The Bodies In The Water (A DI Ellis Yorkshire Crime Thriller Book 10) by Oliver Davies

Author:Oliver Davies [Davies, Oliver]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

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The man was ready, more ready than ever, to find himself a new sister. He’d given himself time to recover over the loss of Alannah—Mia—but now it was time to move on and find her replacement. It had been awful to lose Mia, but he couldn’t mourn her forever. He knew that once he had a new sister, all of his consuming, crippling sadness would go away again. He’d be filled with nothing but joy. They’d be able to create fond memories, grow up together, and make up for lost time.

However, the job of locating a sister hadn’t been as easy as he’d hoped it would be.

The man couldn’t just pick any random woman to be his sister. No, she had to be perfect. Just like Mia had been. Mia could have been a clone of Alannah, and now the man was struggling to find another duplicate of her. Everything with Mia had been incredible, and yet he had to lose his temper and ruin things!

He'd rushed things with Mia, he could see that now. She’d barely been with him a day and he was dragging her to the lake for a swim like old times. He hadn’t given her the time to get to know him, to accept her new role as his sister, so of course she’d freaked out and tried to escape.

Stupid, bloody fool! the man chided himself. This time you’ll have to be patient.

He hadn’t been back to Ampleforth since he’d taken Mia. He wanted to avoid the likely police presence attempting to locate her. Instead, he’d stayed in his family’s old, abandoned cabin not too far from the lake, and tried to come up with a new plan.

The man knew he couldn’t look for another sister in Ampleforth—that would have been foolish. Instead, he travelled around various areas close to both Ampleforth and Gormire Lake to search. Most of these trips had been a waste of time. He’d looked all around Thirsk—the village where Gormire Lake was—and found nothing but pretentious women who were either too old or far too full of themselves. He then went to Thirlby village, an area not too far from Thirsk, and found that place just as much, if not more disappointing, than Thirsk. The women there had a variety of different hair in dyed colors, which they wore like fashion statements, but his dead sister had never tampered with her hair. No. She had appreciated her natural, authentic beauty and never tried to alter it.

He’d have lost hope if he didn’t have so many options.

Lucky him, there were so many villages surrounding the lake. He went to Gilling East and found nothing but a sea of blond women. He went to Oswaldkirk, and lingered outside of their village hall to see nothing but women above the age of forty. In Kilburn, women were in short supply, so it would have been too risky to take someone. From there, the man went to Olstead where, for one shining moment, he

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