The Finding Machine: A 1990s British Cozy Mystery with a Sci-Fi Twist (An Alex Martin Cozy Mystery) by Lucy Lyons

Author:Lucy Lyons [Lyons, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twist House Books
Published: 2023-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

Back home, I log onto my personal emails. I’ve kept my old, business email on archive for reference, as all my agency communication is there.

Another six emails managed to slip in before Antony shut everything down for the last time.

Four are requests to find lost pets, inspired by the article in The Courier. The fifth email is impossible to ignore.

TO THE FINDER

Beware your ignorance. YOU meddle in realms of which you know NOTHING! Every time you reach into the blackness, the blackness reaches BACK. Only a fool invites the darkness. Bailey the Seer divines to Protect, call 0908 SEERS for life changing advice.

Is it just me, or are the messages getting darker?

Despite the advice Cheryl gave me regarding mediums and their ilk and Antony’s no-nonsense bluntness about where they can shove their auras, I worry that the finding machine has opened a door into a different, darker world. However crazy it sounds, there is an undeniable mystery to the way it works. I’m no scientist, but I’m pretty sure there isn’t a branch of physics that can explain how it locates the living and the dead from photographs. Cheryl suggested I get an engineer to take a look at it, but who on earth would I ask? Where would I find someone suitably qualified?

Antony thinks it could be military. But it’s not like I can walk up to my local military base and say, ‘Hi! My name’s Alex. Have you got a scientist in there who can have a look at this for me and tell me how it works? My dad made it years ago using bits of an old TV. It can find anyone in the world, whether they’re living or dead. Be careful though, it might be nuclear. Oh, and can I have it back when you’re finished?’

It’s bad enough using something I don’t understand, without feeling like other people have a window into my soul. Bailey the Seer, Mystic Miriam, Psychics Inside Your Head – they’re desperate for me to contact them.

Should I ring one of them? I go back and forth between yes and no like a pendulum. Eventually, I delay resolving my dilemma by opening my final email.

To The Finder,

My name is Mr Bevin. I saw your article in the Courier.

Jason, my teenage son, has been missing since January. He has suffered from panic-attacks and delusions since his early teens. His condition took a definite turn for the worse at Christmas, when he stopped taking his medication without telling me. He locked himself in his room with the internet, listening and watching I know not what. His paranoia grew to such an extent that he started treating me with extreme suspicion. He thought I was part of a strange government conspiracy.

He ran away early in the New Year. If I was in better health, I would be out on the streets searching for him, but I have a lung-condition that prevents me walking without assistance. My wife, God bless her, passed away recently from cancer, which I fear may have triggered Jason’s decline.

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