The Dame Who Loved Me

By Shantnu Tiwari

A beautiful dame walks into Royce’s office.

He just knows she’s trouble.

Especially since she asks him to investigate her husband’s disappearance.

You see, Royce killed her husband.

A detective thriller story with the hint of the supernatural.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shantnu Tiwari
• Release date: Nov 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781540147509

Book preview

Many years ago, when Detective Royce was travelling in India, he found himself in the unfortunate position of being dead. Murdered, to be precise.

But he made a contract with the Goddess of Death, which allowed him to return. This contract is what drives him now.

Because he supposedly fails every single case he takes on, he’s known as the Defeated Detective.

Chapter 1

Have I ever told you about the time I killed a man?

It was ten years ago.

The rain wouldn’t stop that day.

It went pitter-patter on the soft forest ground.

I had to fight to remember I was in summertime England, not in monsoon India.

The sound of the rain was all I heard.

The rain hit my skin. It was warm, even though the night was cold. Or maybe my body was warm. Warm from all the running, from all the adrenaline being pumped in, warm from the anticipation of what my body knew I needed to do.

I finally caught up with him. It was inevitable. He couldn’t have hid from me forever.

He knew it too, which was why he was standing in a clearing in the forest.

I saw him before I smelled it. He was smoking a cigarette, and I could see the light from several hundred feet away.

When I