Amends for the Dead

By Lois Browne

Lonnie Kuhl's high school friend and secret crush, Vonnie Markham is dead, murdered in the dead of night by a burglar. Vonnie spent a year of troubled adolescence with Lonnie's family and he still feels the bond they formed briefly many years ago. The murder case wraps up quickly, and then just as quickly comes undone. Lonnie, with the help of pal Targe Wilkins, follows clues and more dead bodies to find out why Vonnie really died and who killed her,

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lois Browne
• Release date: Sep 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9780992031725

Lois Browne

I've been writing all my life, first in journalism and then in corporate communications. Death on a Dig is my first mystery.I've travelled in the UK, continental Europe, India, Mexico and Central America. Before apartheid was defeated in South Africa, I spent five years in Mozambique as an international volunteer, and I recently volunteered again for six months to work with a small social agency in northern India.Girls of Summer: In Their Own League, my only published non-fiction book, resulted from my work as a researcher with CTV's national public affairs program W5.I live in Toronto, Canada and am focusing now on writing and epublishing mystery fiction.

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Amends for the Dead

A Kuhl/Wilkins Short Story

By Lois Browne

Published by Lois Browne at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 Lois Browne

ISBN 978-0-9920317-2-5

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Lonnie Kuhl had just begun to drift into sleep when he heard a knock on the door. He wasn’t happy about it. Sleep didn’t come so easily that he could afford to have it interrupted. And besides, at this time of night, the news was never good.

His instincts were right. Targe Wilkins, one of the high school friends Lonnie had looked up when he returned to his home town, brought bad news. Vonnie Markham, who for a year had lived with Lonnie’s family, had been murdered.

Lonnie hesitated a moment before reaching for his trousers. Details?

Targe told him Vonnie was found about midnight in her house, apparently killed by a burglar. Targe didn’t know anything more, but he’d keep his ears open and be in touch.

When Lonnie arrived at the address, he found that one of the detectives was also an old acquaintance. Frank Pirelli came over to where he was standing on the perimeter of the crime scene.

To the uniform officer guarding the tape he said, "Let him