You might not know that I have a short story available on Amazon for free. A Death on the Way to Portsmouth, featuring Violet Harper from my Lady of Ashes series, is a story I wrote and submitted to a contest a few years ago, hoping to be included in an anthology.
The story follows the plucky Victorian undertaker as she travels to Portsmouth, only to find that a dastardly murder has been committed aboard her train.
From the description:
Violet Harper might be fearless when it comes to caring for the dead, but she trembles at the thought of boarding trains-those behemoths of belching smoke and screeching brakes. Nevertheless, she must travel via one of these beasts from Southampton to Portsmouth. The undertaker’s anxiety turns into horror when a fellow passenger is murdered as the train carriage enters a tunnel. Can Violet discover who the murderer is before the train reaches its next stop?
Alas, it was not picked up by the anthology, so I decided to go ahead and publish it myself as a Kindle freebie for readers. If you haven’t read it, here it is.
Download the free Kindle ebook
Although it didn’t work out for inclusion in the anthology, I think it works out much better that I was able to give it away to my readers, don’t you?
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