Blue Murder
No romance or no physical intimacy at all.
Closed door. No anatomical or crude language.
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Blurb
A deputy head teacher is brutally murdered. The only witnesses are an elderly man and a seven-year-old girl. And now the prime suspect has disappeared.
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