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The Ugly Man (Short Story)
The Ugly Man (Short Story)
Oct 11, 2024 3:21 AM

Author:P.D. Viner

The Ugly Man (Short Story)

The summer of 1976.

The whole country baking in a heatwave. And in a sleepy Derbyshire village a man, known locally as the Ugly Man, walks into his local with a claw hammer and in front of everyone brutally murders the young woman behind the bar.

For Patricia Lancing, juggling the demands of being a wife and mother alongside her desire to get recognition as an investigative journalist, this could be the case that makes her career...

If she survives it.

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