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THE BUMBLE'S END

made it into the crime charts this week!  

Let's see it there next week as well.

Excerpt from The Bumble's End

SUBTLE CHANGE TO COVER NOW CHRISTMAS IS OVER!
Can you spot what it is?


Excerpt from THE BUMBLE'S END

We surveyed the purple walls and the king size bed with its leopard skin headboard and bed cover. A cat o’nine tails hung from the bedpost.

‘Christ! Talk about coitus interruptus!’ said the Bumble. He sat up in bed resplendent in a white singlet that needed the Daz doorstep challenge. I guess we were it. I threw a Marlboro to him then lit my own.

He stuck the cig in his mouth. ‘Got a light then?’ he said, unabashed by our entrance.

‘Sure,’ I said and strolled over to the bed. I took out the can of lighter fluid and sprinkled it over the bedclothes covering his fat carcass.

‘Hey! Whit the fuck are you doing?’ He attempted to get out of the bed.
I pushed him back and struck a match. ‘Move, and your chestnuts get toasted,’ I said. ‘You almost got me and your brother killed, you fucker! Switching the gold bars and loading the gun with blanks – that your idea of a laugh?’

‘You’re still here aren’t you?’