A series of ongoing fantasy detective stories.

Introducing Tamarley:

Tamarley is a city of secrets, of tremulous magic and unanswered questions. Tamarley is not just one city, but two: your city, and the other. Your city is familiar. It’s innovation and propriety, industrialization and smog. The other city…well, the other city is sidhe. It bleeds through the cracks of your city and will pull you in if you lose your way. It’s the sharp tang of magic, the vibrance of new growth, the looming shadow of something old and knowing.

Detective Henry Sheridan Bell is keeper of one of Tamarley’s greatest secrets: if you know the way, you can weave between the cities as will.

Content Warnings

Specific content warnings will be provided at the start of each mystery. Please note that many stories will contain murder and other forms of violence.

Table of Contents

Sheridan Bell and the Vanishing Beast

A strange woman comes to Detective Bell with an even stranger problem: she’s about to be arrested for murder and needs Detective Bell to clear her name.

When the police confuse a simple protection charm for something more sinister and arrest the wrong person, Bell must untangle cons, confront powerful sidhe families, and find the mysterious beast that roams the streets of his city.

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve

The Coachman and the Cook

A short interlude featuring Lash Baumann. Detective Bell gives the librarian a puzzle involving a coachman, a cook, and a widow.

A Fool's Bargain

A short Taise interlude and a brief glimpse into the land of the dead.