The Wily Witness: A Gathering Storm Short Story

By Marlow Kelly

Probationary FBI Agent Finn Callaghan is having a bad day. It's his second day in the field, and he's stuck doing his partner's filing. A teenage boy, Noah Lewis, is arrested for stealing five hundred thousand dollars in diamonds, and Finn is convinced of his innocence. When evidence goes missing and an eccentric old woman turns up claiming to have witnessed the robbery, Finn can't help but get involved. 

Can Finn prove Noah is a gullible patsy or will the youngster be charged with grand larceny in the second degree? 

Finn Callaghan is a character from the author's full-length The Gathering Storm Series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marlow Kelly
• Release date: Apr 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9780995230132

Marlow Kelly

After being thrown out of England for refusing to drink tea, Marlow Kelly made her way to Canada where she found love, a home and a pug named Max. She also discovered her love of storytelling. Encouraged by her husband, children and let’s not forget Max, she started putting her ideas to paper. Her need to write about strong women in crisis drives her stories.  

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The Wily Witness

A Gathering Storm Short Story

By Marlow Kelly

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

The Wily Witness

A Gathering Storm Short Story

Published by Viceroy Press

COPYRIGHT 2017 by Marlow Kelly

All rights reserved.

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

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ISBN 978-0-9952301-3-2

Cover art by Marlow Kelly

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FBI Headquarters New York City, New York

8 a.m.

Finn glanced at the huge stack of files on his desk. He had a degree in criminology, ten years experience with the military police, top of his class at Quantico, and he was stuck doing filing in a world that was supposed to be going paperless.

Special Agent Nathan Levenson, Finn’s mentor and partner, strong-armed a gangly teenager around the grey, chest-high cubicle walls that divided the twentieth floor of the Major Crimes Division.

I didn’t do it. I swear. Anna... I was there to see Anna, the kid whimpered, his face pale.

Don’t you know it’s a criminal offense to lie to a federal agent? Levenson shoved him into a chair across the aisle from Finn’s desk.

The youth fell silent, staring at the ground. He squirmed in his seat, but with his hands cuffed behind him, he couldn’t seem to get comfortable. Eventually, he leant