As a crime writer it’s something Ive had to imagine countless times. But it didn’t prepare me for what I saw in the water on that cold,overcast dayCrime writers deal in dead bodies. It comes with the territory. In the course of conceiving 16 crime novels, I’ve had to imagine men, and women and children being shot,strangled, run over, and asphyxiated,poisoned, disembowled, and beheaded,tied to a railway line and slit in two, and burned to death. But external a postmortem, or I’ve never seen a dead body in situ. Until final month.
It was an overcast day,the cold wind coming in hard from the north. My son and I were setting off in pursuit of mackerel and sea bass from the local marina. As we slipped away from the pontoon, a couple looking down from the walkway indicated something odd-looking below them. It hung in the water between a couple of moored boats. Could we win a observe?Continue reading...
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