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    The Empty Part of the Grave

    By Lindsay Tomlinson

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    ‘Queenie’ Mab is an ex-inmate of the notorious Charity Island prison, currently employed as a poorly-paid trouble-shooter for the Silbury transnational company. She cheerfully accepts the opportunity to make some extra money when security officer Ezekiel Rivers of the rival Williams Corporation offers her and her companion Lump some freelance work accompanying a party up to the remote highlands. The client is Rachel Zampigli, travelling to the backwoods with her uncle to witness the recovery of her father’s remains from a mass grave from a land-clearance massacre fifteen years previously.

    Mab discovers she has already met the uncle many years ago when they were both involved in an attempt to avoid being sent to Charity Island. Faced with his current dislike of ex-Islanders, locals who do not want the unhappy past stirred up, and other unwelcome discoveries to be made in the distant woodlands, every penny of her pay is going to be earned the hard way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLindsay Tomlinson
    Release dateNov 12, 2012
    ISBN9781301494859
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    Lindsay Tomlinson

    My novels are futuristic and science-fiction stories. Some are set in the near future, in a world not all that different to our own, while others are set in a much more distant arena, involving any combination of space-stations, terra-formed planets, genetically-modified soldiers, aliens and the odd convenient war or two, but still dealing with people who need to make a living to keep a roof over their head and food on the table.In short, they are a collection of individual tales about people who, when it comes down to it, are just having a bad day.Visit my website for free short stories about some of the characters in my books.

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