Danger

By Dal Cecil Runo

After a tourist is murdered at a famous plane wreckage in Iceland, Detective Gulliver Fox is hired to catch the killer. When he arrives at the scene of the crime, local police officers reveal a clear pattern between this and previous murders around the country. Just as Gulliver believes he has uncovered the killer's identity -- things suddenly start getting personal. He must act fast and take serious measures or he might end up arrested or dead.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dal Cecil Runo
• Release date: Oct 31, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393756224

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dANGER​

dANGER​

Dal Cecil Runo

© 2020 Dal Cecil Runo. All rights reserved.

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

To my parents.

Thank you for believing in me

when no one else did.

Contents

Farewell

Uninvited

Friend or Foe

Runaway

’Til It Happens To You

Final Masquerade

I Walk Alone

Nattúra

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Farewell

Iwalk along the lonely black sand shore. Silence reigns, except for the sound of my footsteps, the rising tide and the wind. I'm surrounded by the contrasting blues and whites of broken icebergs, drifting toward the sea. Free….

I see a bigger piece of ice, large enough for me to sit. The sun is up, you went to sleep. You couldn't stop me. Life is back to normal. Beautiful Iceland again in peace. I win. I fear no more.

I reflect on all that has happened, calmly breathing in synchronicity with the rhythm of the waves. All the elements of this place; the fire, the waterfall, the hot springs, the plane wreckage, the ice cave. No one saw it coming. Never underestimate. Never take anything for granted.

It started four summers ago. A house party, with almost every student from the 2005 compulsory school graduates in their Class Reunion after ten years. The place was on fire. Literal flames and smoke suffocated everyone before they could evacuate. It was ruled an accident, but we knew better.

Then on the 13th of December 2016, a bloke died of hypothermia behind a non-touristy waterfall. Alcohol bottles found nearby. It was ruled an accident, or perhaps a suicide. The Hardest Part written in blood, barely visible on a rock not far from the waterfall. Alex Carr. We knew about him, didn't we? The smallest clue, and yet, no one saw.

The next case was even stranger. The remains of a young woman's body found boiled alive at the fumaroles of Hverir in late spring, 2017—Stupid Girls carved in the orange barren ground near that specific pool.