Nicolette Mace: The Raven Siren - Filling the Afterlife from the Underworld: From Out of the Ashes

By C.S. Woolley

Nicolette Mace is a girl that just doesn't fit in. After her mother's death when she could barely walk, Nicolette found all that she had left in the world was her father, Arthur, and her sister, Louise - even they were taken away from her. The only people that she has left are Fred Barlow and Harry Lee, but now even their livelihoods are in jeopardy. Can Siren help save her friends or is she destined to lose them as well?

Nicolette Mace is a private investigator out of necessity, not choice. With her family dead and nowhere else to turn she had to learn to stand on her own two feet and live the only way her father ever taught her to.

"My name is Nicolette Mace, but you might know me as the Raven Siren. I'm a Private Investigator living the 1930s romantic dream in this new and exciting modern age. I keep records of everything that happens; everything I have seen and done. Why? There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophies."

Nicolette Mace: the Raven Siren series (in chronological order)
Beginnings
1. Medusa
2. Siren’s Call
3. Shadow
4. A Shot in the Dark
5. From Out of the Ashes
6. The Murder of Michael Hollingsworth
7. The Case of Mrs. Weldon
8. Hunting the Priest Killer

Siren, Fred & Harry Saga
9. Manhunt
10. A Friend in Need
11. Gangster's Paradise
12. Murder in the First
13. Sabrina
14. Ring of Fire
15. Return of McGregor
16. Last Train Home
17. Til Death do us Part
18. How do you solve a problem like Siren?

Kevin Metis Saga
19. When 3 become 2
20. Ballad of Fallen Angels
21. Case of the Welsh Corgi
22. Murder at the Cricket Club
23. Backtrack
24. Once Upon a Dream
25. Witchcraft
26. Me, Myself and Fred
27. Friends will be Friends

Family Matters Saga
28. Thicker than Water
29. Money
30. The Shortest Day
31. Play it Again
32. Maneater
33. A Hard Day's Night
34. Ghosts
35. Easy Come, Easy Go
36. Dancing in the Moonlight
37. Deceiving Appearances

Midnight Saga
38. Midnight Runner
39. Charlie, Whisky, Tango
40. Double Down
41. New City, New Faces
42. At the Point of a 9mm
43. Siren's Last Stand
44. The Streets of the Living

Derek Long Saga
45. Dire Wolf
46. Red Rag
47. Epic Struggle

Lily & Rose Saga
49. Fred’s Story
50. Rick’s Story
51. Siren’s Story
52. Harry’s Story
53. Reunion

Legacy
54. Lily’s Story
55. Rose’s Story
56. Rick’s Story
57. Harry’s Story
58. Fred’s Story
59. Siren’s Story
60. Epilogue

Other Siren titles
1. Filling the Afterlife from the Underworld: Volume 1
2. Filling the Afterlife from the Underworld: Volume 2
3. Filling the Afterlife from the Underworld: Volume 3
4. Filling the Afterlife from the Underworld: Volume 4
5. Filling the Afterlife from the Underworld: Volume 5

• Language: English
• Publisher: C.S. Woolley
• Release date: Sep 12, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370519521

C.S. Woolley

C.S. Woolley (Caroline Sarah Woolley) was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire and raised in the nearby town of Wilmslow. From an early age she discovered she had a flair and passion for writing. This was fuelled by winning local poetry and short story competitions during her years at Mottram St. Andrews Primary School. During high school, she continued to write and found her time split between acting, writing and her studies. At 14 she began writing novels. University did nothing to change her love of writing. C.S. spent a year reading Law at Manchester Metropolitan University before changing her mind and moving to read English at Hull University. After graduating she moved to Nottingham where she stayed for the cricket at Trent Bridge. She currently lives with her partner, Matt, and their two cats in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 2010, C.S published her first novel, Nicolette Mace – The Raven Siren: The Kevin Metis Saga. Since 2010 she has published books in five series – The Chronicles of Celadmore, The Mysteries of Stickleback Hollow, The Children of Ribe, The Children of Snotingas and Nicolette Mace: The Raven Siren - as well as a series of adapted classics for Foxton Books and a series of modernised Shakespeare and workbooks to help with GCSEs. Her upcoming series include Alpha Sigma, The Children of Danelaw, Dark Hearts,The Children of Ribe Story Books, The Children of Ribe: Tales from Ribe, The Children of Ribe: Ancestors, Yngvar and Reinholdt, Finestra, and The Children of Ribe: Legends. More recently C.S has taken part in charity projects that include producing content for charity books such as Standing by the Watchtower: Volume 1. C.S has also acted in several plays and films including Weekend (2011). Hobbies: horse riding, including show jumping and cross country, Formula 1, tennis, free climbing, singing, boxing, dancing, playing guitar, cricket and is also an avid PC and console gamer. Favourite movies: The Muppet Christmas Carol, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Chisum. Favourite books: Sharpe’s Prey, Silverthorn and the Three Musketeers. Favourite bands: Thin Lizzy, the Darkness and McBusted. For more information please visit: http://www.mightierthanthesworduk.com

