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Prologue: Corsica
Finally the monster was at bay.
It had been flushed out of the forest. It had been hounded downhill, bullets smacking at its heels and whanging into the trunks of oaks and other mountain broadleafs on either side of it. It had been shepherded by gunfire into the village and driven along the streets. At last it had been corralled in a cul-de-sac with high, ancient walls on either side.
Cornered, panting, torso lathered in sweat, the monster turned.
1 – Petra
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[In this excerpt from the 'Kim' half of my palindromic double-novella, the eponymous antiheroine Kim finds herself embroiled in a clash between two rival groups of music fanatics…] Read the rest of this entry »
(The peaceful festivities of the town of Downbourne are shattered by the arrival of some very nasty interlopers.) Read the rest of this entry »
When Nora stepped out into my headlights there was no way I could avoid her. The front bumper embraced her legs and she jack-knifed flat over the bonnet, arms outstretched, face to the windscreen, staring at me through the glass, looking me straight in the eye. Read the rest of this entry »
(Parry and his lieutenant, Pål Johansen, begin their investigations into the strange deaths of a Siren and a Foreigner.) Read the rest of this entry »
It was another merely magnificent Monday in the life of William Ian North. Read the rest of this entry »
(In this extract, our store detective hero, Frank Hubble, starts work and gets his first glimpse that day of a potential shoplifter.) Read the rest of this entry »