Beautiful Lie the Dead

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Barbara Fradkin. Beautiful Lie the Dead

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BEAUTIFUL

LIE

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Constable Whelan had just come on duty when the missing person’s call came in. Despite it being the holiday season, he had expected the graveyard shift to be dead because a blizzard was howling outside. He’d barely made it into work with his four-wheel drive. Temperatures were frigid, the winds were brutal, and the snow was slanting in sideways sheets. Snowdrifts made the side roads impassable. No one, not even the most drunk and determined reveller, would be out tonight. For the second night in a row, school pageants and Christmas concerts had been cancelled, neighbourhood potlucks rescheduled and holiday shopping put off for another day.

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