Silent Witness (A Dylan Scott Mystery) (28 page)
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Authors: Shirley Wells
She went to her purse, grabbed a fifty-pence piece and dropped it into his hand. “You always were cheap.”
She grabbed his hand and led him up the stairs, leaving the newsreader to talk to the empty kitchen.
“A body, believed to be that of James Tinsley, a man wanted by Lancashire CID in connection with the murder of his father, Victor Tinsley, has been found at Coniston Water. Police are not treating the death as suspicious.”
For further adventures with our stalwart sleuth, check out the first two Dylan Scott mysteries, available now.
Presumed Dead
Dylan Scott has problems. Dismissed from the police force for assaulting a suspect, he has no job, his wife has thrown him out and—worse luck—his mother has moved in. So when Holly Champion begs him to investigate her mother’s disappearance from the dreary Lancashire town of Dawson’s Clough, he can’t say no. Dylan’s inquiries turn up plenty of potential suspects—and he soon finds that one sleepy town can keep a lot of secrets.
Dead Silent
Ten months ago, Samantha Hunt set off for work…and was never seen again. Dylan Scott wants to believe the young woman’s alive—and her father, his client, is desperate to find his missing daughter before he dies of cancer. But as usual not everything is as it seems in sleepy Dawson’s Clough.
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Shirley was born and raised in the Cotswolds, where her headmaster wrote on her school report—
Shirley is content to dream her life away.
Years later—as an adult living in Cyprus—it dawned on her that this wasn’t necessarily a bad thing and that fellow dreamers, in the guise of fiction writers, had been getting away with it for centuries.
A move to the Orkney island of Hoy followed and, during the twelve years she spent there, she wrote short stories as well as full-length romantic fiction for UK women’s magazines.
She’s now settled in Lancashire, where the Pennines provide the inspiration and setting for her popular mystery novels. She and her husband share their home with an ever-changing selection of deranged pets, who often insist on cameo roles in Shirley’s novels.
When she isn’t writing, Shirley loves reading (anything and everything), listening to live music, watching TV, eating chocolate and drinking whisky—though not necessarily at the same time. She’s also a season ticket holder at Burnley Football Club and can often be seen in the biting wind and pouring rain cheering on her favourite team.
And she’s still content to dream her life away.
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ISBN: 978-1-4268-9334-6
Copyright © 2012 by Shirley Wells
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