"Do you have any suggestions for the blurb Kingsley?"
Wright questions, not once lifting his gaze from the typewriter.
"I believe I have one, Wright."
Wright smiles
"An what may that be, you're always so dramatic with anything I find I can hardly trust you with simplicity"
Wright turns around from the typewriter and smirks at Kingsleigh.
Kingsleigh hurumphs
"first story, first case first flat."
"That it?, That's not very intriguing."
"Well I don't see why it needs to be intriguing why, it's only our case files"
"- and this is why I write the case files, if you wrote them-why they'd never be complete!"
Wright chuckles.
Kingleigh makes as if to actively ignore that statement and goes to sit down.
"An anyway, as apprentices at The New Scotland Yard, I never thought that we'd get dragged in with all of this Moriarty business."
"what did you expect? we bought the flat under Sherlock Holmes!"laughs Wright.
"And as the man himself would say, now the game is afoot!"exclaims Kingsleigh in the loudest of voices imaginable.
"always a man for the drama that one."
A criminal mastermind makes a bold move against a wealthy client to put himself in a position to retire in comfort. He has no idea what he's up against when a young widow, desperate to make ends meet, sets her eyes on earning the bounty set on his head.
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Newly widowed housewife Melody Scott needs to earn some major cash, fast. When her bright and busy children learn that a priceless ruby bracelet has been stolen and a six-figure reward is being offered, they convince her to try to do what the police, museum security, and the best private investigators have failed to do. Working against them is a notorious thief who has met people from around the world, but who has never once encountered a woman like Melody Scott. When the sweet innocence of the Scott family clashes against criminal forces more dangerous than they ever imagined, Melody is all too aware that a mom's got to do what a mom's got to do to protect her family.
The Widow, Melody Scott is a 2021 Watty Award Winner!
Content Warning: This story does contain depictions of stalking behavior.