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Authors: Marjorie Eccles

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She had been as confounded as anyone when she learned that Jasie had disappeared. It upset her. Almost as much as her own inexplicable lapse of failing to consider how his mother's death would affect him.

âThe police are on their way, Jane.' Alyssa's voice was tremulous. She was more upset than Jane. âThey suspect, but they don't know.'

Jane Arrow said nothing. The sun glinted through the trees on to the windows of The Watersplash below, the pathway down to it was steep and rocky, the romantically ruined bridge spanned the stream as it ran swift, falling in a shining curl over the lip of the stepped fall, down into the pool below. She stood up but shook her head as Alyssa turned to go back to the house.

Alyssa left her standing there, a tiny upright figure in sturdy shoes and a sun-hat, and when she reached the bend of the stream, she heard the splintering crash as the rotten planks of the bridge gave way. When she turned back, there was no sign of her friend.

Also by Marjorie Eccles

Cast a Cold Eye
Death of a Good Woman
Requiem for a Dove
More Deaths Than One
Late of This Parish
The Company She Kept
An Accidental Shroud
A Death of Distinction
A Species of Revenge
Killing Me Softly
The Superintendent's Daughter
A Sunset Touch
Echoes of Silence
Untimely Graves

KILLING A UNICORN. Copyright Â© 2002 by Marjorie Eccles. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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eISBN 9781466822696

First eBook Edition : June 2012

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Eccles, Marjorie.

Killing a unicorn / Marjorie Eccles.â1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-312-32411-1

EAN 978-0312-32411-7

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Fiction. 3. Missing childrenâFiction. 4. BrothersâFiction.