Patterson Rill - The Other Route Home

By Mark Edwards

Sometimes it's best to avoid the shortcut.
Sometimes you wish you knew what awaits you.
Sometimes you wish you knew how to escape.
Sometimes you wonder if you'll ever survive...
Sometimes you wonder who'll hear your cry for help.
It makes no sense you wonder; it's best if you keep on reading...

_ Stick to the route you know! Please...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Edwards
• Release date: Jun 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781498911795

Mark Edwards

Mark Edwards and Louise Voss met after Louise saw Mark on a TV documentary about aspiring writers, and a writing partnership was born. Their first two thrillers, Killing Cupid and Catch Your Death, were huge hits when the pair self-published them online, becoming the first UK indie authors to reach No. 1 in both the Amazon Kindle and Amazon Fiction charts.

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PROLOGUE

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We’ve got to get Tray, he is hurt!

Calm down; who is Tray?

How did this happen madam? the stumpy looking cop probed as he flipped out his notepad and started writing.

Tray is hurt!  We must go get him now!

Madam, please calm down; we need you to cooperate with us.

Are we going to sit here and let something happen to Tray? she yelled as she stared wildly at the party of cops and cop cars that surrounded her.  Daylight happened approximately forty five minutes before and she really looked odd wearing a red party dress with red heels, black torn fishnet stockings and complementing makeup that began to wear off.

She's gorgeous...

"Just keep away from that room, don't open the door to anyone and

lock your windows – Tight!"

This fictional novel contains the names of characters, places, events and a storyline that exist only in the author's imagination.  Any resemblance to actual events, persons - alive or non-living  would be a coincidence, hence the author is in no way liable.

This publication is created for entertainment and is suitable for readers who are at least twenty years of age.

All Rights Reserved. Reproduction, duplication or copying of any part of this publication in any form or by whatever means is strictly prohibited unless consent is given by the author. The images, texts and illustrations remain the intellectual property of the author.

Copyright 2014©

Mark Edwards

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ONE

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Are you sure about that –cheese burgers at 4:00 am?

I am probably just too tired or maybe it is that I am freaking jealous!

Come on, for what honey?

Sir you are holding up the line; there are dozens of people behind you who need to be served,  the lanky cashier who wore the blue striped shirt along with a blue bow tie interjected while fixing the yellow polygon shaped hat on her head.

Ok madam, you can keep the change, Tray informed, quickly placing the order (though weird it seemed) before briskly exiting the drive-thru.

So this is how you get them to love you- you find some cheap way to offer them cash?

Come on Kaydie, you are speaking babble, I was just being philanthropic; she really needs to add a few pounds, Tray snapped while adjusting the radio’s ambience as the rhythmic progressions of the popular love song ‘I don’t want to, but I want’ started to ooze from the in-car stereo system.

So you like her, don’t you?

Come on Tray, stop acting like you don’t hear me! Kaydie yelled as Tray focused his eyes on the motorway while both hands suddenly became glued to the padded beige staring wheel.

Tray you like her, don’t you?

Like who?

Tray don’t kid with me, you know who I am talking!

And who exactly are you referring to?

That whore – Lisa!  That’s who the heck I am talking about!

Kaydie come on, behave yourself, Lisa is just my secretary; we just danced at the party for about two minutes; there could be nothing up with that.

"Tray, I noticed the look on the little urchin’s face when you held her and danced with her.  Tray did you see the way that crab kept looking over at me as if she owns something that