Dead Scared
Page 31
“You mean old man Meath and his wife?”
“No. I mean the other bones, the ones the Court never heard about, the ones the pathologist in Portland examined and determined were human. I believe you got his report a short while after the trial?”
The Chief sat stunned, silent. His face flushed.
“Oh, and while you think about that, perhaps you could comment on the story that the Bloss family has applied to exhume the remains of their aunt, Miss Florence Bloss?”
“Who the hell is Florence Bloss?”
“She was a single lady, lived out near the Potteries. She was supposed to have been buried in the Bemishstock cemetery. Her family now has reason to believe, however, her remains may have been tampered with before her interment.”
“Probably another stunt by the Chandler kid,” the Chief grumbled.
“Not likely,” Jackie said with another disarming smile.
“And why not?”
“Because Miss Bloss’s funeral was in April last year, five months before the Chandler family moved to Bemishstock.”
The Chief sat in silence. Sweat beaded on his forehead.
“Crackerjack, isn’t she,” Koyman said with obvious delight. “We’re all going to be hearing a lot more from this young woman.”
When the Chief spoke, he could barely whisper.
“Why are you doing this now? The kid will probably get out in a few months.”
“Something Chandler said when we interviewed him last week,” replied Koyman.
“Okay, so what was that?”
“Retribution.”
About the Author
I was born next to the pub in a small village in England whose church was haunted by the Grey Lady and whose churchyard held my ancestors. My family immigrated to Canada when I was five and I attended sixteen schools before completing grade eleven. I did undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Canada and the United States and taught university for fifteen years before joining the Federal Government. I have written radio documentaries, a Christmas special for television and a vampire stage play, all of which have been performed. I have lectured and advised governments all over the world, and now travel purely for pleasure. I love reading, wines and water gardening, and am a father and a grandfather, and most important, a husband of nearly fifty years.
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Dead Silent
The Mortsafeman Book Two
Chris Chandler is attempting to escape the glare of the media while the State of Maine reviews his conviction and investigates the disappearance of so many corpses from Bemishstock. He is hiding out in the tiny town of Lewis, Vermont where he’s been invited to house-sit the estate of a mysterious family with a history stretching back to the thirteenth century and the Albigensian Crusade. In Lewis he discovers one of the town’s prodigal sons has recently returned with a plan for a Goth festival and Grand Guignol Theater, which he’ll fund through the sale of human remains. Again, Chris and Gillian battle defilers of the dead, this time with the aid of an ancient amulet and an army of tortured phantoms, while their search intensifies for a way to lay Mallory Dahlman’s vengeful spirit to rest.
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