councilman |
2024 |
Buy |
Memento Mori Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Madison Square Murders |
2021 |
Buy |
| Subway Slayings |
2022 |
Buy |
| Broadway Butchery |
2023 |
Buy |
| Hudson River Homicides |
2025 |
Buy |
| Astor Place Assault |
2026 |
N/A |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Love Has No Expiration |
2015 |
N/A |
| Love in 24 Frames |
2019 |
Buy |
| New Game, Start |
2020 |
Buy |
| That Turtle Story |
2020 |
Buy |
| 11:59 |
2020 |
Buy |
| Curio |
2024 |
Buy |
Snow & Winter Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Mystery of Nevermore |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Mystery of the Curiosities |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Mystery of the Moving Image |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Mystery of the Bones |
2020 |
Buy |
| Interlude |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Mystery of the Spirits |
2021 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Southernmost Murder |
2020 |
Buy |
The Silver Screen#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Lights. Camera. Murder. |
2020 |
Buy |
C.S. Poe lives in New York City and writes mysteries shaped by her expertise in Gilded Age history and her work with the Victorian Society of New York. That historical background runs through her most popular series — Snow & Winter features an antique shop owner solving murders with echoes of Edgar Allan Poe, while Memento Mori follows NYPD cold case detectives uncovering Victorian-era crimes beneath the surface of the modern city.
She has won the Next Generation Indie Book Award and the e-Lit Book Award, and has been a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her output is considerable — nine series ranging from mystery to steampunk fantasy to short fiction — and most of it features gay protagonists in central romantic pairings alongside the mystery or speculative plots.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has C.S. Poe written?
C.S. Poe has written 32 books across nine series.
What was C.S. Poe's first book?
C.S. Poe’s first book is Love Has No Expiration, published in 2015.
What makes C.S. Poe's mysteries distinctive compared to other cozy or amateur sleuth series?
Poe combines gay romance with genuine mystery plotting, and most of her series draw on her expertise in Victorian and Gilded Age history. The Snow & Winter books in particular use antique shop settings and 19th-century New York history as integral parts of the cases, not just background flavor.