Cadaver Crime Unit: Death's Door

By T. Harrogate

Two dogs, Oreo and Trooper, are trained to find bodies in unusual places. They are part of a team that is unique. Watch as they unravel their very first case. They will be joined by their owner who will also go on a journey of his own.
This very first book in the series will take you on a journey in their home county of Yorkshire. They might have to travel to find their clues. Why have these people been killed? There's also an international connection, but how are they involved? What is the motive? Its all to do with the keys and a trap door. Will Oreo and Trooper do their jobs well? There will be many twists and turns.
Can you guess who the guilty person is before you get to the end? Who? What? Why? Is the key the link? Or is it just a red herring to lead the detectives the wrong way. Read to find out what journey the detective is going on.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Feb 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781398427860

T. Harrogate

T. Harrogate is a Yorkshire-born lass. She moved to Ireland in 1994 when she was fourteen and a half years old. She married an Irish man and still lives in County Cork. She works in a maternity hospital in Ireland as a healthcare assistant. She enjoys her job and being part of a rewarding team. She has written a number of crime stories that have been published by Austin Macauley. This is her very first children’s book.

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About the Author

T. Harrogate lives in County Cork and was born in Harrogate in Yorkshire. She works as a healthcare assistant. She really enjoys her job. She also enjoys writing murder mystery stories. The author started writing when she was sixteen but never did anything with the stories back then. She loves writing. This is her second book.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to:

My husband, Joe, for believing in me. To my past dog, Trooper, who was a great German Shepherd and to our past dog who was a black and white Newfoundland named Oreo.

Thank you for giving me the inspiration to write this book and just for the unconditional love that all dogs give. Dedicated to all dogs worldwide.

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T. Harrogate 2022

The right of T. Harrogate to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.

ISBN 9781398427846 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781398427860 (ePub e-book)

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First Published 2022

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Acknowledgement

I would like to thank my husband, Joe, for encouraging me to do something with my books. I would also like to thank the unconditional love that dogs give. I would also like to thank all the staff working with Austin Macauley Publishers for all their help. I would like to give my appreciation to Austin Macauley Publishers for accepting my second book which is the first in a series.

Introduction

This book is not about real events. It is solely based on fiction and is about two different types of dogs that live with their master who is a detective. The dogs help in different ways to find victims or locate bodies or body parts on land and in water. They have been trained in these areas of detection. In a unique way. They have gone through intensive training. No other dogs have been trained in this special way in this country. They live in Yorkshire County. They have a unique way of communicating with each other as well. They cover the whole country, not just Yorkshire. Cadaver Crime unit.

In this first book in the series, there will be a lot of body parts found in different locations. Twists and turns too.

A perpetrator that even the crime unit didn’t suspect.

Chapter One

It’s Cold Outside

Everywhere is covered in a blanket of white, the only thing you can see is the footprints from the children playing in the snow. They are busy building snowmen and having snowball fights unaware that there is a disaster looming not so far away.

Meanwhile in Number twenty Trifle Street, Oreo is pacing up and down just inside the door. Her master thinks she wants to go out and join in the fun. He is wrong, she knows what she needs. She is doing her level best to get her master to take notice of her. Trooper also knows there is something amiss. He tells her there is no way he is going out into that bitter cold. He is lovely and comfortable just lying beside the fire.

Oreo is a black and white Newfoundland. She had been put through some special training for her job. Trooper is a black and gold German Shepherd. He also had been put through highly specialised training for his job.

Trooper could see that Oreo was not going to settle so he decided he would have to get his master’s attention as well. Eventually, their master decided to open the door. The minute the door was opened, Oreo ran off to where the children were. She barked and barked at them and started pulling their scarves as if to pull them to one side. Oreo’s owner was puzzled at first as to why was she making sure they all came out of that what he thought was a field. The children came down as far as Jeffrey Oreo’s owner and asked him what was wrong with his dog. He told them to wait where they were, he would go and investigate what she was up to. It turned out where she had put the pile of snow was the area where the children had been playing and there were patches of ice and if they had fallen through, they would have ended in the river. They thought they were playing in a field but the fact that you couldn’t tell where the field started or ended meant they had put themselves in danger without realising it. The children all gave Oreo a hug as they left to go home and to relay the stories of their narrow escape, thanks to Oreo.

That night while Jefferey was in bed, Oreo and Trooper were lying down at the bottom and Trooper said to Oreo that he knew what was going on but as he does all the work around the place, he just wanted her to get some attention for a change. Oreo told him to stop pulling her leg if he had known what was going on, he would have leapt to the challenge. Trooper told Oreo to go to sleep and don’t forget he was older than her as he was three and she was only two.

The following day, Jeffrey left the two dogs out. It had stopped snowing. It would be a couple of days before the snow would clear completely. The only thing was for some reason there was a good bit of sunshine today even though it was still winter. Jeffrey told the two dogs that there would be no long walks until the snow showed some sign of clearing. The dogs weren’t too upset by that news. They knew that they would be back at work real soon.

Jeffrey was of a slim build. He was five foot six inches in height. He had black hair cut tightly into his head. He had a moustache. He always had a black pipe in his mouth. No one had ever seen him lighting it. He said it was a habit. He gave up smoking years ago. He just liked to have the pipe to remind him that he was never to smoke again. He always wore a waistcoat. He always wore black trousers. His shirts were always long-sleeved. The sleeves would be rolled up on a summer’s day. He never wore a tie. He hated ties. He had a brown leather jacket that he didn’t seem to wear much. He said he was never cold. He would only wear these clothes when he wasn’t working. When he was working, he would wear a black t-shirt and black jeans.

They weren’t wrong the day that Jeffrey decided to take the dogs for a long walk before they all headed into the station to report in and start their shift. On this day, Jeffrey said they would go for a walk in the wood that was about twelve miles from their house. He got the two dogs into the car and headed to the woods. He liked walking in these woods, he knew he could leave the dogs of the leads and that Trooper liked running around and fetching things. Oreo knew that there was a river nearby too. This would be good as she could go for her swim.

Trooper was running and fetching sticks to his master and Jeffrey was throwing them for him. Oreo was just walking casually beside Jeffrey. The next time the stick was thrown, it wasn’t what Trooper brought back to Jeffrey. Trooper came running back with a human arm in his mouth and dumped down at Jeffrey’s feet.

Jeffrey radio to the station and told them what one of his dogs had just found. He was told to go to his car and wait for backup. He knew that already as the killer or killers could still be in the woods. He also knew to put the arm into a plastic bag. Jeffrey waited for the backup to arrive. They then proceeded into the woods again with the dogs. Jeffrey gave both dogs the smell of the arm to get a scent of it and told them to go to work. Not far from where Trooper had found the first arm, he found the second arm. He couldn’t find any other parts of the body in the woods. When they got as far as the river, Oreo jumped in and she swam for