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There’s an abundance of policemen gathered to investigate the death of a young woman – and DI McGann, personally affected by her death, does something he is not supposed to do.
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Miss Charity Middleton, a Home Office Pathologist, arrives to view the body of the young woman – and closely questions DI McGann of the British Transport Police.
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...The DC had sneaked a long appraising look at the naked body together with every other red blooded male in the vicinity. But only McGann had met her when she was still in one piece and breathing. Only the DI had had the pleasure of spending time in her company when her flesh was still warm to the touch. Conroy wasn’t telling Yarrow anything about that...
And McGann is far from pleased when he hears the name of the Specdial Ops officer who will be investigating the deathof this young woman.
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...The others seemed engaged deep in conversation on mobile phones to disgruntled relatives, or annoyed mistresses, judging by the animation, but near the splayed victim on the line no-one was saying very much.
All were in agreement. It was a bad do....
The dismembered body of a woman has been found on the railway line. There are emergency service personnel on the scene – but the senior policeman Detective Inspector McGann seems incapable of taking control of the situation.
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...Down wind, self-isolated, DI Tony McGann was holding himself in check: he sat very still evaluating the scene: trying to make any sense of such wanton destruction. He was staring down on his bloodied knuckles and rocking backwards and forwards, his hunched shoulders moving a few inches either way. A looping mantra was running through his head: I am responsible. She’s dead because of me. It’s my fault. I should have had my head on straight: what was I thinking?...
A body has been found, and Detective Inspector McGann is an unhappy and angry man.
Steph Spiers continues her tough, realistic crime story.
Prize fighter Joe Bosley begins to face up to the consequences of causing the death of another boxer.
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…Slack jawed, Joe was horrified. The youth crouched over the body was banging both fists into the chest of the prone figure. That scene would haunt his dreams: Manny Lidderdale’s face would stay imprinted on his memory forever. The dead fighter’s brother was doing everything he knew to save any breath of life…
Boxer Joe Bosley and his son leave the scene of the fight in which his opponent died.
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A man lies died, killed by a blow in an illegal prize fight.
Cash-hungry veteran sports journalist Terry Wilson jumps at the chance to tell the world of his witness to death in combat.
Steph Spiers continues her dramatic novel Illegal Entry.
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Veteran journalist Terry Wilson fumbles for the words to describe an illegal prize fight in which a man is fatally injured.
Steph Spiers' violent novel demands you attention.
An illegal prize fight goes horribly wrong. A man lies bleeding to death on
the concrete floor of a warehouse in the outskirts of Birmingham. A Sunday
morning pocket-money warm up bout by the contender for the title King of the
Gypsies and a no-hoper ex-miner suddenly becomes a thing of grief and misery
for all involved. But, especially for the fight promoter, Fergal O'Rourke,
who has already laid out Big Irish's £50K. Thus opens this dark thriller
based in the wild urban hinterland of the West Midlands...
Here’s the opening of an unusual and exciting novel by Steph Spiers which will grab hold of your attention and refuse to let it go.
Steph’s novel will be serialised in weekly episodes every Thursday in Open Writing.
