If Snow Hadn't Fallen (a Lacey Flint short story)

tutoring responsibilities, the university had seen a chance to recoup some of its investment.
    The flagstone path was short. Just five yards through the centre of the knot garden and she’d be at the elaborate front porch. Carriage-style lanterns either side of the door lit the full length of the path. Usually she was glad of them. Tonight she wasn’t so sure.
    Because without them, she probably wouldn’t have seen the trail of fir cones leading from the gate to the door.

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    LIKE THIS, FOR EVER
    COMING SOON!
    Bright red
.
Like rose petals. Or rubies. Or balloons
. Little red droplets
.
    Barney knows the killer will strike again soon. The victim will be another boy, just like him. He will drain the body of blood, and leave it on a Thames beach.
    There will be no clues for detectives Dana Tulloch and Mark Joesbury to find.
    There will be no warning about who will be next.
    There will be no good reason for Lacey Flint to become involved … And no chance that she can stay away.

Also by S. J. Bolton
    Sacrifice
    Awakening
    Blood Harvest
    Now You See Me
    Dead Scared

About the Author
    S. J. Bolton is the author of five critically acclaimed novels:
Sacrifice, Awakening, Blood Harvest, Now You See Me
and
Dead Scared
.
    Sacrifice
was nominated for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel, and voted Top Debut Thriller in the first ever Amazon Rising Stars.
Awakening
won the Mary Higgins Clark award for Thriller of the Year.
    In 2010
Blood Harvest
was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year, and in both 2011 and 2012 S. J. Bolton was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library, an award for an entire body of work, nominated by library users.
    S. J. Bolton lives near Oxford with her husband and young son.

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    IF SNOW HADN’T FALLEN
Version 1.0 Epub ISBN 9781448168408
    First published in Great Britain
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