Murder Dancing (31 page)

‘So he was safe in police custody all day and you didn't know?' said Fran. ‘That was a bit mean of Ian, wasn't it?'

‘I suppose there was no need to let us know. He said he would have told us before the performance, but we called him first.'

‘But he still didn't tell you.'

‘He didn't want to worry anybody, he said.' Libby snorted. ‘I think he just wanted his dramatic moment.'

‘So that's that,' said Guy. ‘Another adventure over.'

Libby sat back in her chair and lifted her glass. ‘And I'm –'

‘Never going to get involved again,' chanted everybody else.

END

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Shadows and Sins

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Andrea Frazer

The thirteenth in the best-selling Falconer Files by Andrea Frazer.

The body of a woman has been discovered in Castle Farthing Woods, and it appears that although she had been dead for years, nobody had ever reported her missing. DI Harry Falconer of the Market Darley police is perplexed – and not only in his working life. He has recently resumed his relationship with Dr Honey Dubois – but in the course of his investigations, unsettling memories of a former love are revived.

Then the bodies start to come thick and fast…

As Falconer's sidekick DS Carmichael is coping with the early birth of his twins, the DI is forced to form a closer bond with his new constable, as they try to solve a nightmare conundrum. For Falconer is forced to confront the fact that someone has been committing these murders his very nose: he is forced to acknowledge that, in the midst of beautiful countryside and quaint market towns, there is a serial killer on the loose…

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