First published in 2014 by Endeavour Press Ltd. Table of Contents Prologue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 Extract from Dying to Meet You by Patricia Scott Prologue The girl’s naked body lay on the windy cliff top, undisturbed by the bluebottles that buzzed and danced around her glassy, bloodshot blue eyes or the noisy sea birds that screeched overhead as the fishing smacks brought in their nets on the beaches below. Nathan Barty, about to start his first day of work experience in the Fish Market, stopped whistling when he tripped over her bare legs and then spilt the tuna sandwiches, and a rosy red apple, from his lunch box into the long grass as he raced full pelt down the winding chalky path into the seaside town of Harcombe. The desk Sergeant behind the Police Station counter listened attentively to Nathan’s first encounter with a dead body; ‘She - she’s lying up there on the cliff top - with no clothes on.
