The Ledger

The corpse showed up with an ax in its head and a map in its pocket. Chaucer had not yet been born, and crimes were common in London that year. But when Bartolomeo the Coroner found pages sewn in the victim's jacket, pages in Bartolomeo’s own hand, he knew this wasn’t one of the common crimes.

A short story from the author of Sellenria: The Starship and the Citadel and Interaction Region.