The Everpink Slaughter

By Raymund Eich

Twenty genetically engineered pigs. Throats slit.

One deputy. Fighting to bring justice to his home town.

One bitterly cold winter night, an assailant slits the throats of twenty genetically engineered pigs. Deputy Matt Schaffer searches for clues in the snow and down the quiet streets of his sleepy town, while pressured on all sides. The sheriff seeking reelection. The giant biotechnology company from whose labs came the pigs. Small farmers desperate for new income. Local power brokers out to keep themselves on top. His son, living with his ex-wife in the big city a hundred miles away.

Can Matt bring justice to a desperate small town?

And peace to himself?

You'll love this wintry mystery because it gives hope that justice will win in the end.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: CV-2 Books
• Release date: Jul 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311401601

Raymund Eich

Raymund Eich files patent applications, earned a Ph.D., won a national quiz bowl championship, writes science fiction and fantasy, and affirms Robert Heinlein's dictum that specialization is for insects.In a typical day, he may talk with university biology and science communication faculty, silicon chip designers, patent attorneys, epileptologists, and rocket scientists. Hundreds of papers cite his graduate research on the reactions of nitric oxide with heme proteins.He lives in Houston with his wife, son, and daughter.

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THE EVERPINK SLAUGHTER

Raymund Eich

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people, living or dead, or any known events is purely coincidental.

THE EVERPINK SLAUGHTER

© 2015 Raymund Eich

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The farmer's dogs trotted alongside as the sheriff department cruiser rolled down the asphalt driveway between the house and the barn. When the car slowed and stopped, the dogs barked sporadically, watching one another from the corners of their eyes. After the gasoline engine chuttered to silence, their barking was the only sound for what seemed to be miles of the cold morning. 

Deputy Matt Schaffer climbed out. Hush, he told the dogs. His breath steamed in the dry air. The dogs grew quieter. Matt held out the back of his gloved hand to the nearest one, a neutered yellow mutt. The dog leaned forward, eyes wide, nostrils snuffling, until something near the barn caught his attention and he trotted toward it.

"Morning, Matt.