The Last Murder at the end of the World

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As requested, I have compiled a list of people whose lives, or deaths, will be necessary for your plan to succeed. Watch them carefully. They all have a part to play in what’s coming.

THE INVESTIGATORS

Emory

Clara, Emory’s daughter

THEIR FAMILY

Matis, Emory’s grandfather

Seth, Emory’s father

Jack, Emory’s husband, deceased

Judith, Emory’s mother, deceased

THE SCIENTISTS

Niema Mandripilias

Hephaestus Mandripilias

Thea Sinclair

VILLAGERS OF CONSEQUENCE

Hui, Clara’s best friend

Magdalene, Emory’s best friend

Ben, newest arrival to the village

Adil, Magdalene’s grandfather

PROLOGUE

‘Is there no other way?’ asks a horrified Niema Mandripilias, speaking out loud in an empty room.

She has olive skin, and a smudge of ink on her small nose. Her grey hair is shoulder length, and her eyes are strikingly blue, with flecks of green. She looks to be around fifty, and has done for the last forty years. She’s hunched over her desk, lit by a solitary candle. There’s a pen in her trembling hand, and a confession beneath it that she’s been trying to finish for the last hour.

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