This all came about because Elizabeth Bear blogged about hammering away at a vampire novella she didn’t expect to be able to sell. Well, we bought that tale, and many more in her New Amsterdam setting. Here’s a novelette-length excursion from early in Abby Irene’s career as Deputy Crown Inspector we think you’ll enjoy.

The White City, the latest book-length novella, is in stock in and shipping.

Now, about “The Tricks of London”, read by Mary Robinette Kowal:

An ambitious young policeman with a dangerous secret. A scandalous woman who also happens to be a Crown Investigator. A series of gruesome murders in the benighted rookeries of a 19th-century London not quite our own….

Listen here.