Cat Cross Their Graves
A Joe Grey Mystery
Chapter One
Up the Molena Point hills where the village cottages stood crowded together, and
their back gardens ended abruptly at the lip of the wild canyon,
a row of graves lay hidden. Concealed beneath tangled weeds
and sprawling overgrown geraniums, there was no stone to
mark the bodies. No one to remember they were there save
one villager, who kept an uneasy silence. Who nursed a vigil of
dread against the day the earth would again be disturbed and
the truth revealed. On winter evenings the shadow of the tall,
old house struck down across the graves like a long black
arrow, and from the canyon below, errant winds sang to the
small, dead children.
There had been no reports for a dozen years of unexplained
disappearances along the central California ... read full excerpt from Cat Cross Their Graves ebook