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Nicolette Mace:

The Raven Siren

Filling the Afterlife from the Underworld:

From Out of the Ashes

By

C. S. Woolley

A Mightier Than the Sword UK Publication

©2017

Filling the Afterlife from the Underworld:

From Out of the Ashes

Nicolette Mace: The Raven Siren

By c. s. woolley

Cover design by c. s. woolley

Photography by Jared Drake

A Mightier Than the Sword UK Publication

Smashwords Edition

Copyright © c. s. woolley 2017

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publishers. All events in this book are purely fictional and any similarity to real events and real people is coincidental.

To prevent unauthorised copies of this book being made a number of intentional errors have been included.

Also by the same author

Nicolette Mace: The Raven Siren

Medusa

Siren’s Call

Shadow

A Shot in the Dark

The Case of Mrs. Weldon

Hunting the Priest Killer

From Out of the Ashes

Murder in the First

Sabrina

Filling the Afterlife from the Underworld: Volume 1

Filling the Afterlife from the Underworld: Volume 2

Filling the Afterlife from the Underworld: Volume 3

Filling the Afterlife from the Underworld: Volume 4

Derek Long Saga

Lily & Rose Saga

The Children of Ribe

FATE

WAR

WIFRITH

DOUBT

SKÅNE

SHIPWRECKED

FEAR

HOME

Poetry

Standing by the Watchtower: Volume 1

Standing by the Watchtower: Volume 2

Indie Visible: Volume 1

The Children of Snotingas

WYRD

HILD

Shakespeare Simplified

The Merchant of Venice

Box Sets

Rising Empire Trilogy

Shroud of Darkness Trilogy

The Arm Rings of Yngvar Collection

Beginnings

The Kevin Metis Saga

Chronicles of Celadmore

Rising Empire: Part 1

Rising Empire: Part 2

Rising Empire: Part 3

Shroud of Darkness

Lady of Fire

End of Days

When Darkness Falls

The Mysteries of Stickleback Hollow

A Thief in Stickleback Hollow

All Hallows’ Eve in Stickleback Hollow

Mr. Daniel Cooper of Stickleback Hollow

The Day the Circus came to Stickleback Hollow

12 Days of Christmas in Stickleback Hollow

For further information on Nicolette Mace: the Raven Siren please visit:

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Books Adapted by C.S. Woolley for Foxton Books

Level 1 400 Headwords

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle

Anne of Green Gables by L. Maud Montgomery

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Level 2 600 Headwords

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Level 3 900 Headwords

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Pocahontas by Charles Dudley Warner

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Call of the Wild by Jack London

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Nicolette Mace: The Raven Siren –

Filling the Afterlife from the Underworld

Notes from the Case Files of the Raven Siren

From Out of the Ashes

Contents

Insomnia

Police and Thieves

The bartender and the thief

Don’t Speak

Do me a favour

Out on the street

Assassin

Shot through the heart

In the office of the mayor

He didn’t have to be

The things we do for love

Friends of Mine

Break in

Red Alert

The Bakery Alley

Back in Black

Don’t dream it’s over

Insomnia

Walking into my office you might be forgiven for thinking that I had been hosting some form of wild party. A party that involved all the rugby and cricket players in the city descending upon my father’s rather humble accommodation.

Such a party would explain the copious amounts of empty bottles that lay strewn around the place, the empty takeaway containers, and the dark circles that had formed around my eyes.

In truth the mess had nothing to do with drunken sports celebrations. The state of Arthur’s place was down to my own obsession.

I say obsession, but obsession doesn’t even come close to describing what I was currently gripped by. It had been three days since I had last slept – and coincidentally it had been three days since I was released from hospital and not placed in a drug induced slumber.

Though the day was technically only a few hours old, I was already halfway through my first bottle of whisky. I had