The Moon Was Shining Bright When They Killed Me: The Defeated Detective

By Shantnu Tiwari

The story starts with Royce being shot in the head.

 

As he digs his way out of his grave, he tries to remember how he got into this mess.

 

A supernatural crime story starring the Defeated Detective

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shantnu Tiwari
• Release date: May 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393550525

Book preview

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The moon was shining bright, a sweet wind was blowing, and a few nightingales were singing in the trees. It was a sweet night to be out on a romantic walk, a bottle of red wine in hand, talking poetry with your beloved.

Instead, I was digging my own grave.

The movies lie to you. Digging a grave is hard work. Several hours’ work, I’d say. With at least two or three people.

Sweat crawled down my shirt, like irritating ants, but I couldn’t wipe it because if I stopped digging, my captors would hit me with the butt of their rifles.

I don’t know how I long I worked. It certainly felt like hours. And all I had to show for it was a shallow grave not deep enough to bury a bunny rabbit.

But it was good enough for my captors. That’s enough, they said.

Let me say it one more time, I started to speak. You are making a mistake.

They pointed the shotgun at my face and shot me point blank.

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The hard cold ground.

Soil in my mouth, soil in my nose.

Another dead body thrown on top of me. Its blood flowing down my favourite shirt, ruining it. I may have been dead, but I was still vain.

Someone picked up my body and threw it another grave. A