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Ann Granger

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by That Way Murder Lies


  The notion of buying a house was quite exciting. She’d have to buy some furniture. Perhaps her mother could lend her a few pieces to start her off. The family home was crammed with stuff her parents didn’t use. At the thought of her family her excitement was replaced with a touch of sadness. Her brother had returned to his medical work. She missed Simon. Perhaps it was being a twin that made her feel the absence more. Perhaps it was the knowledge that all she really had was her job. She liked her job and thought, on the whole, she did it well. True, she made the occasional slip-up. Allowing the Stebbingses to see the corpse of their son at the scene had been one of them. But the superintendent had expressed his satisfaction at her handling of the case, now it was closed.

  ‘Well,’ said Jess aloud, ‘it’s as closed as it can be before a trial. Who knows what a jury may decide?’

  She put her Marks and Spencer’s chilled moussaka in the microwave and took the bottle of white wine from the fridge. She poured a glass and raised it in a toast. ‘Cheers! Here’s to crime!’

  The sun was setting over the lake at Overvale. Against the darkening sky a shape appeared, nearing the spot. With a rush of wings it swooped down and landed close to the jetty. Spike settled his feathers, squawked once triumphantly, and slowly and with dignity began to patrol his domain.

  Also by Ann Granger

  Fran Varady crime novels

  Asking For Trouble

  Keeping Bad Company

  Running Scared

  Risking It All

  Watching Out

  Mitchell and Markby crime novels

  Say It With Poison

  A Season For Murder

  Cold In The Earth

  Murder Among Us

  Where Old Bones Lie

  A Fine Place For Death

  Flowers For His Funeral

  Candle For A Corpse

  A Touch Of Mortality

  A Word After Dying

  Call The Dead Again

  Beneath These Stones

  Shades Of Murder

  A Restless Evil

  THAT WAY MURDER LIES. Copyright © 2004 by Ann Granger. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

  www.minotaurbooks.com

  First published in Great Britain by Headline Book Publishing

  eISBN 9781466823723

  First eBook Edition : June 2012

  EAN 978-0312-33827-5

  First St. Martin’s Minotaur Edition: January 2005

 

 

 


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