The Grendel Curse
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  • Reads 3,767
  • Votes 80
  • Parts 20
  • Time 1h 44m
Complete, First published Jun 27, 2014
When Chief Superintendent Jack Spike's head was discovered impaled
on the iron railings in front of the Tower of London a ripple of horror 
swept across England.  This ripple grew to tsunami proportions when it 
was leaked out that a note had been stapled to his tongue, written by his
own hand and in his own blood, pleading that Bill Watson and Jennie 
Holmes be assigned to the investigation into his murder.

Detective Inspector Bill Watson had retired from Scotland Yard after 
being shot and wounded during the Xmas Murders' case where 
identical twins calling themselves the Scalpel Sisters tortured and 
killed members of the English Establishment..  His assistant, Detective 
Sergeant Jennie Holmes, resigned from the force and left for the USA 
with her lover, Professor Tony Bush, to get married and settle down 
on his university campus.  The Scalpel Sisters were shot and suffered
multiple injuries by the henchmen of the Russian oligarch, Biteya 
Gonadsoffski.  He was arrested and deported to the USA to face charges 
relating to drug crimes, funding terrorist organizations and murder.

When a new outbreak of serial killings seem to be the work of a copycat 
killer but this time aimed at an erratic, global pool of victims, Bill Watson 
and Jennie Holmes are persuaded to assist with the investigation.

A/N This is the follow-up to the Xmas Murders.
Reviews "The greatest work of fiction since the LibDem manifesto" -Nick Clegg
"Eddie Welch has done it again" - Lavatory door, Basingstoke
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