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    Water Under The Bridge
    Water Under The Bridge
    Water Under The Bridge
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    Water Under The Bridge

    By Deirdre Verne

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    Sandra Moody has had it. The water keeps rising and there's nothing she can do about it. If the rain doesn't stop, her idyllic summer cabin will be swallowed up by a backlog of runoff and sludge. With a cause to champion, Sandra recruits her neighbors and town officials to find the source of flooding. Sandra's incessant digging ruffles feathers and answers seem to dry up faster than a desert oasis. If not for the mysterious disappearance of her favorite neighbor, she'd be one step away from locking the door and tossing the key.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeirdre Verne
    Release dateJan 6, 2014
    ISBN9780985611217
    Water Under The Bridge
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    Deirdre Verne

    Deirdre Verne is a mystery author with a new book series scheduled for release in Fall 2014. Verne's upcoming trilogy features the first eco-friendly sleuth, CeCe Prentice. CeCe is a Dumpster-diving artist, living a self-sustaining life off the grid until her brother is found murdered at scientific lab on the north shore of Long Island.

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      Water Under The Bridge - Deirdre Verne

      WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE

      A Short Mystery

      DEIRDRE VERNE

      Published by Deirdre Verne at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Deirdre Verne

      Design & formatting by Winged Books

      No part of this work of fiction may be reproduced or transmitted in any form. 

      ISBN: 978-0-9856112-1-7

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      WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE

      I POUNDED THE faded green screen door for the second time. Where the hell could she be? I peered into the Walker cabin, a mere five hundred square feet of living space built from local pine timber and held together with a hodgepodge of rusted nails. Mrs. Walker’s cabin, like my own, was an exact duplicate of the twenty other cabins placed haphazardly around a small center green. A natural fence of Long Island pine trees ten to twenty deep formed a protective circle around our hidden enclave deep in the pine barrens of the East End.

      Mrs. Walker, I shouted earnestly trying to convey a sense of urgency. The water is rising fast. I came to bring you over to Stanley’s place. I turned around and waved over to Stanley shifting his stocky frame restlessly on his covered front porch. He hated Mrs. Walker. Everyone did. He gave me the thumbs up but his jowly face told another story. Stanley’s cabin was comfortably balanced at the top of a burn maybe twenty feet higher than Mrs. Walker’s cabin. A safe haven. One of the few. A handful of the cabins had lost their battle about a year ago and the families headed to higher

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