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Overrush [A Retrievers Short Story] [MultiFormat]
eBook by Laura Anne Gilman
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eBook Category: Fantasy/Mystery/Crime
eBook Description: Wren Valere is a Retriever, a thief who uses magic to 'retrieve' items for her clients. Her motto is 'Get the Job Done.' But when she stumbles across a dead body during the execution of a job, something makes her think it might be more important to find out who killed the man--and *how.* With her partner Sergei, they investigate--and come up against a terrible, deadly secret... [Set in the 'Retrievers' universe.]
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Murder by Magic, ed. Rosemary Edghill, 2004
Fictionwise Release Date: August 2006
This eBook is part of the following series:
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [222 KB], eReader (PDB) [35 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [22 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [20 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [80 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [93 KB], hiebook (KML) [106 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [48 KB], iSilo (PDB) [18 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [23 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [51 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [33 KB]
Words: 6429
Reading time: 18-25 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
OverrushWren Valere looked at the body sprawled in the alleyway in front of her and wanted to throw up.
Okay, she thought, dead body. Not your problem. All you have to do is go on past him, hand the painting over to the client, and the damn job's done. It was twenty feet, tops. All she had to do was keep walking down the alley, slide past the dark green dumpster, and go home. Nothing to it. Piece of cake.
Once she stepped over the body face-down and blocking the alley.
"Bodies were not in the contract," she muttered, wiping the sweat off her forehead with the back of one latex-gloved hand. She thought about taking a deep breath, then looked around her surroundings and thought better of it. "Right. I can do this."
Not that there was any other option. The Wren never left a job unfinished. That was the reputation her partner sold to nervous, twitchy clients. He talked the talk, and now she had to walk the walk...
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