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    Blood Red
    Blood Red
    Blood Red
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    Blood Red

    By Pamela Swyers

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    This short story introduces Iowa detective Callie Worth as she solves a bloody mystery in small-town Macy, Iowa. All is not as it seems but perseverance and a couple of K-9s help get the job done.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPamela Swyers
    Release dateMay 21, 2016
    ISBN9781311704252
    Blood Red
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    Pamela Swyers

    Pam lives with her husband Bill in Gwinnett County, Georgia. She is the mother of three grown children and has dabbled in creative writing since she could hold a pen. Pam has written poetry, children’s stories and dramatic scripts but her passion and calling is penning fictional novels. Pam currently writes full time and has seven books in print, with more on the way. She can often be found toodling around NE Atlanta, doing book-signings and making appearances when she’s not working hard on her computer. Pam is a professional member of the Georgia Writers Association.

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      Blood Red - Pamela Swyers

      Blood Red

      by Pamela Swyers

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental.

      Blood Red

      Copyright 2016 by Pamela Swyers

      www.pamelaswyers.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

      Published by Swyers Publishing

      www.swyerspublishing.com

      May 2016

      Smashwords Edition

      It tickled, the drip of the rain going down the back of my neck. The storm had caught me unaware out here on this street in the middle of God-forsaken nowhere.

      The day had started early with a double latte from the corner coffee house. I'd been out for three days straight, me and about fifty others, walking through fields, slogging through creeks and mud and muck, and then the rain. God, this rain.

      It had all started when I got the call four days ago. A man had gone missing. Twenty years old, worked for his dad at the family-owned

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