The Face Of Death (Barney Thomson) (8 page)

He had great trouble dislodging it, even after he had discovered its existence, in the end having to carefully use a small branch collected from the forest.

Once retrieved, he straightened out the note and shone the torch upon it. It was square, a few inches across, the paper yellowed and worn by time. There was one line, handwritten in a tiny scrawl:

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slaughtered for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.

'Shit,' he muttered. 'These damned people have always got to bring religion into it.'

Then he pulled a small plastic bag from his pocket and carefully placed the paper inside. He switched off the torch, looked around at the cold forest in the dark of an early evening in the Highlands in Scotland in winter, then turned and began the walk back down into the town.

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arney Thomson — awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber — lives a life of desperate mediocrity. Shunned at work and at home, unable to break out of a twenty-year rut, each dull day blends seamlessly into the next. However, there is no life so tedious that it cannot be spiced up by inadvertent murder, a deranged psychopath, and a freezer full of neatly packaged meat. Barney Thomson's uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer...

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#4 The Resurrection Of Barney Thomson

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#6 The Haunting of Barney Thomson

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Novels

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Barney Thomson Novellas

The End of Days

The Face Of Death

Barney Thomson, Zombie Killer

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Short stories

The Case Of The Glass Stained Widow (DCI Jericho)

Santa's Christmas Eve Blues

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