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    Under Dark Skies

    By John Moralee

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    Under Dark Skies is a collection of five crime short stories.It includes:

    The Good Samaritan – an Australian trucker soon wishes he had not stopped for two people on a lonely road (dark suspense, horror)  
    The Pledge – a college student encounters a dangerous secret society
    The Enigma of Lucy Ash – a beautiful woman returns home with tragic consequences (noir, murder mystery, crime drama)
    A Deadly Prelude – a music producer has to make a deadly decision when he discovers a new artist (crime drama)
    The New Boss – DCI Lisa Boone investigates the drowning deaths of three young people in a Welsh town (mystery/detective)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGenuine Placebo Publishing
    Release dateNov 21, 2016
    ISBN9781540124845
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    Under Dark Skies
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    John Moralee

    John Moralee is the author of the Rhode Island murder mystery novel Acting Dead, the British zombie apocalypse thriller Journal of the Living, and the comic fantasy tale Crowning Achievements: The Legend of King Arthur - as well as over two-hundred short stories. He lives in the UK, where his fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies including The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories, Clockwork Cairo: Egyptian Steampunk, Visions III-V, Crimewave, and the British Fantasy Society's magazine. John Moralee's short story collections include Bloodways (horror), The Bone Yard and Other Stories (horror), The Quick and the Dread (horror), Dead and Gone (crime), The Good Soldier (contemporary fiction) and The Tomorrow Tower (science fiction).

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