Cruel as the Grave

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

  ‘Next time, you can bake it in your oven. It didn’t feel all that small on the way out.’ Now her smile was quizzical. ‘Don’t you want to know what we got? I made your dad promise not to tell you. And I made him make Lydia promise as well.’

  ‘He didn’t. He was as good as his word,’ said Slider. Then he looked.

  ‘What do you think we should call her?’ Joanna asked.