The Church Murders: A stand-alone thriller (Greek Island Mysteries Book 2) by Luke Christodoulou

Author:Luke Christodoulou [Christodoulou, Luke]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: GreekIslandMysteries
Published: 2015-03-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

I awoke drained. Even the gossamer hotel pillow could not prevent my neck from aching. We had spent the previous day processing the crime scene in the cave. Lights were set up, bats were forced to stay outside and we worked until the clock struck three in the morning. Ioli looked worse off than me. She always took pride in not being one of those women who act helpless during those days of the month. But now, every muscle in her body vibrated beneath her skin. Her period, once a steady flow for a couple of days, seemed to drag on and on. On top of all, her throat felt sore and her nose gave the first signs of a cold.

Today was not going to be any easier.

While we were in the cave, Constable Christina visited the victim’s house. Everything looked normal, as normal as an art teacher’s house could be, but the stench from upstairs, smelled anything but normal. The whole house reeked of death. With her gun extended in front of her, Christina slowly walked up the stairs. She stood in shock, having pushed open the door of the master bedroom. Sitting up in bed, dressed in new clothes, lay a woman’s corpse. A very old corpse. Blood had not flown through her for months; her dark purple skin had disintegrated to the bone. Eyes and hair were long gone and her remaining nails were ready to fall off.

A video recorder set up, all alone on the bedside table. Calm as she could be in such a situation, Christina wore her gloves and picked up the device. Moments later, she had regretted pressing play. Alexis Callis had filmed all his sexual encounters with his dead companions. Christina’s stomach could not handle anymore. She ran to the toilet and released her fish and mashed potatoes. The video kept on playing. An over excited Alexis Callis came all over the corpse’s face, gave it a gentle kiss and carried the body away.

‘You were good, baby! Another one for my yard collection!’ he joyfully said.

Yes, today was not going to be any easier.

Today, we and the local police were going to dig up the old man’s garden. Soon, we were going to be faced with all the bodies he did not return.

The uncomfortable silence broken only by the sound of our shovels. No one spoke. Maybe, we were all too afraid of losing our breakfast in front of strangers.

Ioli dug away. She seemed the toughest, yet her insides screamed in disgust. It sickened her to the core that someone would steal a body from its resting ground and violate it in such a gruesome manner.

We pulled twelve bodies out of the soil, most tangled up amongst tomatoes and carrots. Eight women, three men and a teenager. The teenager was the last straw for Ioli. She cursed as she walked far away from the scene and headed down to the beach. She sat on a large rock and let the tears loose.

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