The Last Post

By BK Duncan

A short story introducing the “wonderful heroine” May Keaps, a World War I ambulance driver turned detective (Andrew Taylor, author of The Ashes of London).
 
In April 1918, May Keaps is a twenty-year-old ambulance driver stationed at the front. As if transporting hideously wounded soldiers, sleep deprivation, and constant shell bombardment weren’t enough, she becomes unwittingly entangled in the untimely death of a young captain, Tobias Fairfax.
 
Newly arrived in Northern France, he was found with a discharged pistol by his side; rumors on the battlefield were that it wasn’t an accident and he had taken the coward’s way out.

Whatever the explanation, Tobias left a dangerous legacy that puts May in the line of fire. But she is not the only one with a reason to uncover the truth. And in a world where life can be extinguished in the blink of an eye, May might regret her search for answers . . .
 
Previously published as Faith’s Reward, The Last Post is the introduction to the May Keaps mystery series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Nov 11, 2017
• ISBN: 9781913682675

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The Last Post

The Last Post

The Haunting Introduction to The May Keaps Series

B. K. Duncan

Bloodhound Books

Copyright © 2017 B.K Duncan

The right of B.K. Duncan to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by her in accordance Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in 2017 by Bloodhound Books

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All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Contents

Also by B. K. Duncan

The Last Post

Foul Trade

Found Drowned

Also by B. K. Duncan

The Haunting May Keeps Series

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Foul Trade ( Book 1)

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Found Drowned ( Book2)

The Last Post

22nd April 1918

‘Will you do it for me? Please… there isn’t anyone else I can ask.’

They were sitting in the hospital wardroom, the rain pinging off the corrugated iron above their heads, the weak light from the single bulb flickering. Rachel had handed May a pocket diary, its shagreen cover rusty with blood.

‘Tobias said one of the poems had been written for me.’ Rachel’s voice was thick with unshed tears. ‘Perhaps you could read that?’

May’s trousers scratched at her thighs. Rachel’s request seemed out of