Blog Tour incl Intro, Exclusive Scene & Giveaway: C.S. Poe – The Mystery of the Moving Image

A warm welcome to author C.S Poe who is joining us to talk about her new release “The Mystery of the Moving Image”.
C.S is sharing a exclsuve scene with us and also brought a giveaway to participate in!
Welcome C.S 🙂

Hello, everyone and welcome back! I’m C.S. Poe and we’re here at the second stop of The Mystery of the Moving Image blog tour. This is the third book in my mystery-romance series, Snow & Winter, and this post is a continuation of my exclusive coda regarding Sebastian and Calvin’s painful attempts to find a suitable apartment in New York City.

 

Please don’t forget the giveaway at the end! I’ve got three small boxes of saltwater taffy, Sebastian’s favorite, from Salty Road in Brooklyn, NY. There’s mint flavor for Calvin, salty caramel for Sebastian, and rainbow cake, a celebration of these two men together!

 

Enjoy Part 2 of my coda.

 

C.S. Poe

 

That night, with the television muted and flickering too brightly in the dark room, I laid stretched out on the couch. I held my phone in both hands above my face, squinted, and scrolled through photos of places to rent.

At the start of all this, I’d jokingly told Max I was a few frustrated days away from living on a cot in the Emporium. How little I knew back in February that trying to find an acceptable apartment for two men and a dog in a city like New York, where I can have Indian takeout delivered by an Uber driver at three in the morning, would actually be really goddamn difficult. Harassing Realtors and creepin’ on every website known to man was my life now.

Fuck me.

My cell started ringing. I startled, dropped it on my face, and cursed.

“Sonofa—!” I hissed out the rest when I remembered my father was sleeping in his bedroom. I picked the phone up, rubbed my face, and hit Accept. “Hello?”

“Hey, baby. I didn’t wake you, did I?”

“Oh, no. Sorry, I’m not wearing glasses and I smacked my face with the phone.”

“How are you otherwise?” Calvin asked with a smile in his tone.

“None the worse for wear. Did you just get home?”

“Hm-hm.”

“What time is it?”

“Almost eleven.”

I sat up on the couch. My neck ached from sleeping awkwardly on it for the last week. Naturally, I’d have preferred sleeping with Calvin. Preferred having my face smooshed into his armpit or me being suffocated by his hunky, bulking body….

“I miss your body,” I stated suddenly, cutting Calvin off from whatever he was about to say.

“Miss yours too.” And Calvin said that without missing a beat—without a note of hesitation.

“A lie I can live with,” I replied.

“Uh-huh.” Clothing crinkled and rustled over the line.

“Did you call to cocktease me?” I asked.

“I’ve been in this suit for fifteen hours,” Calvin answered. “I’m multitasking.”

“Are you still up for open houses tomorrow?”

“Yeah.” I heard the distinct schhhk of Calvin pulling his tie off.

That one-handed sexy move Calvin did when it came to his neckties was enough to give a guy a chub. Or at least a guy like me, who appreciated a gorgeous, brick wall of a man taking off a tailored suit. But sitting alone in my dad’s living room, on the couch, in the dark—it was kind of embarrassing that my dick couldn’t go a full week without wondering where Calvin’s hand was.

Or mouth.

Or… you know.

“I was thinking,” Calvin said, and I realized I wasn’t sure if he’d just started speaking or if I’d been zoned out for a while. “After these open houses, we could—”

“Yes.”

“What?”

“Whatever you suggest, yes.”

“And if I told you I wanted to get the car washed and vacuumed?” Calvin asked, drawing out the question.

I shrugged to myself. “I’ll do 101 domestic chores if it meant spending time with you.” I cleared my throat and picked at a stray thread on my pajama pants. “You know. It’s just… I don’t always get to see you at the start of a new case.”

“Or when I’m in the midst of one.”

“And wrapping it up,” I concluded before laughing quietly, mindful of Pop. “I’m happy you’ve got some well-deserved time off coming.”

“So I guess I won’t have to twist your arm tomorrow when it comes to dinner and spending the night?”

Tour:

09/10/18 – Gay Book Reviews

09/11/18 – Love Bytes Reviews

09/12/18 – Two Chicks Obsessed

09/13/18 – It’s About the Book

09/14/18 – Boy Meets Boy

Blurb:

It’s summer in New York City, and antique shop owner Sebastian Snow is taking the next big step in his relationship with NYPD homicide detective, Calvin Winter: they’re moving in together. What should have been a wonderful week of playing house and celebrating Calvin’s birthday comes to an abrupt end when a mysterious package arrives at the Emporium.

Inside is a Thomas Edison Kinetoscope, a movie viewer from the nineteenth century, invented by the grandfather of modern cinema, W. K. L. Dickson. And along with it, footage of a murder that took place over a hundred years ago.

Sebastian resists the urge to start sleuthing, even if the culprit is long dead and there’s no apparent danger. But break-ins at the Emporium, a robbery, and dead bodies aren’t as easy to ignore, and Sebastian soon realizes that the century-old murder will lead him to a modern-day killer.

However, even with Sebastian’s vast knowledge of Victorian America and his unrelenting perseverance in the face of danger, this may be the one mystery he won’t survive.

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C.S. Poe is a Lambda Literary and EPIC award finalist author of gay mystery, romance, and paranormal books.

She is a reluctant mover and has called many places home in her lifetime. C.S. has lived in New York City, Key West, and Ibaraki, Japan, to name a few. She misses the cleanliness, convenience, and limited-edition gachapon of Japan, but she was never very good at riding bikes to get around.

She has an affinity for all things cute and colorful and a major weakness for toys. C.S. is an avid fan of coffee, reading, and cats. She’s rescued two cats—Milo and Kasper do their best on a daily basis to sidetrack her from work.

C.S. is a member of the International Thriller Writers organization.

Her debut novel, The Mystery of Nevermore, was published by DSP Publications, 2016.

 

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Three boxes of saltwater taffy from Salty Road in Brooklyn, NY.

 

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