The Pierced Heart: a Novel
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There is no sheet to cover her white skin now. Her breast has been pierced, and twists of sinew and muscle and flaccid veins spill from the empty hollow of the ribs to the heart that once beat there. A heart that lies now seeping on her belly. And there on the floor, where her head has rolled, a huge black crow is perched on her forehead, pecking at her eyes.
Sam lurches at the bird which lifts slowly off and makes for the window, its ragged wings beating the stale air.
“Is someone goin’ to tell... me ’ow the bloody ’ell this man got in?” he barks at the attendant. “You there—Madsen, weren’t you supposed to be on duty last night?”
The man blenches. “Yes, sir. I just don’t know how it could have happened, sir—I was only gone for five minutes. I got called upstairs when they were bringing in another corpse, and by the time I got back, well, you can see—”
“Yes, Madsen, I can bloody well see! And was the window open then?”
“Yes, sir, it being so hot, sir.”
Sam looks again at the casement, but for the life of him he can’t see how a full-grown man could have got through that aperture.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
There is no sheet to cover her white skin now. Her breast has been pierced, and twists of sinew and muscle and flaccid veins spill from the empty hollow of the ribs to the heart that once beat there. A heart that lies now seeping on her belly. And there on the floor, where her head has rolled, a huge black crow is perched on her forehead, pecking at her eyes.
Sam lurches at the bird which lifts slowly off and makes for the window, its ragged wings beating the stale air.
“Is someone goin’ to tell... me ’ow the bloody ’ell this man got in?” he barks at the attendant. “You there—Madsen, weren’t you supposed to be on duty last night?”
The man blenches. “Yes, sir. I just don’t know how it could have happened, sir—I was only gone for five minutes. I got called upstairs when they were bringing in another corpse, and by the time I got back, well, you can see—”
“Yes, Madsen, I can bloody well see! And was the window open then?”
“Yes, sir, it being so hot, sir.”
Sam looks again at the casement, but for the life of him he can’t see how a full-grown man could have got through that aperture.
What to read after The Pierced Heart: a Novel?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Lynn Shepherd to read onlineMoreLess
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