E.K. Wicher

The Gyre

In this novella, Devilly Peen, a writer of detective fiction uses her imaginative skills to solve a series of gruesome murders. She inhabits a mildy dystopian world, a vast agglomeration of plastic waste that circulates gently in the western Pacific Ocean. This is the Great Pacific Gyre. Devilly's a ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
Thank Goodness for Poisonous Snails

Poisonous snails: murder by mollusc solved by a cozy alien octopod. A Devilly Peen murder mystery. The village of Nether Vortex nestles in the outer spiral of the Great Pacific Gyre, where colonizing octopods have built a civilization out of a giant swirl of plastic waste. With its nosy neighbou ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
Dining with Humboldt Squid

A classic murder mystery set in the unusual surroundings of The Gyre -- that giant swirl of garbage in the mid-Pacific Ocean colonized by octopods, a race of eight armed aliens who have built a civilization out of plastic waste. There, amidst the empty water bottles and yogurt pots you will find ...