The Butcher's Daughter
Victoria Glendinnig
"Forgive me Father, for I have sinned."
"Forgive me Father, for I have sinned."
"As the team unpacked things from the SUV and distributed them for carrying down the trail, I walked a little way off to grab a cigarette."
"Gideon Crew sat in the fourteenth-floor waiting room of Lewis Conrad, MD, restlessly drumming the tips of his left fingers against the back of his right wrist, waiting to find out whether he would live or die."
"The woman who found the body was a widow of around fifty called Ólafía."
"He would not be long for this world."