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EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT:
“My God that’s horrid.” Jamie took a step backwards. “Fancy being
murdered on your wedding day. It’s meant to be the happiest day of your life.”
An arm of metal was clamped around the woman’s neck, her body dangled
beneath, being pushed back and forth in the strong breeze. Her white dress
billowed out around her, splattered with blood and dirt.
“Well, we know for sure she wasn’t killed using the gibbet. Half the
parts are missing and these wounds on her neck and shoulder look more like stab
wounds,” Carl spoke aloud as he wrote bits down in his notebook.
“Why go to the trouble of bringing a dead woman all the way up here?
Anyone could have seen.”
Carl shrugged.
“There’s not much more we can do here,” Danny said. “Take the best
photos you can, call someone to take her down to the morgue and see if you can
find someone to identify what made those wounds. Jamie and I will go to the
wedding, see what we can find out from there.”
The
wedding reception looked more like a wake. It was clear from the second they
walked through the door that everyone knew what had happened.
A deathly silence fell over the room as people noticed their presence.
“I’m Detective Sergeant Daniel Brookes and this is Detective Inspector
Jamie Stanley. We are looking into the supposed death of Mrs Julie Leanne
Hayes. Is Mr Hayes here? We’d like to speak to him.” Danny stood on the stage
where half an hour earlier a band had been in full swing.
“He’s in the toilet. I don’t think this is the best time to speak to
him. At least wait until he comes out.”
Danny nodded. “Well, is Bradley Stance here? We could do with talking to
him too.”
Most faces looked blank but a few seemed to recognise the name.
“Haven’t seen him here,” one person shouted.
“Don’t think he was invited. Don’t know why he would’ve been,” someone
said from the back of the hall.
“Not seem him for years,” a girl joined in.
“No one mentions him anymore,” a boy near the front of the stage said.
“I’m here,” Bradley shouted.
Everyone went silent and stared at Bradley. After a few seconds people
started muttering to one another.
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When a bride is stabbed to death
on her wedding day, DI Jamie Stanley and the team are called in. They
immediately pluck three suspects from the wedding party of over two hundred
guests. Why would anyone want to kill a bride on her wedding day?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Katie was born in 1996 and spent
the first sixteen years of her life living in Reading , England
Katie currently works part time in
order to support her writing dream. She spends a large amount of time locked
away in a room upstairs working on her latest novel and when she isn't doing
that she is either reading or walking the family dog.
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