Ritual
Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley—haunted by the recent mysterious death of her parents—closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there’s no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim wa...
Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley—haunted by the recent mysterious death of her parents—closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there’s no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim wa...
