Curiosity Killed The Chicken

Curiosity Killed a Chicken is a crime novel thriller/mystery about Valerie Brading — a seasoned detective in her forties. She struggles to exist in the 21st century policing landscape.— she's overly assertive and unpleasantly masculine. She investigates the disappearance of a poor-little-rich boy who lives on a farm and keeps a pet chicken.

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