A Ghostwriter Mystery (Book 5)
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Copyright 2014 Larmer Media
Cover design by Stuart Eadie
Edited by Novel Proofreading
& Elaine Rivers (with thanks)
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This is a work of fiction. Really it is. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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The woman’s limbs flailed in all directions, one Nike trainer flying off as she plummeted from the edge of the cliff down towards the cerulean Mediterranean Sea. She must have screamed (how could she not?) but whatever sound she made was swallowed by the screeching of the train that was hurtling at the same time, through the mountain tunnel, towards the tiny village of Manarola, its happy day-trippers oblivious to her horror, seeing only a stunning view through their raised cameras and iPads.
“Isn’t it peaceful?” one sightseer ventured to another just as the woman’s body smashed against the jagged rocks at the bottom and was promptly collected by a wave and washed out to sea.
A metre below the fence line, her shoe was caught by a prickly pear cactus and settled into its spikes, the only evidence she had come before, while the tourists continued happily snapping away.