Chapters (58)
- Cover
- Dedication
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-one
- Twenty-two
- Twenty-three
- Twenty-four
- Twenty-five
- Twenty-six
- Twenty-seven
- Twenty-eight
- Twenty-nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-one
- Thirty-two
- Thirty-three
- Thirty-four
- Thirty-five
- Thirty-six
- Thirty-seven
- Thirty-eight
- Thirty-nine
- Forty
- Forty-one
- Forty-two
- Forty-three
- Forty-four
- Forty-five
- Forty-six
- Forty-seven
- Forty-eight
- Forty-nine
- Fifty
- Fifty-one
- Acknowledgements
- An Eastbourne Murder Mystery
- Canelo Crime
- About the Author
- Also by Sheila Bugler
Dee listened to his footsteps, crunching over the shingle, as he walked around the side of the house towards the deck. She thought about standing up and going inside. Closing the doors and blinds, and not answering if he knocked at the back door. But she already knew she wasn’t going to do that. Because despite everything she’d tried to tell herself over the last six months, she still missed him. And when he finally appeared around the corner, a bottle of wine in his hand and a stupid grin on his face, she pulled out the chair beside her and motioned for him to join her.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to my lovely agent, Laura Longrigg; the amazing team at Canelo – Louise Cullen, Francesca Riccardi, Nicola Piggott, Siân Heap and Miranda Ward; my fellow crime writers Lorraine Mace, Marion Todd and Chris Curran for keeping me sane in times of crisis! A big shout-out to book blogging community who do so much to support and promote authors. Thank you Chris Simmons for just being fabulous in so many different ways and continuing to be my friend even when I disappear off the radar for months at a time. Thanks also to Maureen Webb for being such a meticulous reader! Finally, a very special mention for the brilliant group of people who run the UK Crime Book Club – you guys have created something very special. Your book group is a wonderful online community for all lovers of crime fiction. I am privileged to be part of it.
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About the Author
Sheila Bugler grew up in a small town in the west of Ireland. After studying Psychology at University College Galway (now called NUI Galway) she left Ireland and worked as an EFL teacher, travelling to Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland and Argentina.
She is the author of a series of crime novels featuring DI Ellen Kelly. The novels are set in South East London, an area she knows and loves.
She now lives in Eastbourne, on the beautiful East Sussex coast. Eastbourne is the location for her series of crime novels featuring investigative journalist Dee Doran.
When she’s not writing, Sheila does corporate writing and storytelling, she runs creative writing courses, is a tutor for the Writers Bureau and is a mentor on the WoMentoring programme. She reviews crime fiction for crimesquad.com and she is a regular guest on BBC Radio Sussex.
She is married with two children.
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