Cover Reveal: The Killer on the Heath by Karen J. Mossman

Cover Reveal: The Killer on the Heath by Karen J. Mossman

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“Because everyone is not wired the same,” Seb had told me. “Some people think what they are doing is okay. Plinth enjoyed the power it gave him. Being brought up by parents who didn’t give a damn and were probably cruel to the boy. It set him up for the man he would become, and the man he thought it was okay to be.”

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“You can stop that right now!” A shrill voice crashed into us, throwing us apart guiltily. His mother was standing in the doorway looking at us, and for a fraction of a second her eyes were on my chest. Once more she captured me in a compromising position. I felt like a child being caught doing something I shouldn’t. What is it with this woman? Couldn’t she have just waited until we returned? For pity’s sake!

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Turning, I gazed through the dirty window, and something caught my eye. I stopped and stared as I fingered her scarf. “What? What is it?” he asked, suddenly alert to my stillness. “I think she is here.” “You think?” Seb stepped towards me. Something has been stopping me from seeing as clearly as I usually do. “You searched the back garden?” “Well, yes, you can see what we saw.” I stared, unable to draw myself away for a moment. It was an aura, a presence, like a wisp of smoke or steam, but it wasn’t just that. Something hung in the air outside. Seb was watching me, I thought of Pedro and with clarity and realised it was him that had stopped me sensing Chantelle. The twins were too alike. Too close to each other. His aura shielded hers.