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The Dying Place
Luca Veste
A FATE WORSE THAN DEATHDI Murphy and DS Rossi discover the body of known troublemaker Dean Hughes, dumped on the steps of St Mary’s Church in West Derby, Liverpool. His body is covered with the unmistakable marks of torture.As they hunt for the killer, they discover a worrying pattern. Other teenagers, all young delinquents, have been disappearing without a trace.Who is clearing the streets of Liverpool?Where are the other missing boys being held?And can Murphy and Rossi find them before they meet the same fate as Dean?
LUCA VESTE
The Dying Place
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Source ISBN: 9780007525584
Ebook Edition © October 2014 ISBN: 9780007525560
Version: 2015-07-27
Dedication (#ulink_45f9257b-4e6c-5666-8a52-717a9abb9d0f)
For Angelina ‘Angie’ Veste
11/04/1936 – 07/05/2014
My nana. My nonna.
She loved her family and her family loved her.
Contents
Cover (#u81f8eec7-fff5-54ac-af17-530801d9779b)
Title Page (#u8eee9b65-55cb-5721-9567-43fc95964906)
Copyright (#u34aac26a-bbb2-5481-93fa-cd678e245b77)
Dedication (#u902e6d7c-1c8d-519d-9f0c-5cf99d049f69)
Now (#u16b4a411-d119-56a3-85e0-5573581056a4)
Before (#ua93aff7c-696d-59b0-a94d-edb151cbb204)
Part One (#ud5a8794f-ca7d-5e77-b205-af3550668c52)
Chapter 1 (#ua774fc99-d0d4-5ee3-b461-f8ac26c86bca)
Chapter 2 (#u760a724c-baa9-5406-8f48-9b6214265c69)
The Farm: Six Months Ago (#ude8028a9-65be-5837-ad73-6b9ab6b67939)
Chapter 3 (#u2908180c-038d-55bb-881f-17b2e347c1b7)
Chapter 4 (#u5eb6e40e-2ba5-572f-849a-0ea4d1c6d5fa)
Chapter 5 (#u4314c8b3-7a2c-533c-a038-7ab7bb0f6be8)
Chapter 6 (#ufb4ea7b1-eea5-5ea3-925c-7a73886ececa)
The Farm: Five Months Ago (#ua1b81287-71b4-5f0a-8c91-66cf0ef8efed)
Chapter 7 (#u43e07254-2f13-5b3a-b401-6f94ec834f19)
Chapter 8 (#u030dcbde-e7ba-5ae2-ad5a-8442fccfd71f)
Chapter 9 (#u5e972e2b-6d95-5301-9dda-a1aa14b66e79)
Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)
The Farm: Three Months Ago (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)
The Youth Club (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)
The Farm: Three Days Ago (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)
The Farm: Two Days Ago (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)
The Farm: Two Days Ago (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)
The Farm: Yesterday (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)
Home (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)
The Youth Club (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Home: Six Months Ago (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 27 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)
Toxteth: Liverpool 8 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 29 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 30 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)
Bootle (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 32 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 33 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 34 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 35 (#litres_trial_promo)
Peter (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 36 (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)
In Conversation with Luca Veste (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
By the Same Author (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
Now (#ulink_26c50eeb-ce74-584a-a552-0c7b80493571)
No one believes you. Nothing you say is the truth. They know it every time you open your mouth and start speaking, hoping to be believed. Everything is just a lie in disguise, dressed up nice, trying to be something it’s not.
Mutton dressed as lamb.
That’s just how it is. You go down the social – or the jobcentre as they call it now, although that’ll probably change to something else soon enough – and try to explain why you’re still worth sixty quid a week of taxpayers’ hard-earned money. Trying to justify yourself even though you haven’t worked in years. Get that look which seeps into you after a little while.
I’ve heard it all before, love.
There’s no let-up. Being judged at every turn. Lucky enough to have more than one kid? Unlucky enough to lose your part-time job working the till at some shitty shop? For your fella to piss off with some slag from around the corner? Doesn’t matter, shouldn’t have had more kids than you can afford. Doesn’t matter that you’re a single parent – I’m paying your benefits.
You live on a council estate, on benefits, and that’s it. You’re scum. Do not pass go, here’s a few hundred quid to pay some dickhead landlord who thinks five ton isn’t too much for a terraced house that’s overrun with damp. Mould growing on the walls if you dare put any furniture too close to it.
Your kids then become scum as well. Shit schools, shit kids. Bored with life, constantly pissed off because you can’t afford the latest frigging gadget that Sonyor Apple put out. Every six months without fail, something new that every other kid in the school has, that they can’t be without.
